Asynchronous Interviews Built for Admissions Teams
Video Interviews is a customizable, on-demand interview tool that helps admissions teams hear directly from applicants, without live scheduling. Customize questions, timing, and scoring to surface the attributes that matter most to your program, then let Acuity-trained raters ease review workload or rate on your own.
Go Beyond Grades and Written Applications
Video Interviews helps admissions teams gather authentic video responses that reveal how applicants communicate, think, and present themselves in their own words. Gain richer insight into the qualities your program values most to support more informed admissions decisions.
Why Admissions Teams Choose Video Interviews
Built for higher education admissions
Built by the team behind Casper, Video Interviews combines two decades of admissions research with practical expertise to support structured interviews. Developed in collaboration with higher education institutions, it helps programs implement interviews aligned with admissions best practices.
Design interviews around your admissions process
Design a structured interview experience that reflects your admissions process. Choose your own questions and rubrics or start with Acuity’s research-backed options, then configure timing, instructions, and scoring to fit your program.
Reduce administrative burden
Eliminate live scheduling and review responses on your own timeline. Optional Acuity-trained raters can help manage scoring, making it easier to scale interviews without increasing workload or reviewer fatigue.
Gain richer applicant insight
Go beyond grades and written application materials with unrehearsed video responses that reveal how applicants communicate, think, and present themselves. Gain richer insight into the qualities your program values most to support more informed admissions decisions.
What Makes Video Interviews Different
Research consulting for stronger interviews
Create more effective structured interviews with support from Acuity’s team of research scientists and psychometricians. Co-develop interview questions and scoring rubrics, or start with research-backed options to build an interview process that reflects your program’s admissions goals and aligns with best practices.
Optional Acuity-trained raters
Scale structured interviews without expanding your review team. Acuity-trained raters can review and score applicant responses on your behalf, helping reduce reviewer workload while providing more consistent, standardized evaluations across applicants.
Works seamlessly with Casper
Pair Video Interviews with Casper for a more complete view of every applicant. Together, they provide complementary insights that help admissions teams distinguish between similarly qualified applicants and make more informed, defensible admissions decisions.
Designed to fit your process
No two admissions processes are the same. Configure interview questions, rubrics, timing, and scoring to match your program’s needs, then choose from flexible program-pay, applicant-pay, or hybrid pricing models.
Deepa Upadhyaya
Associate Professor
Mount Royal University
“I think we’re going to get more suitable applicants – and that means less attrition. We only have 16 seats, and we want every one of those students to succeed.”
Frequently Asked Questions
Video Interviews is a customizable, asynchronous interview tool for higher education admissions. It enables applicants to complete structured video interviews on their own schedule, helping admissions teams gather authentic applicant insight, evaluate program-specific competencies, and eliminate the administrative burden of live interviews.
Asynchronous video interviews eliminate the need to schedule live interviews, giving applicants greater flexibility while allowing admissions teams to review responses on their own time. Because every applicant completes the same structured interview, programs can revisit, share, and compare recorded responses to support more consistent evaluation and informed admissions decisions.
Grades and written application materials provide valuable information, but they don’t always show how applicants communicate, think, or present themselves. Video Interviews complements academic performance with authentic video responses, helping admissions teams gain richer applicant insight and make more informed admissions decisions.
Video Interviews complements essays, recommendation letters, transcripts, and resumes by adding a structured, human layer to the review process. With consistent questions and recorded responses, admissions teams can gain a more complete view of each applicant’s communication skills, motivation, professionalism, and readiness while still using written materials as an important part of comprehensive review.
Video Interviews capture authentic, real-time responses that are less susceptible to over-polished or AI-assisted content than traditional written application materials. This gives admissions teams greater confidence in the authenticity of what they’re reviewing while providing additional context for admissions decisions.
Programs can tailor Video Interviews to reflect their admissions process by selecting their own interview questions, scoring rubrics, timing, instructions, and response settings. They can also start with Acuity’s research-backed question bank or work with Acuity’s Research team to co-develop interview content.
Video Interviews can be used at any stage of the admissions process. Some programs use structured video interviews to screen applicants before live interviews, while others replace live interviews entirely or incorporate Video Interviews into customized admissions pathways.
Yes. Many programs use Video Interviews to replace live interviews, while others use it to identify top applicants before inviting finalists to interview in-person. The flexibility allows institutions to adapt Video Interviews to their existing admissions workflow.
Yes. By eliminating live scheduling and allowing responses to be reviewed asynchronously, Video Interviews helps admissions teams interview more applicants without increasing administrative workload. Programs can also use optional Acuity-trained raters to further reduce review demands.
Structured video interviews provide every applicant with the same questions, timing, and instructions, creating a more consistent interview experience. Programs can further support consistent evaluation by using structured scoring rubrics and optional Acuity-trained raters.
Video Interviews and Casper provide complementary admissions insights. Casper offers a standardized measure of social intelligence and professionalism, while Video Interviews gives programs the flexibility to explore additional competencies, experiences, and motivations through structured interview questions. Together, they provide a more complete view of every applicant.
Yes. Video Interviews is designed to complement existing admissions workflows and can be introduced at different stages of the admissions process. Programs use it to replace live interviews, screen applicants earlier, or add structured applicant insight alongside grades, written application materials, and other evaluation methods.
