I have a theory - wondering if this lines up with anyone else’s experience:

For the interview - I feel like the “for sure” candidates are more likely to be interviewed by a student, whereas the on the fence candidates are more likely to be interviewed by the admissions team.

I only say this because I was waitlisted by all my interviews with admissions team and accepted by all my interviews with students - anyone else have a similar experience or am I plotting a conspiracy?

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You’re assuming that they’re far more coordinated than they are. It’s almost always done by ease of scheduling the interview with factors such as location and interviewer availability playing the biggest factors

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Leave it to McKinsey to have the most useful well thought out answer. It’s another one of my conspiracies

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Didn’t even know there were schools that did both adcom and alumni interviews, thought it was one or the other?

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