<p>i didn’t contact my person for an interview yet!! is it too late?? the site says the deadline for interviews is dec 15 = TOMORROW!!!</p>
<p>should i still email?</p>
<p>how bad is it to not do an interview? (i’m worried i’m not going to be very good at it…)</p>
<p>Yes, you should still request an interview. Just be yourself and do your best to convey your interest as honestly as possible. You’ll do better than you think.</p>
<p>You already know that Stanford is not MIT: apples v. oranges. TRY not to freak too much.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>You might as well try to contact the interviewer. There’s no reason not to.</p>
<p>Oh, and if you ever get too busy freaking out, throw on some light punk rock, like Harvey Danger or Green Day or something, anything. You’ll feel way better.</p>
<p>yes contact… I heard the date is only so that many people do not contact the same interviewer like the day before the interviews are due… so you should have no problem</p>
<p>Don’t worry about the interview…at the beginning of mine, I was so nervous that I was probably visibly shaking (I was internally shaking haha!). Just try to strike up a nice conversation and show how you’re excited by math/science/eng., and you will be totally fine :-)</p>
<p>16% acceptance rate for people who do interviews (or were not able to because there was not an interviewer in their area)
6% acceptance rate for people who do not</p>
<p>yup. so it DOES make a difference… contact that interviewer!</p>
<p>but also, stanford and MIT and VERY different schools. especially with what they’re looking for. Stanford is so EC based and MIT is more who-you-are based (which is why they like interviews).</p>
<p>My son is not the only person he knew 3 years ago who was rejected by Stanford and is now an MIT student. </p>
<p>Schedule an interview.</p>
<p>thanks for the advice 
i called and left a message so hopefully he’ll call back… if not, will they at least know i tried? so i don’t fall in the 6% category?</p>
<p>r u guys talking about MIT interview? or Stanford?</p>
<p>MIT interview</p>
<p>Stanford doesn’t do interviews.</p>
<p>You should certainly try to set up an interview, but be aware that the deadline for contacting an interviewer to set up an interview was the first of December (the 15th is the deadline for actually having the interview). </p>
<p>Those deadlines can be waived (for example I have a couple of interviews that I am doing next week), but particularly in the run up to Christmas, most EC’s are not thrilled about being contacted for the first time now. In our region we get one or two last minute requests per year, and we usually try to accommodate them, but expect to be asked why you waited until now to contact your EC. “I expected to get into Stanford, but I didn’t so now I am panicking and am now willing to take the MIT admissions process seriously” is not an answer calculated to impress a busy EC.</p>