Hi there! I’m not sure if you’ve seen this, but the Yale page talks a bit about how this year interviews are going to be different:
“During the 2020-2021 admissions cycle, all interviews will be conducted virtually. Because of limited virtual interviewing capacity, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions will prioritize interviews for students for whom the Admissions Committee needs more information. Interviews will remain optional, and students who do not receive an interview will not be disadvantaged.”
(Link: https://admissions.yale.edu/interviews 19)
From what I understand (but I could be wrong), interviews mostly get organized by a different office, and while people who don’t pass an initial pass perhaps of people with good enough applicant caliber don’t move on to having the possibility of getting an interview, most people still do. I know that, at least from anecdote, there are still tons of people who get in because the admissions officers had a strong enough idea of who the applicant was without an interview write-up on them. I think this is going to be emphasized this year, as the statement they put out suggests, and perhaps receiving an interview request is a sign that your application wasn’t strong enough to be in the strongest category of applicant, but I don’t want to read TOO much into it haha. Another factor is alumni availability, and if there aren’t alumni in your area available for a lot of interviews, they aren’t given them.
Good luck with your application!
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