@skieurope my mid year grades were received as of yesterday however I just noticed the application portal says to send first semester grades by Feb 1st but mine just recently became available. The official website says mid years should be sent in February. Will this hurt my application?
Anyone gotten any updates!
@bbq5ue Sometimes Ivies send LL’s in the last week of the month. So I guess if not now, then there’s waiting till then.
Lmao I worried for decisions
@putinator A month and 11 days more! Dont stress about it. Have fun.
Had my Dartmouth interview today. It was pretty urgent considering the interviewer emailed me last night, and I am an international applicant…but no updates yet on the Harvard front. O Stress, thou art a vengeful deity!
@Avik An interview doesnt convey anything. It is just something that happens if Alums are in your area and/or if you opted for an interview. It is just to augment the personality you have portrayed in your application. A good/bad interview doesnt tip you over either side, but cursing/disrespecting or behavior of that sort would definitely get you tipping to the ‘negative end’.
I disagree, While a good interview report will NOT send you to the admit pool, a bad/tepid/meh one can sink an application. For example, this from Yale: https://asc.yale.edu/samplereports
@gibby Oh. I thought that it only marginally matters. I mean its obvious regarding swearing/disrespecting and all that, but it seems scary that having an ‘okay’ interview may play against an applicant. But then the question comes by to: ‘What does not having an interview do in this case?’
IMHO the purpose of an interview, and the interview report, is to weed out applicants who are not a good fit for the college.
Not having an interview means an AO is in the dark about an applicant’s fit for the school. Sometimes that’s actually better than an applicant being interviewed and having them “put their foot in their mouth” or just be “okay.”
I don’t know gibby. If an interviewer really rips into an interviewee because of an inappropriate remark or the interviewee shows a total lack of interest or understanding of the college, that might send up a red flag. The context of the excerpts were examples for interviewers on how to write reports that are just not conclusory but which have contextual back-up (good and bad examples). If a student’s application, especially the LoR’s, are particularly strong, I don’t thing an “average/ok” interview report will shoot the applicant down. I think the AO is going to give much more weight to an assessment of a teacher(s) who has worked closely with a student over a period of time than an half hour to 1 hour interview with a complete stranger with limited training.
I do agree though that sometimes candidates may be better off not having an interview if they are awkward in personal interactions or are prone to putting their foot in their mouths.
The examples are not glowing, to be sure, but they are hardly disastrous. And to draw conclusions is to assume facts not in evidence. Unless a school is only interviewing the 2000 applicants in whom they are really interested (without reading tea leaves about what the interview priority codes really mean), **my** opinion is that the example interviewer notes mirror those of the AO group already. I cannot imagine that example #1 had an application that screamed "perfect fit." IMO, unless the interview is **soooo** bad (like @BKSquared 's examples, any weight of any interview to HY will be a feather at best.
@skieurope This is what i was trying to convey across regarding the interview itself. Thanks for further clarifying.
Have international (India) interview requests for Harvard gone out yet? I finished my Yale, Princeton, Penn, Duke interviews last month. But still haven’t received one for Harvard 
@HARVARDPENN It all depends on Alum availability at that time and place. There is no such date for requests that is sent for all applicants within a country. Maybe there are groups that moderate requests, but it doesnt matter if no alums are present.
@HARVARDPENN: India is one of the countries that Harvard has labeled as having limited interviews. My take on that: you should NOT expect to receive an interview from Harvard. See: https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/application-process/what-we-look/interviews
@gibby so does that mean theres preselection of apps for interviews in such places for Harvard? For example: apps who the Adcom have narrowed down get one? or Apps in such places requiring more data (about the personality) to form an admissions decision get on? It’ll be a great help if someone clarifies this.
@BKSquared Thats true too.
@TheGuy1: In 2014, @T26E4, a Yale alumni interviewer and CC member, who is no longer active on CC, sent me this info . . . .
Five years later, in 2019, with the ever increasing number of RD applicants, Yale (and HPSM) must be preselecting applicants for interviews based on a “high priority” and “low priority” list.
That would mean that if an applicant has not heard anything about an interview by the first of March, Admissions has deemed them a “low priority” candidate and the applicant should prepare themselves for a rejection letter (sorry).