My daughter got interviews for Dartmouth and Princeton. Both completed this and last week. We are in TX.
I would read nothing into getting a request for an interview.
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Totally agreed.
Princeton tries to offer alumni interviews to all applicants, and comes pretty close to succeeding (>95% of students are offered interviews).
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I got interviewed for Duke (ED), Rice, Penn, Harvard. Out side of T20, I had W&M and W&L.
W&M was my first interview, with a current student, and it was awful. And I felt better and better as I became more practiced. If I need to rank how I felt, it would be
Penn=Harvard > Duke=Rice > W&L > W&M.
I was deferred for Duke and withdrew the rest.
If you were deferred from Duke, why did you withdrawal the rest?
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Does this mean you have an acceptance elsewhere?
Nevermind…elsewhere you posted you got accepted ED to Hopkins. @MattMini so you also withdrew your Duke application after the Hopkins acceptance….right?
But then - why haven’t you withdrawn from Duke? (as would be required by your ED contract).
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Actually….how did you get accepted ED at John’s Hopkins….and get deferred at Duke ED. You are only supposed to apply to ONE college ED…right?
Was Hopkins ED2? Even so…you need to withdraw that Duke application.
Hopkins did add ED2
I figured that….still…if he accepts the Hopkins offer, he needs to withdraw that Duke application.
Sorry I didn’t make myself clear. I did withdraw from Duke, along with 20+ other schools. I applied to 15 out of the top 18 schools on US News.
Subconsciously, the Duke decision was made by Duke, but you guys are correct, I had to withdraw from Duke for the RD round which has roughly 10% according to last year’s data.
Hopkins was ED2 so it’s perfectly fine.
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My SD applied to 4 ivies, got interviews at all, got waitlisted everywhere, was accepted to 1 top 10 and 2 top 20 ranked schools. This was last year but just adding to say don’t worry much, things will workout.
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+1 but make good stories later and you get to eat at nice restaurants.
How so? 
Yale, Princeton, and Tufts interviews. Brown now does the optional 2 min video in place of a Brown alumni or student interview. Submitted video.
All our interviews were on Zoom due to COVID. No restaurants.
I wasn’t aware that alumni interviews are ever done at “nice restaurants”. Princeton (for which I do interviews) says that interviewers can buy applicants a snack or beverage if the interview takes place at a diner or cafe, but that’s it. I typically use the local library, so my interviewees don’t even get the beverage. 
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So, all interviews went online in the Covid era. Maybe they’ll just stay that away going forward?
I have mixed feelings about that. In-person interviews feel more real and personal to me. On the other hand, my impression is that the kids I interviewed via Zoom these past two years were more relaxed than my past interviewees were talking in person. Perhaps that means that applicants truly find an online interview less stressful than talking to a middle-aged stranger in person, but it could be that I’m less adept at detecting nervousness when I’m interacting via computer screen. Or maybe I’m more socially awkward in person than I realize and I’m making kids nervous when we meet IRL. (I hope it’s not the latter!)