We partner with third party interview services like Vericant…[because] it really gives us a lot of great insight into what the student is really all about. The part that I typically enjoy the most is really getting into those personal questions: tell me a little more about your interests, tell me a little about a great book that you recently read. Those types of questions where we get to hear from you – just more about yourself and more about your life that maybe we wouldn’t have gotten from a list of extracurriculars or from your well-manicured essay. [The interview] gives us more insight into your day to day you, and that’s what we like to see.

Third party interviews including Vericant…give us a great insight into a student’s writing skills from the writing sample, that’s a very important piece for us, as well as how a student can conduct a conversation in English, which is very important for us too because we don’t have any English as a second language support for our incoming students. So, we expect that everyone will be able to jump into a conversation in an academic and social level including that in very small classrooms that are very discussion-based, even for first year students.

The interview is also a great way for students to be themselves and to showcase their personal strengths that are harder to convey through a piece of writing, and it’s a pleasure because we feel like we are meeting these students through the interview so we strongly recommend it; it’s a very helpful piece.