Harvard Interview
I recently received notification of a Harvard Interview I have scheduled for tomorrow! Does it mean anything this late in the cycle...decisions come out in three weeks. I know it's not an auto-accept type of thing, but my guess is I haven't gotten rejected yet which is insane????
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I'm not an admissions officer but nor have an "in" with anyone at Harvard. What this tells me are the following:
1. Harvard probably received a record number of Regular decision applications.
2. Havard alumni who conduct these interviews were most like oversubscribed due to a record amount of applications.
3. Getting asked to interview is not necessarily a good or bad thing and is more likely a function of the availability of interviewers and the volume of applications.
4. On the neutral side of things, getting an interview this late in the admissions cycle when 722 (or 1/3) have already been admitted SCREA and another 1/2 (1000) probably have already been selected through the RD process, means that you were not the strongest candidate for them in the first or second readings but still in the running. So there are less than 250 spots left or less, and the decision will happen relatively quickly after your interview. Therefore you have to be on your A+ game tomorrow, not your A- B+ game but your A+ game.
Good luck.
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That's interesting. It went really really well, from what I can tell, but my interviewer mentioned they hadn't even finished interviewing everyone they want for my region which I found odd.