<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>I submitted my Harvard app on December 1st and still have not heard from Harvard regarding an interview. They've got all my materials and everything. My region should have a fair number of Harvard alums and some of the people I knew who graduated last year had interviews with Harvard. Is there something wrong with the system?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Other people seem to be having the same problem:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/839818-have-you-gotten-your-interview.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/839818-have-you-gotten-your-interview.html</a></p>
<p>There are many more applicants than there are alum interviewers. When and whether you get an interview depends on when your app was received and on the availability of an alum interviewer. Some applicants will be interviewed as late as the second week of March.</p>
<p>At a Harvard Club reception this week, we were told that it’s the responsibility of the area “director” (don’t know the real title…president?) to set up these interviews. And he said that, if you hadn’t been contacted within a month of your entire application submission…shoot him a quick e-mail and he’d check on it. So that’s HIS timeline. But others might be different. And he hemmed and hawed a bit before picking a month. AND…let’s face it…the holidays and closings of colleges will extend that time. I’d say you’re fine, BUT I would probably contact them in 1-3 weeks. This representative said they get CRAZY busy at the end of February, so they prefer to have them MOSTLY done by then.</p>
<p>Thanks for your help! and how might I contact the area “director”? I don’t really know where to get the contact info. Is it on Harvard’s website?</p>
<p>“And he said that, if you hadn’t been contacted within a month of your entire application submission…shoot him a quick e-mail and he’d check on it.”</p>
<p>I’m baffled at that. I’ve chaired my regional alum interviewing committee, and I got info about students needing interviews straight from Harvard, not from applicants. Harvard also does not provide students with info about whom their regional alum interviewing chair is. Once a student tracked me down presumably because he learned who I was from a student who had been admitted from his school the previous year. The new applicant called me at home sounding panicked because he hadn’t been interviewed yet. He also gave me some BS that Harvard had asked him to call me and he needed to be interviewed ASAP.</p>
<p>I called admissions, and they had not given the student my name, and they were not in a special hurry to have the student admitted. I was very annoyed. It was hard enough work finding alum interviewers to interview students without having students badger me about when they’d be interviewed.</p>
<p>I think there is a misunderstanding here, that R124687 meant that you could contact the admissions rep (at the admissions office) if you haven’t been offered an interview yet, in a week or so.</p>
<p>I can’t imagine tracking the area director down, or the interviewer. </p>
<p>Just call the admissions office and they will reassure you.</p>
<p>I think a lot of interviews are in Jan. and Feb.</p>
<p>I began my apllication process in August and submitted everything by November. Two weeks later, got a response from an interviewer from another state! I don’t know how I was assigned to another state when CLEARLY my private school is in Connecticut. Odd… Two months later, FINALLY got contacted by an interviewer in my area. So, just give it some time.</p>
<p>No, I meant the alum. I didn’t mean you could seek them out though! OUR local Harvard Club sponsored a get-together. At this meeting, the very cordial club President said that it was actually his responsibility to assign alums. So, he said that if one hadn’t been contacted within a month of their submission, to shoot him an e-mail. This was at the end of December and my D applied by Nov 1. The kids we spoke to had already had their interviews. FWIW, she still hasn’t heard back (2-3 weeks) after sending the requested e-mail. Whatever happens is fine. I just don’t want them to think she ignored them because she nearly missed another college’s interview whose their e-mail went to spam. And we have tons of alumni (big city) so I thought her Harvard might have ended up there too without her catching it. ??</p>
<p>OMG! I just received the call, He asked me for my TEST SCORES and TRANSCRIPT!!! i never thought he would ask for that, hey, this is getting scary because my scores are not the best but my transcript is acceptable.</p>
<p>Admissions asks alum interviewers to find out test scores, gpa, class rank. Presumably admissions requests this because something intelligence is one of the factors the interviewer would need to rate you on. May also be a good way for the college to make sure that they’ve got your most up to date stats. I can’t remember the other factors interviewers have to rate applicants on.</p>
<p>yes but! come on!!! don’t do that to me!!! so cruel! i will feel so embarrassed! kidding!</p>
<p>Applied Dec. 31, no notification about interview. not worried. they will get to me sooner or later or i wont get an interview which i heard is not that big of a deal. But of course, i want to have an interview like everybody else.</p>