<p>South Africa - take it you’re from India? Whereabouts? :)</p>
<p>wandilecosa13:yep am from southern India:)</p>
<p>Cool 
Good luck</p>
<p>Representing Tulsa, Oklahoma and I still hasn’t gotten an interview.</p>
<p>I submitted Thursday, October 31, and I still haven’t gotten my confirmation email. I’ve already had my interview, though. Is this weird or abnormal in any way?</p>
<p>I’m in the same boat as you McQueen.</p>
<p>Applied like October 28th, still no interview contact and I’m in Columbus, Ohio, so there should be plenty of alumni around.</p>
<p>PLEASE HELP? I’m an international and I didn’t fill out the last question for internationals. It was a 50 word limit answer and I missed it due to some technical problems experienced with commonapp. So I misread it and skipped. I contacted Harvard but it is Veteran’s Week so they are not answering the phone. I’m so anxious right now I want to die. Is there any chance they can let me answer the question via email or submit changes?</p>
<p>I had my interview today. It didn’t go too horribly. :)</p>
<p>@collegeluva why type of questions did they ask you? Good job by the way.</p>
<p>I had my interview today as well! It went much better than I expected. No typical “Tell me about yourself” or “Why Harvard?” type questions. It was essentially a fluid conversation. </p>
<p>Whether I get into Harvard or not, I enjoyed today’s interview and it gave me more insight about college and my major(s) as a whole. Best of luck to everyone else!</p>
<p>It’s pretty random what questions you’ll get asked. The alum who interviewed me started with “So tell me about yourself,” and I kinda just jumped into my extracurriculars. It wasn’t much of a conversation; he just asked me a lot of brief questions related to my various activities and I would give a lengthy response. He seemed pretty happy with the interview as a whole, so that’s good.</p>
<p>I got “Why Harvard” as well, anybody going into an interview should probably expect that question in some form.</p>
<p>interviewer started off with tell me about yourself. he/she was impressed by my AP and extracurriculars and my upbringing. now, i play the wait game.</p>
<p>^Yup… The days are crawling by…</p>
<p>My interviewer asked me questions that she had clearly planned to ask me, but then also a bunch of questions based on my responses and so it was pretty fluid. There was kind of a “Tell me about yourself” question, but I talked more about where I’m from and my heritage (which itself is pretty interesting!) than my extracurriculars. I did end up talking a lot more about my extracurriculars later, but I didn’t try to stuff them into my “tell me more” answer, which I’m glad I did. We ended up talking a lot about medicine because she literally has the exact same degree and job that I want, so it was nice to be able to connect with that. Did everyone else’s interviewer ask them for their SAT scores? My interviewer told me that it was a question Harvard told them to ask? Overall I thought it went pretty well and my interviewer herself told me I seemed like a very driven young woman and that I “interviewed beautifully” (though this could be something she says to everyone, idk…), so overall I’m pretty pleased. :)</p>
<p>Strange. My interviewer didn’t really ask much about my academics or ask the typical “Why Harvard?”/“Tell me about yourself” questions. I don’t know if that’s necessarily a bad thing (I definitely enjoyed our discussion), but our interview went very smoothly and was all about my intellectual curiosity and ultimately what “makes me tick”.</p>
<p>Soooo I submitted my application just a few hours before the deadline (lol so hip n edgy #procrastination). Anyway, my application portal has all of the requirements received except for the secondary school/dean’s report, although according to the common app, it’s been uploaded by my counselor. Should I be concerned about this? :s Are they still filing?</p>
<p>^ I have the same issue. My counselor submitted my recommendations and transcript some days ago and it still has not shown up in the portal, so I assume that they’re still filing.</p>
<p>I’m just letting you know, that secondary school report can take a long time to show up in the portal. My counselor sent it online a solid 3 weeks ago, and faxed it twice. It just showed up as received yesterday.</p>