<p>Hi guys
I plan on applying to harvard for the 2006 fall period. Does the university require an interview? If so, how can I schedule it. Do I schedule it before Jan 1 or afterwards.
Also which of the following colleges need an interview?
Cornell
Columbia
Caltech
Princeton
Carnegie Melon
Stanford
Thanks in advance.
Abi</p>
<p>No college requires them. All but Stanford encourage them. Why don't you actually look at the websites of the schools you want to go to?</p>
<p>Harvard makes a point of interviewing every applicant that is located in an area where there is an alum willing to interview. This means that most US applicants are interviewed. Fewer international applicants are interviewed because there are fewer alums abroad.</p>
<p>After you've submitted your application, Harvard would contact you about an interview. </p>
<p>Colleges policies about interviews are listed on their admissions web pages. </p>
<p>You also can use College Confidential's search feature to find out info about each college's interviews.</p>
<p>harvard says that anyone in the US or Canada applying will be interviewed...</p>
<p>It's not true that anyone in the US or Canada will be interviewed. Some people are in places in which there is no convenient Harvard alum to interview, so they aren't interviewed. That happened this year to a guy from a remote place in the Midwest. The closest willing alum was a 2 hour drive away, and the student wasn't able to go to the interview.</p>
<p>Nrrthstarmom understates the likelihood that you will be interviewed; unless and until applications exceed 25,000, virtually every applicant will be interviewed. This is critical, because alumni interviews are increasingly important as other factors (GPA, SAT scorees, etc) become more meaningless, and highschools refuse to report relative standing in the class.</p>
<p>I agree that alum interviews are increasingly important, and I also continue to state that it's not possible to interview some applicants who are in remote areas where there aren't alum within a reasonable distance. Probably, though, most Canadian and US applicants have an alum interviewer reasonably nearby.</p>
<p>Unlike Byerly, I live in an area where there are relatively few Harvard alums and there isn't a Harvard club, so we have to search high and low to find interviewers. We almost were not able to interview all applicants last school year. </p>
<p>If you are offered an alum interview that is a couple of hours drive away, don't turn it down because it's inconvenient. There's a good chance that if you turn it down, there will not be another interviewer who is closer. That's what happened to a student in a rural Midwestern area who applied this past school year. He turned it down because he was living by himself while his parents were out of the country. His parents had not wanted him to leave town.</p>
<p>After he turned it down, Harvard could not find an interviewer who lived closer. He then was able to get his parent's approval to travel to see the original interviewer, but, unfortunately, that interviewer by then lacked time to interview. </p>
<p>The student ended up being rejected. Since the student came from a highly desired area -- rural, Midwest -- and had decent stats, I suspect that if the student had been interviewed, he might have been boosted into admission.</p>
<p>do transfer students require an interview? or can they even GET one?</p>
<p>i'm actually looking forward to an interview.</p>
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<li>by then, i will be done my applications</li>
<li>dunno, i guess they are at least interested</li>
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