The Brown Daily Herald

Alumni interview guidelines hard to uphold

In February, then-high school senior Matt Sarafa posted a YouTube video recounting a disturbing interaction with his Brown alumni interviewer. Sarafa claimed that his alumni interviewer made racist ...
The Harvard Crimson

NAACP Legal Defense Fund Blasts Harvard’s New Alumni Interview Guidelines in Letter to Garber

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund issued a firm rebuke of Harvard College’s new admissions guidance banning alumni ...
Business Insider

I'm a college-admissions expert. Here's how to ace the alumni interview and get accepted to the college of your dreams.

As a college-admissions expert, I know students often dread the alumni interview. I tell all my students to prepare answers for the first and last questions. But the middle of the interview should ...
The Daily Pennsylvanian

Diya Choksey | When the college interview dies, so does the human

No matter how much I try to scrub my mind clean, the residual smudges of my college application process still resurface when I least expect them. Sometimes it’s at 3 a.m., waking up convinced I made a ...

Harvard’s new guidelines ban race references in alumni interviews, NAACP LDF calls the policy unlawful

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund has slammed Harvard University's new admissions guidance, deeming it 'unlawful and ...
The Daily Pennsylvanian

‘End of an era’: Penn alumni, education experts reflect on termination of admissions conversations

On July 16, Penn announced that its 2025-26 undergraduate admissions process would no longer include conversations with alumni, sparking mixed reactions from members of the Penn Alumni Ambassador ...
The Harvard Crimson

Harvard Tells Alumni Interviewers Not to Consider Race and Ethnicity of Class of 2028 Applicants

Following the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down affirmative action in higher education admissions, Harvard has instructed alumni interviewers to not take an applicant’s race or ethnicity into ...