<p>At the end of mine, my interviewer basically told me that I’d fit in better at Stanford.</p>
<p>Excuse me while I go drown in my bathtub.</p>
<p>@ojodeltigre: your interviewer is not making the decision. The admissions committee is. If your interviewer thought you were of the caliber of Stanford, then you are also of the caliber to be admitted to Harvard, and should have nothing to worry about. Go take a nice warm bath and enjoy, but don’t drown yourself. :D</p>
<p>ojo - Stanford is stellar, and is as prestigious as Harvard, if not less pretentious. It’s effectively Harvard on the west coast. Maybe he said this because you like startups or something. Don’t throw it out - I bet you will love Stanford at least as much when you visit the campus (many if not most agree that it blows Harvard’s campus out of the water - just take the virtual tour on their website).</p>
<p>It went well. Only lasted 40 minutes because there were other interviewees waiting.</p>
<p>Yes. I noticed. My interviewer is a biologist. She went to the same school I went to and we had the same math teacher. She was in the same neighborhood that I volunteered at…</p>
<p>Has anyone from GTA, ON, Canada got their interview yet?</p>
<p>what type of questions did they ask?</p>
<p>I had an interview with two alums (Holy…) they say it helps to create a more comprehensive understanding of me…</p>
<p>I had interview last saturday, it lasted 75minutes most questions are based on application. At the end of interview the alum took a picture for me. Is it special? Did you all take picture by the interviewer?</p>
<p>@Solowhale: That’s not the norm, but it’s also not unheard of. The real reason is not so much that they want a more comprehensive understanding of you. Rather, you’re probably in the rare area/region (Boston/New York City) where there’s more alum demand to volunteer as an interviewer than there are applicants. At the Harvard Club of New York for example, interviewers almost always double up. The admissions office wants alum to feel involved, so one way to ensure everyone gets to interview is by having two alumni, quasi panel, interview one applicant at the same time. </p>
<p>@Salmon2011: That sounds slightly creepy. It’s certainly not usual protocol…</p>
<p>“Also, did any of you notice that your interviewer had similar interests as you? I ask, because I’ve heard from a former regional coordinator that an RC typically tries to match the interviewer’s interest with that of the students… Although that is not always the case.”</p>
<p>I loved my interviewer! Turns out that she wrote many papers on The Beatles, which was the subject of my IB Extended Essay. Also, she said that if she had a son, she was going to name him the same name as me, so I’m thinking that was a plus! :)</p>
<p>“Also, did any of you notice that your interviewer had similar interests as you? I ask, because I’ve heard from a former regional coordinator that an RC typically tries to match the interviewer’s interest with that of the students… Although that is not always the case.”</p>
<p>Yep- I was interviewed by an MD/PhD (who got all 3 of his degrees from Harvard!), and I’m pursuing a DVM/PhD.</p>
<p>I had an oncampus interview with an admissions officer. It went well until she started bugging me about where I was applying Early Action… She specifically asked if I was applying to Stanford.</p>
<p>Edit: I haven’t applied yet, this was just something I scheduled when I visited colleges.</p>
<p>@Salmon2011 They asked a Starbucks waiter to take a picture of all of us…</p>
<p>@WindCloudUltra Umm, I am actually from mainland China and I had the interview in Shanghai…I did not even know I would meet two alums before. I was thus pretty much stressed at the interview, both alums are fluent in Chinese and they even told to me to speak in Chinese in the later part of the interview…I guess I simply screwed it up :(</p>
<p>@salmon, did you ask the interviewer to take a picture of you? Or did the interviewer take a photo & keep it for him/herself? ughhh if that’s the case!</p>
<p>Just about resumes:</p>
<p>Mine did help for the Harvard interview. They want to know your SAT/GPA as it helps with one of the ranking categories (academics or academic aptitude or something). Giving her the resume was the least awkward way of accomplishing that. Also, I emailed it before the interview, so she had looked it over, saw my research, and was interested in talking about that. </p>
<p>Research abstracts aren’t as necessary. Most people, unless they know the field your research was in, won’t understand the technical stuff. Just be able to explain it simply enough that your little sibling could understand it. Now, if you get an interviewer who knows your subject, I imagine that would be scarier, kinda like the ISEF judges.</p>
<p>I just had my interview yesterday. Looks like mine was one of the last before the report is due.
It was more of an interview than a conversation, since I was talking 75% of the time. We talked about the usual stuff, e.g. subjects I took, my intended major, why Harvard, etc.
He asked to see both my common app essay and supplement essay before the interview, and then asked for hard copies at the beginning of the interview as well (I did bring just in case). Is it strange?</p>
<p>The due is Dec.1st?</p>
<p>I havent had my interview for early t_t does that mean auto-rejection
?</p>
<p>I had my RD interview last night. I agree with waitingforivy that the resume helped. The alum called me on the phone and told me that the interview would last 45 minutes. The actual interview was one of the best that I’ve had so far. It lasted 1.5 hours and my interviewer was a woman lawyer and she was very engaging and interested in the things that I had to say. It was the closest to a conversation as compared to my other interviews. She obviously loved her alma mater and sold me on the school.</p>