<p>Hey guys! One question really quick.</p>
<p>I had my MIT interview today and it lasted around 2hrs and 10 minutes…
Is that good? or bad? or does it have any effect?</p>
<p>We really had a good time though. We had ours at a Barnes & Nobles Cafe and he bought me a book at the end after asking me go around the bookstore and choose “a book that I will buy if I had gotten a $25 giftcard from somebody.”</p>
<p>@Tuangpi, sounds like a successful interview! That was nice of him to do that. Out of curiosity, what book did you end up picking? What did you guys talk about? Any specific questions?</p>
<p>I have to decide this weekend if I will contact my EC or not. Ahhhhhhh.</p>
<p>powerbomb, I believe they can only be done via mail. Online submissions would need to be done by teachers, I guess there is a possibility that the teacher could email it if needed.
tuangpi: Unless you’re being interviewed by an admissions officer, interviews have very little weight on your application. What little weight they DO have, though, seems to have gone in your favor. A two hour interview is fantastic! It also sounds like you had fun. If you left the bookstore with a good feeling, then you know how it went.</p>
<p>yeah. he was like, " Ok, this is not part of the interview but I am gonna ask you one more question. Go around this bookstore. Say, if you have gotten a $25 gift card from somebody. I want you to get me the book that you would buy." Then, I was like, “$25??” and he said, " yeah, maybe 5 bucks more or less" then, I brought in a book on the biography of Adolf Hitler and told him that I really admired Hitler for what he did for Germany post-WWI…remember, Germany was in ashes after WWI. And told him that if Hitler had not started the WWII and the Holocaust stuff, he would definitely be the best leader of all time…Then, he said he was really impressed and said b/c of that, he is buying me that book…I was like WOW!!!</p>
<p>Time really went by so fast. I did not notice 2 freaking hours until i looked at my cellphone. I hope i get admitted.</p>
<p>In addition, my EC was like taking notes on everything I said and he had like 7 pages.the college bound loose leaf papers. He even asked me if i wanted to add more that would help in his writing the report. It was also very informal. He was just wearing an MIT shirt compared to my very formal attire.</p>
<p>^holy…7 pages??? my interviewer wrote like…1.5 pages =[ mine was about 40 minutes long. ah =[</p>
<p>Ughh yall are making me nervousss… Trying to make interviews at a few schools too…some schools have never interviewed QB kids, so they’re stuck on what to do for me. But they’re all really nice and they seem invested in helping me out so that’s pretty good :)</p>
<p>Interviews are not going to be a factor in the match process,</p>
<p>@GA2012MOM: how do you know that for sure? I think it depends on the colleges.</p>
<p>@ powerbomb: Yes, teacher submissions may be done online. Your recommender should have gotten an email from the Common App, if you entered his/her email into the CA system. Look around the CA site.</p>
<p>Yeah MOM, do QB/ the schools specify that anywhere? I think I’ve heard that before…just don’t remember where. Maybe it was from you then too XD</p>
<p>Purpleturtle, how do I enter teachers? </p>
<p>All I see is “school forms” at the bottom of the menu, and it seems as though those are only printable.</p>
<p>EDIT: I saw the common app video tutorial and on it, I see that you can add recommenders. I don’t see that on mine. It says “SCHOOL FORMS: OFFLINE”</p>
<p>EDIT EDIT: It says that my school uses Naviance. Okay - but now what?</p>
<p>@ powerbomb: Odd. I clicked on the “School Forms” link at the bottom of the menu, and it allowed me to add teachers. Do you have any schools added into “My Colleges” that require recommendations?</p>
<p>Powerbomb, my school uses Naviance too. You go on your school’s Naviance account and add colleges/teachers there. They submit their recs through Naviance.</p>
<p>and yes, Naviance is stupid. I can only use it for one of my teachers cause my other one is a professor not at my high school…so he can’t use NAviance and has to mail everything…and Questbridge just makes it 10X more confusing =[[[</p>
<p>Yes. Naviance is stupid. But it has some pretty useful features, too. </p>
<p>Also, if I want to send in a supplement recommendation, should I just add a 3rd teacher, or should I send in a separate simple letterhead, instead?</p>
<p>should I take a resume or portfolio with me to the MIT interview???</p>
<p>One more question: I submitted a science and math recommendation through QB. Now I am realizing that that makes me seem unbalanced. What should I do?</p>
<p>My AP Gov teacher is writing a recommendation for me right now, so Should I send that and my boss’s recommendation letter to them as additional materials???</p>
<p>powerbomb- I think you shouldn’t add a 3rd teacher there. I was going to ask for an extra rec…but is it really helpful? I was going to ask my Principal since he knows me pretty well…but what if what he says has already been said by my counselor? so should I??</p>
<p>paki- yea, but for your own knowledge, he probably won’t look at it. just for reference. </p>
<p>and I don’t know about your other question…I had a similar question in that I was wondering if I asked a different teacher would colleges read all 3 recs??</p>
<p>MIT expects one math/science recommendation and one humanities recommendation in its usual application file, but reviews QuestBridge finalists based on what is in their QuestBridge file.</p>
<p>tokenadult, would you think that MIT looks at Questbridge apps highly and maybe even puts them in a select group? (just like its policy on affirmative action)</p>