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33. Admission interviews

Maturity, motivation, outside interests, the sort of thing admissions committees are there for. In Germany, the admissions committee is a computer or a chart.

these things are important. but students who get good grades and test scores already tend to be the most mature and motivated to do well in college. the admission interview seems rather redundant because when the student has good grades it shows they already possess these qualities.

an average size university admits hundreds of new students every year, so it requires a huge amount of time and expense to interview every potential candidate. lets say 3,000 students apply for the fall semester at X University but the school only has 300 spaces available. can you imagine the amount of time and resources it would take to personally interview each of the 3,000 applicants?

German schools are good at keeping costs down (ie: no admission interviews) so they can provide high quality education at little or no cost. but apparently that's not the goal at schools in the US, where the the costs keeps skyrocketing every year.