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Post by Caddyshack4 on Jan 15, 2005 23:16:44 GMT -5
WOW, you know...this thread is extremely enlightening because I just had my interview for Georgetown about 3 months ago, and I was accepted a month ago. When did you get involved with interviewing? Was it soon after you graduated or much later?
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tgo
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Post by tgo on Jan 16, 2005 13:56:17 GMT -5
you can get involved with interviewing as soon as you graduate and if you are really interested, there are current students on the committee at GU, I dont know how they get choosen but it would be a very interesting job to have.
I try to get every fresh alum to start interviewing since they have the best grasp of what campus is really like, also, when a student gets in and must decide between GU, Duke, Northwestern and whoever, it is best for them to talk to the youngest alums to get their questions answered and make them feel confident about their choice.
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Post by Caddyshack4 on Jan 16, 2005 13:57:29 GMT -5
Interesting, sounds like something i'd like to do in about 4 years
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Jan 16, 2005 14:25:48 GMT -5
I didn't get involved until I was out of grad school and established (having had tempory post-doctoral research positions for about five years). So with my first permanent job, I volunteered to help out. There is one young man on our interviewing committee, whom I interviewed, and as soon as he graduated and moved back to Las Vegas, he signed up. Tgo is right about the young blood on the committee. The students that you interview often ask questions that some interviewers that have graduated 38 years ago (me) do not know. I often tell them my experiences and try to relate what I have heard about current campus activities. Having the young alumni is therefore very important. Also, we are asked to contact the successful candidate to offer them our congratulations and to encourage them to seriously consider Georgetown. When I was president of the GU Club of Nevada, we would have student sendoffs for students that were going back as freshman to Georgetown. Usually held in August just before they are supposed to leave, we would invite continuing students from Las Vegas, so that they could talk to the freshmen and give them any help they could. These continuing students are often very enthusiastic about their GU experience, so it is a good orientation for the frosh. I hope they have such affairs in Michigan, CS.
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Nevada Hoya
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Jan 16, 2005 14:28:12 GMT -5
How dumb am I? Last week I scheduled my next interview for Tuesday at 5:30 PST, right in the middle of the GU-Syracuse game. So no appearance in the chatroom for me. I hope you enjoy your first time in the chatroom, CS, especially when we beat the Orange. ;D
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Post by Caddyshack4 on Jan 16, 2005 14:29:54 GMT -5
ohhhh jeez....could you mysteriously become ill?? haha
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Jack
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Post by Jack on Jan 20, 2005 15:33:35 GMT -5
To answer a few questions raised in this thread: -There are nearly 4,500 alumni interviewers in over 200 different committees, covering every state and more than 65 other countries- nearly 95% of applicants are covered by these committees. Interviewers are alumni of any Georgetown school, graduate programs included, and even class of 2004 graduates are currently members. If you are not currently a member of the AAP and interested in joining, you can go here www.georgetown.edu/undergrad/admissions/AAPJoin.htm-The interview report can play an important role in making some admissions decisions, and the statistics do show that students with higher interview scores are indeed more likely to be admitted, but still less than 40% of those who receive a 9 are admitted every year. Interviewers do a nice job of seeing who are the top candidates, but they are not privy to all of the information in an applicant's file and they tend to be a bit more generous with their ratings in an effort to be advocates for "their" candidates. As noted, the timing of the process requires the admissions office to consider applications before some of the interview reports have been received. In those cases, they will go through all of the decisions at the end and look for interview ratings that seem contrary to the decision that was made by the committee, and in a few cases that review may cause a change in the decision, but in most cases the report serves to confirm what the committee already knows. In order for a report to have its maximum impact it should be submitted as soon as possible, but all reports will be considered so long as they arrive before decisions are in the mail. Also, the interview report serves an important function beyond that of helping to make the decisions, and it is that of giving the university a human face to the applicant pool. With nearly 15,000 applicants coming from all over the world and only 15 admissions officers it is impossible for everyone to meet directly with the admissions office, and the AAP is an invaluable resource to allow students to present themselves to the university, an opportunity to be heard so to speak, at the same time giving them a point of contact to learn more about the community and see where their degree might take them. This "PR function" should help all applicants feel more confident in the process and also assists in yielding those admitted. -To contact your regional admissions officer, call (202) 687-3600 during business hours and tell them you are an interviewer and would like to speak to your regional representative- they will be happy to put you through, and admissions officers can give you more information that might help to make decisions make sense. Viewed in a vacuum or in comparing two applicants the decisions seem random at times, but in the context of an entire applicant pool with a need to fill 4 different schools and look to many different constituencies in making up a class, there is a method to it and the admissions officer should be able to give you an idea of that.
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