<p>Really? I heard I would get an alumni interview too. I think it was with an admissions officer. I kind of hope it wasn’t, because she was very out of it and not focused at all. Very spacey personality. All she asked me was what I thought about the presentation I saw before the “interview.”</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>Hmmm… “not focused at all”?</p>
<p>I guess she’s not an admission officer then… well I think you’ll get an interview!</p>
<p>Yea…I was quite shocked at how spacey she was. Kept jumping from thing to thing, didn’t really answer my questions. To be quite honest, I expected more from Harvard.</p>
<p>This is what I did, from Harvard’s site:</p>
<p>Have an interview with a member of our staff
An interview in Cambridge is not a required part of the application process, but a high school senior who will be in the area may arrange an office interview from June through November. Because of heavy demand and a limited staff of interviewers, we are unable to guarantee an interview.</p>
<p>One of my friends has an interview with a Harvard alumni soon, but a few of my other friend, who applied to Harvard, have not been contacted yet. Is this normal? They’re getting worried now, since another of my friends got her Cornell interview already.</p>
<p>Students will be contacted as late as mid March for their Harvard interviews. The timing depends on the availability of alumni interviewers.</p>
<p>I got an email today from the president of the Harvard Club here, which gave me a number to call my interviewer (an acquaintance of my father, actually) and arrange a meeting.
Should I have a place in mind when I call? If I do need a place to suggest, are there any better than others? (I would just as leave have the interview at his office; Starbucks seems common, but I would think such a public place would be more uncomfortable…)
And if I need to suggest a time, are weekdays or weekends more common? (his office is in town, so there’s no huge drive involved that would make a weekday impossible).
And of course this preparation may be for nothing, he might just tell me how it will go. But I’d hate to start off by messing up the scheduling call, before even getting to the interview.</p>
<p>To emphasize an earlier point, the timing of your interview really has very little to do with your chances for acceptance. I know people in my dorm who had interviews all throughout the application season, and they were all accepted. I myself didn’t get contacted until mid-March, and I’m pretty positive that I was the only applicant from my county. On top of that, my interviewer wasn’t given any information about me ahead of time except my GPA and SAT scores, which he said was odd. I was rather disheartened about my prospects by all of that, but I got in.</p>
<p>Also, don’t let the adcoms influence your perception of the school too much. They really have very little to do with the school in the bigger picture aside from choosing who stays and who goes. If you want a real view, try to talk to someone on the inside of things. I was contacted by a professor of computer science (my intended concentration) while I just happened to be in Cambridge visiting, and he invited me to come chat with him in his office. I learned more about the college in that discussion than I ever did from the admissions process.</p>
<p>“n top of that, my interviewer wasn’t given any information about me ahead of time except my GPA and SAT scores, which he said was odd.”</p>
<p>What I used to get was name, high school, race, whether the person’s parents graduated from Harvard undergrad, phone number, address, e-mail. Occasionally, I’d get info about a couple of interests such as “journalism,” “premed” or I’d get info about a possible major. I never got gpa or score info.</p>
<p>In some other parts of the country where there are hundreds of applicants, I’ve heard that the alumni interviewers get copies of the students’ applications. However, that’s not the norm.</p>
<p>Unlike what’s the case at most other schools, the admissions officers at Harvard are virtually all Harvard grads. The one exception is, I believe, senior admissions officer David Evans, who was brought in in the late 1960s when Harvard decided to boost it’s black enrollment.</p>
<p>I just scheduled my interview for later this week.
I am not sure about the whole policy of interviews. Does every school have them? I just got email from Cornell, but it’s called group meeting.
Does harvard interview every single applicant, if possible? what about internationally? (I am in Canada) I really hope that the fact that I am called to an interview tells me that they are interested in me …</p>
<p>Yay, I had my interview this evening and it was wonderful. Lasted maybe 1.25 hours.</p>
<p>Had my interview today. It wasn’t anything spectacular, but I thought it went quite well. Lasted an hour and a half.</p>
<p>“I really hope that the fact that I am called to an interview tells me that they are interested in me …”</p>
<p>Not to burst your bubble, but Harvard interviews everyone they can. No sign of interest, even internationally.</p>
<p>Is it bad that two other boys in my high school who applied to Harvard got contacted for an interview and already had their interview, and I haven’t yet?</p>
<p>OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG.
Had mine today, and I couldn’t stand my interviewer!</p>
<p>He had no visible personality whatsoever. He just went down the list of sample questions that Harvard provides, jotted down my answers without any real response, and was done in an hour. I mean, I thought it went well in the sense that I said some good things and presented myself well overall, but he was just plain boring.</p>
<p>Is an interview required for Harvard?</p>
<p>^ Yes, if possible</p>
<p>I have my interview tomorrow 
Kinda nervous…</p>
<p>Interviewer: “Hi, I’m (interviewer name)”</p>
<p>Me: I’m fine, thanks.</p>
<p>oops.What can i say? i was nervous, and it was a loud environment. Aside from that i think the interview went well. She asked me to bring a resum</p>
<p>^lol don’t worry. she will write in the report “i think he is partially deaf…”</p>