<p>forest2000: hopingdad is quoting a blog written by a current Harvard alum volunteer interviewer. I found that nugget of info to be interesting as well.</p>
<p>Who has to power to deleting a thread? Can this thread be terminating if someone doesn;t like the flow of conversation.</p>
<p>hopingdad: As far as I am concerned that is absolutely untrue.</p>
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<li><p>I was contacted for interview the day after I submitted my application. I am a qualified applicant (2310 SAT, URM), but I highly doubt that my application was reviewed and deemed strong enough in 1 day.</p></li>
<li><p>I have a friend with a 1600 (out of full 2400) SAT who applied, and like me was immediately contacted for an interview.</p></li>
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<p>We both live in Los Angeles. These things lead me to believe that interviews are either given to everyone, or are given randomly if the number of interviews has indeed been lowered.</p>
<p>As for the missing post:</p>
<p>I’m sure all of you have read the “help and rules” when you first joined. (note sarcasm because I certainly did not.)</p>
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<p>hopingdad- Technically your post 736 is an infraction. Maybe CC will not care but in my early membership after a post with a link was deleted I was admonished for attempting to circumvent the screening similarly.</p>
<p>forest2000-moderators have the capability of deleting posts and yes on occasion they have deleted threads.</p>
<p>As for that individual’s posts, I had personally looked at his/her history and I only found one that did not include a link to his her blog. As some point, it becomes “advertising” instead of “you might find this interesting”.</p>
<p>If you are curious about what we as CC members have all agreed to, here is the link to the “help and rules” page: [College</a> Confidential - FAQ](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/faq.php]College”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/faq.php)</p>
<p>I’m not applying to Harvard but I’m just curious, is an interview required for admissions?</p>
<p>Nope, it’s completely optional, and not having one doesn’t hurt your chances.</p>
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<p>T26E4 & Hamburglar, the harvardintervewer’s note re. ‘fewer’ interviews could be local/regional instead of university-wide. the “Harvard Interviewing Committee” sounds to me as regional/local committee. So, IMO now, she is talking about her locality rather than a general Harvard college policy. Again, this is my opinion now (before, I was under the impression that this may be a collegewide policy).</p>
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smoda, I understand. I wanted to cite the original source when quoting …</p>
<p>np, it just seemed like many were not understanding why the posts containing links to the interviewers blog were gone</p>
<p>I just got contacted for an interview (submitted app + supplement on 31st), and it turns out my interviewer is an attorney, with his own company.</p>
<p>I am looking to go more into the math and science area, so it looks like there will be a lot of awkward moments since our interests don’t really mix…should I decline or accept the interview? It’s not that I don’t want to meet with him, but I just feel like we won’t have a lot to talk about.</p>
<p>I don’t think it should matter. I’m a prospective math/science major as well and my interviewer majored in English. The interview was amazing</p>
<p>^ just be prepared to tell/show your story no matter what the interviewer’s background. relax, be alert, but show respect and humility. at the end of day, only 5 or so will be accepted and 95 will be rejected. so, unless you have a clear hook, just enjoy the moment, your goal is to have this interview report act somewhat positively in your app, but do not let this report to act negatively. i wonder what harvard’s scoring system, if any, is. But yale i hear they give 5 or 6 for most, and less than 5 raises red flag for adcom to scrutinize the app more closely. unless you bomb it, it will be your essays and stats and ECs and relative competition among applicants with background qualities similar to yourself that will determine your fate.</p>
<p>Wong, take the interview. Firstly, it’ll hurt you if you were offered one and didn’t take it. Secondly, you’ll have enough to talk about: remember, people do have three dimensional personalities and their major isn’t the extent to which they have subjects for conversation. I’d wager that you could have nothing in common with your interviewer and he might still be capable enough to carry on a nice, solid, and complete - in terms of evaluation -conversation.</p>
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<p>How do you know he didn’t major in math? You realize that you can major in anything, let alone have interests in anything, and still go to law school, right? And even if you have nothing in common academically, you should still be able to carry on a conversation. Stop being so one-dimensional, it will absolutely be looked down upon by Harvard.</p>
<p>More importantly, in life one needs to be able to handle conversations with people with dissimilar interests.</p>
<p>Adding to my post ^ Dwight nailed it.</p>
<p>Sorry if someone asked this before, but typically, how long after you submit does someone contact you? Still waiting anxiously here…</p>
<p>Keep in mind that interviews will still be going on in March.</p>
<p>whatever you do, do NOT decline the interview. And certainly not for the reasons you state. How do you know there will be lots of awkward moments? He’s not interviewing you to evaluate your math and science skills, but to find out you as a person. And don’t forget he is volunteering his time. Be grateful you got an interview so quickly.</p>
<p>there’s no set time; the wait depends on the regional chair who covers your school. Different chairs work differently; some assign right away, others wait for more volume before assigning. Do yourself a big favor and don’t read anything into how quickly you get scheduled.</p>
<p>^if I were an alum interviewer from this region, I would lose enthusiasm just about now. With so many hours spent in meeting the applicants and in composing the reports, the reports make really minimal impact at the final outcome. For those aplicants whom they put in their glowing recommendation for, the students still get rejects. For my kids’ school, there were zero admits in the past several years and the school district has maybe 40-60 applicants annually and there were 0 admits for several years now. this school district is by far the most competitive school district in this part of the state. even in a case with double legacy (both parents are alums) an applicant got rejected even with very competitive stats and ECs. So, my hats off to all the alums who give their time knowing that the times are mostly for naught in the end.</p>