<p>I got my P'ton letter saying this guy was going to interview me...and I thought, "Hey, that last name sounds familiar! That's the name of a girl in my school!" It was the kind of last name that's really special and specific, you know? So then, today, I get a phone call for Harvard, and it's a woman...and as soon as I heard the last name I thought:</p>
<p>"Oh. Cr*p."</p>
<p>Yes--wife went to Harvard, husband to Princeton, and they're interviewing me! So they KNOW I'm applying to both schools! Isn't this a conflict of interests?!?! I swear, my focus for the rest of the day was totally off.</p>
<p>What conflict of interest is it you speak of? I see no conflict from your description here. Who cares what schools you applied to? How many, where they are........only you care.</p>
<p>Well, I'll have a conflict of interest...I know they'll talk to each other. They're man and wife after all! I cannot therefore seem to favor one over the other...and if the first one doesn't like me, the other will know...</p>
<p>certainly you cannot be that simple minded. Firstly you presume that your importance to them is great enough to converse about you.......doubtful. Secondly they care not which school you go to they are helping out your current HS and that is probably the bottom line.</p>
<p>Funny story but the odds are related to how many alums your HS has from these two schools. I would think if you are in a prep school or area feeder the odds are high.....every year. You apparently don't understand that part.</p>
<p>Plus, do you live in a big enough bubble that you think you would be the only one who has ever applied to both P'ton and Harvard? I think the odds are pretty high that this couple has interviewed the same prospective student more times than fingers on their hands. It's probably a normal part of each's job.</p>
<p>uh, i don't think they're going to talk about you. I'm sure they don't care that much. And they can't be so stupid as to think kids only apply to one college.</p>
<p>wow everyones being kind of harsh. i dont think the person who posted this meant to be pretentious or simple-minded. i think the coincidence he/she's referring to is that he/she goes to school with a girl whose parents are interviewing him from 2 diff colleges... the odds that out of all the harvard/princeton interviewers, he'd get 2 that are husband and wife and also have a daughter that goes to his school. why wouldnt they talk about him/her? maybe he/she's friends with the daughter?</p>
<p>Nope, not a prep school or an "area feeder."</p>
<p>And as a matter of fact, they notified me that this was the first time they've ever heard of such a thing.</p>
<p>Follow the advice I'm giving myself as well and take chill pills, guys. After doing so myself, I reasoned that they'd probably be professional and agree beforehand not to tell the other about their respective interviews...</p>
<p>We got a few laughs out of that odd little situation over the phone, though, so I hope it'll at least alleviate some of the initial tension.</p>