<p>Two questions, I am hoping Dan can shed some light on.
My son has not heard from the Admissions rep for our area, and as was instructed wrote to him. Should he follow it up with a phone call, or assume he will not get an interview?</p>
<p>Second question: IB predicted grades went out with the transcript. Are they looked at in addition to the trasncript as well? Do they carry any weight?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>I'm not sure whether your IB predicted grades are actually recorded in the midyear report. If it is, then yes it counts.</p>
<p>yeah i was wondering the same thing about the interview... i sent in my application in mid december, emailed about a week ago because i have not heard anything and did not receive a response. what should i do??</p>
<p>p.s. i'm from bergen county nj which is a very dense area...</p>
<p>I can give you some perspective on the interview questions:</p>
<p>The person you were told to contact about interviews, was almost certainly the chair of your local alumni interview committee. Like the rest of the interviewers, this person is a voluteer who is juggling the rest of life. He or she has also assigned a lot of interviews to a lot of other volunteers with busy lives. And everytime s/he logs into the system, there are more applicants to assign. Being overly busy may be the reason that you have not been contacted, either by that chairperson or by a person who has already been assigned to interview you. </p>
<p>On the other hand, it is getting to the point when many committees have max'ed out the number of interviews they can do. If you don't get an interview, please do not be overly concerned. I don't know the numbers but I do know that many many applicants are admitted to Tufts without having interviews. But...if you feel very strongly that an interview would showcase something of you that was not apparent in your application, by all means, contact the chairperson again. </p>
<p>My own rule of thumb for students to whom I've offered interviews but who do not respond is to send a second email when it's been more than a week and to call a week after that. You should do what feels right for you.</p>