[Zhang Fei]

[The hard to believe part is the interview. I didn’t go on one
and I don’t know of any of the schools I considered applying to didn’t have them either.]

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The highly selective schools want to be sure that if you say you’re black you really are, to qualify for all the mulligans (and the full ride) they give you. They also want to make sure that not too many Asian half-breeds with white fathers (and last names) sneak in by checking off “white” under race/ethnicity, thus bypassing the higher admissions standards for Asians. The interview is the only way to be sure.

[BobL]

I tend to agree...I think the interviews are more to find FLAWS with the students, than to find qualified students. And if a student isn’t well-prepared for the interview, they will get clobbered, as most other students at competitive colleges are well-prepared (via expensive coaching). I learned that the hard way, being rejected from top schools, only to be accepted by the one top school that I did NOT interview with. I made sure my kids didn’t make that mistake!

I also agree regarding the quotas...my kids are half Asian, but you’d never know it with their names - I think it helped a lot that the schools had no clue about their mom’s background.