<p>If you are being interviewed now, you probably haven’t been rejected yet…</p>
<p>1012, I think you and I are the only people in the world who haven’t received interviews (my whole school did too). I can’t really tell if it’s good or bad, especially because the last-minute interviews could be seen as either PR formalities to rejects or advertising strategies to accepts. As for me, I go to a competitive top 10 magnet school, and I have received likelies from Dmouth, Columbia College, and Duke but waitlists/deferrals from MIT and Yale. Although I would not say I’m the smartest or most accomplished person in my school, my classmates would say otherwise. I guess your plan is to wait two weeks rather than contact your local alumni office?</p>
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I personally do not consider myself a SUPER strong candidate, but I was just wondering. Have these schools interviewed me because they were vaguely interested in me? Or just because there were interviewers available in my area???
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<p>The first alumni interview is conducted regardless of the strength of your application. They try to reach every candidate, but it will not really affect your application one way or another if they don’t end up interviewing.</p>
<p>good luckkk</p>
<p>cc2212 i love this line: Although I would not say I’m the smartest or most accomplished person in my school, my classmates would say otherwise. </p>
<p>it sounds so egotistical, but its true</p>
<p>personally i emailed the local harvard people so i could get an interview. worked for me.</p>
<p>(will still be rejected, of course)</p>
<p>DMAN-e, you were the one hedging bets on the MIT forum, right? How did that work out for you? But back on topic, I have this sneaking suspicion that you had your interview right around when everyone else at your school did anyway, so it was probably a coincidence. Harvard’s website specifically advises people not to contact them. As far as me sounding egotistical, I intended it to mean that everyone at my school is smart, but for arbitrary reasons, people consider me particularly smart (not the other way around). I don’t know what came across to you though.</p>
<p>i made some money. it was good.
i contacted the alumni group, not harvard admissions, btw</p>
<p>and steve you are smart. still sounded egotistical :)</p>
<p>by the way, id like to share with you all that i go to a top five magnet school. and it’s top five because my grade hasnt been factored into the rankings yet. once my 2400 and 8 5’s on the AP get factored in, we will surely be number one. i additionally got 800 on seven sat IIs.</p>
<p>i personally believe i am the smartest, most intelligent, and most handsome person in my school, and my classmates would agree</p>
<p>^^^ I am the smartest person I know, and I say that what DMan-e is proclaiming is false. Having been accepted to the University of Central Florida, I can say with confidence that it is fisiologically inpossible for one to be “the smartest, most intelligent, and most handsome person in my school.” Clearly, I am smarter than you.</p>
<p>Speaking as a fellow classmate in your school, DMan-e, I think I’m going to have to take cc2212’s side on this; what he said was just fact and if you hadn’t pointed out that he was “sounding egotistical” (although he absolutely wasn’t, it was the truth - his classmates would say he is intelligent), none of this would have happened.</p>
<p>There is no “smartest” kid, each person has their individual strengths and weaknesses. It’s just that cc2212 was being honest in that all of his peers would say that he’s smart.</p>
<p>However, DMan-e, if I had a penny for every time you bragged about your perfect SAT scores in seriousness (and yes, it most definitely is bragging whereas cc2212 was stating truth), I would be able to save the American economy single handedly.</p>
<p>flyingpopat,</p>
<p>this is a very mean spirited and distasteful post!!! It’s one thing to banter back and forth based on what’s posted on the board. It’s quite another to bring your knowledge of the person in real life and do character assassination in full view of everybody in the safety of the anonymous cyber space. On cyber space, a person should be strictly judged by how s/he presents him/herself. You violated his/her cyber privacy. You have no right to “out” him/her in this manner. You violated a major, implicit rule of the cyber interaction.</p>
<p>If you have the beef with the guy (gal) in real life, be a man (or a woman), and tell it straight to the face of the offender in REAL LIFE. </p>
<p>What a coward and snitch!!!</p>
<p>Besides, I think DMan-e was mostly joking with a tongue in cheek - perhaps sophisticated humor is too much for you??? Perhaps you are suffering from inferiority complex??? I thought he was funny, and if anything the other guy (gal) was REALLY bragging.</p>
<p>@flyingpopat- I hope you’re being sarcastic/joking/witty because if not, that’s just low</p>
<p>lulz.</p>
<p>10char</p>
<p>Well, you know what? Forget all of you!!</p>
<p>I got a 850 on SAT Math, a 850 on SAT writing (15 Essay, 90 MC) and a 810 on Critical Reading (stupid passage about reading passages messed me up).</p>
<p>ANDD I have a 5.01 GPA, which is 5.3 unweighed.</p>
<p>I took ALL the subject tests and got refused because they thought I was cheating because my answers were so awesome.</p>
<p>Oh, and I took the ACT and got a 40. So you guys can just shut up!</p>
<p>haha, I really am enjoying this thoroughly. DMan-e sought out my posts, found a weird way to interpret something I said, and then started showing everyone IN REAL LIFE (omg!) how I was being obnoxious or arrogant or w/e, when I was really just concerned as to why I didn’t get an interview. Luckily (I guess), 90% of people realized that he was the one being ridiculous because I don’t talk that way. Also, I agree about the cyber-rights thing, but DMan-e addressed me by my real name on here, so I personally find that worse. In any case, this is way out of proportion. DMan-e and I were annoyed at each other for like 20 minutes, and everyone at our school is getting along fine, so please don’t criticize people at a school you don’t know, science fiction. I think we’ve all learned about 5 times over that we misinterpret each other online. I might even be misinterpreting you, so I’m sorry if so. Oftentimes, I joke with friends on here and it can come across differently, so let’s all chill. :)</p>
<p>bag the beef. free clifford harris.</p>
<p>you are all wrong i am the smartest person in the world and one day everyone will bow down to my greatness</p>
<p>No no no no no</p>
<p>Everyone knows that the smartest person/future dictator in the world is</p>
<p>Stewie Griffin</p>
<p>cc2212:
i didn’t mean to offend you with any of this, i was messing around with you in edd. i personally agree with the smarter and whatever comment, but i found the wording funny 
i was just joking around the whole time, i didn’t realize it was upsetting you. clearly you took me seriously when i was talking about it.</p>
<p>flyingpopat/nasaboy:
i wish you had voiced this to me face-to-face rather than over the interwebs so i could tell you how little i care about your opinion in person. i can’t recall us speaking any time in the last three years, and i’m not sure how i had the opportunity to do all this supposed bragging considering we don’t really have classes together, but i’ll take your word for it. </p>
<p>one question though: if at some point in conversation i mentioned a 2400 while you were in the room (perish the thought) how would it be bragging? by your own logic: <a href=“and%20yes,%20it%20most%20definitely%20is%20bragging%20whereas%20cc2212%20was%20stating%20truth”>i</a>*. wouldn’t i be stating the truth too?</p>
<p>ah i do love hating people on the internet.</p>
<p>PS: the american reinvestment and recovery act is $787 billion dollars with the goal of propping up the US economy. assuming we are optimistic and say that will be enough to save the economy singlehandedly, and that you are earning one cent every time i brag, i would need to brag 78 trillion times. it’s been about nine months since i got SAT scores. assuming i took no time to eat or sleep, i would still need to brag 202 million times per second. that would be quite impressive!</p>
<p>i would certainly brag about such incredibly speeding bragging. it’s a major accomplishment.</p>
<p>Umm, yeah. Just to tie up the loose ends, I apologize to science fiction for getting annoyed at him/her. We apparently weren’t all getting along fine, so I was wrong. I do believe that we are now all on a good road to a higher level of peace and unity so that we can all become best friends. </p>
<p>Before I ditch this thread, I would just like to say thanks to everyone who contributed to its original theme (Harvard interview). Thanks even to the joke posters for lightening my mood; ironically, the majority of you probably are or have the potential to be as brilliant as you claim. Most importantly, I apologize for my hasty post that started this whole exaggerated cyber high school argument during these tough college decision times. Sometimes I forget that my well-intentioned words can be misconstrued, especially if I write them on a forum after friend requesting everyone I know in real life (because someone will inevitably read and pick through my comments). I still don’t get why I would want to brag to people I don’t even know, but that’s another issue entirely. The silver lining is that I do believe that good has and will continue to come out of this. I learned a lot about myself and others already, and I have been laughing most of the way through this thread for one reason or another. Good times! </p>
<p>As a final note that brings us slightly back on topic, good luck to everyone as you go to college next fall (interview or no interview). Just remember that good or bad, no college admission decision, GPA, SAT score, etc. should inflate or deflate your sense of self-worth. Yay for cyberpeace > cyberwar!</p>