<p>^just the results.</p>
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<p>My daughter is an '08 grad and she began doing alumni interviews this year. She said coordinator of the interview program in her city advised them to quickly ask the SATs at the beginning of the interview “to get them out of the way,” and if the candidate’s scores are down in the 500s then the interviewer can relax and wrap up that interview in 20 minutes if they so choose. So it looks like they expect a serious interview to be conducted for every candidate with scores in the 600s or higher.</p>
<p>Why can’t Harvard just screen applicants with high scores above 600 before the interviews. That will save everyone time and energy.</p>
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<p>Yeah…but my scores weren’t in the 500s, lol.</p>
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<p>The person who said that is not an official Harvard adcom but a senior member of the local Harvard alumni interviewers. So I think she wasn’t expressing official Harvard policy so much as she was probably relating her long experience that applicants with scores down in the 500s have an extremely low chance of getting accepted - something that will come as no surprise to anyone who has spent much time on CC. </p>
<p>I suspect that Harvard doesn’t automatically screen out people with scores below 600 because they never know when they will uncover that extremely rare gem - an applicant with a very unusual and compelling story despite low SATs, or maybe no SAT scores at all.</p>
<p>Mine was great! My interviewer was a spinal surgeon and I want to major in psychology and philosophy, but that didn’t stop us from sharing a lot of common interests. It turned out that we both love folk music and history, ha. Our conversation lasted for 50 minutes (it was a Friday night, and I’m sure he was anxious to get home to his family) and he jotted down SAT scores and such at the end of the interview. He told me that I was interesting, engaging, easy to talk to, and always stayed on topic. The only thing is that my ardent love for Brown might have come through a little bit when he asked me about taking a summer course there.</p>
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<p>Ditto! I enjoyed it. I was too excited about applying until last night.</p>
<p>I had my interview a week or so ago and it was definitely the best interview I had out of all of my other ones. My interviewer was definitely chill and relaxed… coincidentally, we shared tons of interests/activities. He spent 30min asking me about myself and 30 min answering my questions about his own personal experiences at Harvard and laughter definitely ensued. The last 10 minutes were devoted to recording my stats (GPA, APs, SATs, rank). He said that I was an “interesting” person and that he would write a positive interview report (but I’m doubting how much that will affect my decision, of course :P).</p>
<p>I applyed for harvards summer school program as a high schooler and was accepted. I don’t know what to expect and I’m nervous. What two classes would you recommend for me to take that will give me a taste of what harvard is like? Also, can you explain to me in detail what to expect in harvard classes and how to be successful (B, B+, A) in them? </p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>My interview was kinda… bleh. It didn’t go badly, but it was pretty short, just over half an hour. She was really polite, smiled a lot and laughed a few times but I don’t feel as though I made an outstanding impression.</p>
<p>Oh well, you win some you lose some. She asked me to email her back about what colleges I do get accepted into, did anyone else get asked that?</p>
<p>jlscoutf89: your interviewer should not have asked you to email her about your college acceptances. The Harvard Interviewer Handbook specifically prohibits asking candidates about other schools to which they have applied. You can share that information if you wish, but you shouldn’t do so otherwise.</p>
<p>HELP! I made a huge mistake with the thank you note. I had my interview almost 3 weeks ago (January 22nd) and I realized I sent the thank you note to the wrong address! </p>
<p>I’d rather not explain why I didn’t send it earlier and sound all awkward and silly. Would it be okay if I sent a note this late?</p>
<p>Mine went pretty well. Nothing to write home about, but it was positive. It was kinda short though, because it was at a fairly late time.</p>
<p>I had my interview tonight! It was at a downtown law office but there were a ton of other kids there so it wasn’t as tense as I thought it would be. My interviewer was really nice and we got to talk about a lot of really interesting things. </p>
<p>I’m kinda curious if anyone else on CC was at that interview in the Arts District in Dallas…</p>
<p>dar5995: That’s interesting to hear - every single one of my interviews for the Ivies has asked where else I’m applying… My Harvard interviewer wrote down each school I applied to and then had me explain why Harvard over the other schools. Princeton, Brown and Yale did something similar, too.</p>
<p>The only one who asked me where else I was applying was my Columbia interviewer. It was on that list of questions that they gave her. Harvard, Yale, and WashU didn’t ask me that.</p>
<p>hey I’m international and in the demographic info about me which my interviewer sent to me there was this weird thing “Iv profile:1”. No idea what that means haha, does anyone know?</p>
<p>Mine was quite fascinating. He was really relaxed. However, I noticed it is good to know about current events, and possibly develop a sense of bias to them.</p>
<p>My interview lasted about an hour, and the interviewer didn’t ask me too many questions. He asked about my extracurriculars and what I would do with 10 million dollars, and thats about it. We mainly talked about his experience at Harvard, and why he thought he stood out to the admissions committee at the time. It went pretty well.</p>
<p>Has anyone from Indian sub-continent got an interview call yet?</p>