Alumni Interview Requests ( & Phone Interviews)

Do you have any volunteers who might be interested in conducting a 1 - 3 phone interviews?

We are beginning to receive several requests a day from students who live in areas where we do not have Alumni School Volunteers, and we've also heard from some volunteers in un-chaired areas who are not able to complete the interview for family/personal reasons.

We would like to be able to "have a conversation" with as many students as possible, and so we would like to be able to offer this option to students if they are interested.

I recently spent about 30 minutes on the phone with a young applicant from Montana and the conversation went really well and I learned things about the applicant that I would not otherwise have gleaned from the application and was able to answer the applicant's questions in ways that wouldn't have happened via email. So, while I would prefer to talk individually and directly with every candidate who is interested, this was the next best option, and I think both of us thought that it was very worthwhile.

If you, or some of your volunteers might be interested in talking to students and conducting a few phone interviews, please email Nareth Phin, '07 -- ASC Intern -- at asc-questions@phoenix.uchicago.edu

Please let her know the names of the individuals or whether she should simply send a set number of requests to you as ASC Chair.

Thanks,

Jerry Doyle

P.S. Here's a recent posting on the Uncommon Application blog:
A Posting about Alumni Interviews