<p>hey everyone,</p>
<p>I have my Harvard alumni interview coming up in 2 weeks...I was wondering if anyone had any advice?</p>
<p>thanks in advance :-)</p>
<p>Hey, I'd love to give you advice, but I haven't even done an interview yet! How do you schedule an interview, could you please tell me? Should I call them, or do they call me?</p>
<p>^ They should be calling/emailing you</p>
<p>Oh. That's weird because I already submitted my application and supplement and all my recommendations one or two months ago...And I still haven't been contacted. Should I contact them first?</p>
<p>^ I sent in my application in october and I was only contact last week.</p>
<p>hm my alumni literally lives like 5 minutes away from me (haha), so maybe it depends on how close by an alumni is...
and yeah, they emailed me. :D</p>
<p>mine mailed me about two weeks after i submitted mine.</p>
<p>but don't worry, people can have interviews in march even.</p>
<p>my interviewer also contacted me shortly after i submitted my application, and i had mine this past sunday. i actually had a blast thanks to how fantastic my interviwer was...but as for advice, it really wasn't anything unexpected so really just be knowledgable about harvard as far as the obvious info on the website and just be yourself. mine was super relaxed and informal...but again that could just be because of my interviewer's personality. GOOD LUCK, i am sure you will do wonderfully!</p>
<p>i agree! good luck to everyone who has an interview! hopefully, i'll be contacted soon!</p>
<p>I just received notice of my interview a few days ago, but I am waiting a few days to contact my interviewer again (I don't want to seem to anxious, especially since she was going to call me!). I am so nervous. I just hope I don't stutter or something like that. ;ooo</p>
<p>Just relax. The interview is the least important part of the admission. You're a smart kid, you're a polite kid, and you have a life - let that show.</p>
<p>Don't rehearse anything if you don't want to sounds rehearsed. Don't think up impressive sounding answers to possible questions if you don't want to sound pompous. </p>
<p>All Harvard is trying to do is sell what they assume is a possible candidate on Harvard.
Then they decide on you.</p>
<p>You'll be fine sans a crappy interviewer (I do think it's possible to get a second one if you call and explain), a long series of bumbling answers (just let your answers come out naturally!), or a rhinoceros barging into the room, mauling your interviewer, writing a terrible review of you, and leaving as it wags its paw (?) at you saying "Guess you have to go to Yale - LOSER" </p>
<p>(btw, I love Yale...it's just a stereotypical Harvard rhino)</p>
<p>lol collegehopefull...the rhino would be pretty terrible :P
i'll keep my pachyderms under control :)</p>
<p>Lol, yeah.</p>
<p>I mean, be prepared to be asked questions though - that is to say, think about who you are, and what you love doing.</p>
<p>I was asked what my favorite book was (and the interviewer liked it too!), and what I would like the admissions committee to know that "couldn't really go down on an application".</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure the favorite book one is used to find the superficial candidates : "Well, you know, I really can't decide between the musings of Aurelius in his Meditations and the principles of state laid by Chanakya, I must say, stoicism and Indic philosophies have one unifying blah blah blah blah blah blah"</p>
<p>I mean, I'm not hating on anyone that likes that sort of thing (I do), but the interviewer doesn't expect/want you to have some graduate level sounding reason for liking a book.
If you like a book because you identify with the conflicts within - fair enough.</p>
<p>And I think that last question is just something to throw groomed and polished candidates off their feet, because the interviewer mentioned specifically the 'admissions committee'. I can only imagine the many thoughts that would race through a shallow candidate's mind.</p>