I'm an alumni interviewer for Princeton, and that evaluation metric reads very similar to ours. I've also experienced the limitations of making an appeals to t

I'm an alumni interviewer for Princeton, and that evaluation metric reads very similar to ours. I've also experienced the limitations of making an appeals to the admissions committee based on adversity and potential and what the school could do for the student. My sense is that the alumni interview only really affects the borderline cases or if you give a truly horrific review of the student for one reason or another. The process selects for a certain mold of person. Diversity happens only within this smaller universe, imo.