<p>A few weeks ago Harvard asked the representative here in my area to interview me. However, two other applicants from my same area where not asked to get interviews. What does this mean? Is it a good sign?</p>
<p>Yeah, a similar situation happened in one of the threads earlier this month.</p>
<p>Could be a good sign, you never know.</p>
<p>Means nothing most likely. Harvard's policy is to interview everyone that applies, but it doesn't always happen. The alumni reps get a list of everyone that applies from an area. It's up to the alumni to set up the interviews. Harvard doesn't ask for any individual to be interviewed AFAIK.</p>
<p>no, it doesn't mean much. I was in the exact same situation (i think ahighschooler was refering to my thread), but only reversed. Three others were interviewed about a month before me. I ended up having to email the interviewer to set up the interview. Apparantly what happened was he had me scheduled for the last week of february, a week after i actually got my interview.</p>
<p>I don't know of many others in my area that applied (any, actually), but I managed to get one last month. I had a similar thing happen with another school; I really don't think it means much, if anything at all. The interview is a great way for the school to learn about you, but also a great way for you to learn about the school.</p>
<p>It probably means very little. When my interviewer rang me up two weeks into January! (I was a little like: whoah fast!?), she told me to bring my resume because admissions sent her very little knowledge about the applicants. </p>
<p>If I were an alumn with a pile of names, phone numbers and emails and was instructed to do my best to interview them all, I'd just start at the top of the list (alphabetically?), and work my way down.</p>
<p>It doesn't mean anything. Interviews are conducted on an availability basis, meaning the university will attempt to interview every applicant possible. Of course, this requires an alumni presence in the area (also providing the alumnus chooses to conduct interviews for undergrads). Not getting an interview could be due to any number of things, but it certainly doesn't take into consideration an applicant's strength on paper. In fact, the interviewers (at least mine) only had basic information on me (email, name, school, etc.). </p>
<p>Basically, I wouldn't worry about not getting an interview and I wouldn't put any stock into getting an interview.</p>
<p>actually i know of a harvard interviewer who says the opposite. if the school calls you for an interview, it signifies that they are somewhat interested in you.</p>
<p>The strange thing is that, two other Harvard applicants that go to my same school were NOT contacted and I was. Why would Harvard tell them to contact only me and not the others?</p>
<p>Interest maybe? Are you more qualified than they are?</p>
<p>The three of us have our strenghts and weaknesses. I might have more leadership than both, more aps and extracurriculars. But they both have better ranks and one of the has a higher SAT score than me by like twenty-forty points.</p>
<p>What if the person I interviewed with told me --in confidence-- that when the Alumni Association was giving him the names of the kids to be interviewed, the officer said to "pay close attention to [d3!ty]"? Am I at least being looked at?</p>
<p>Edit: I aced the interview; interviewer called my GC to tell him he was "impressed" and that I was one of the best candidates he's ever interviewed.</p>