<p>Tips for what to do, what not to do? what to be prepared for?</p>
<p>Please answer if you've been interviewed by Harvard.</p>
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<p>Oh My God! Me too!! I am super nervous!! I don’t know what it means to have an interview. Is it good or bad?</p>
<p>My interview went rather naturally. It quickly devolved into a conversation in which we talked about philosophy, psychology, politics, and a whole lot of other things. By the end my interviewer said she had a very good idea of what she would write.</p>
<p>So I guess all I can say is relax, be yourself. They need to know you.</p>
<p>Also I think they just interview everyone they can, i.e., receiving an interview doesn’t mean you passed some “first test” or something.</p>
<p>Make sure to not be an ignorant jerk who decides to camp in a tent in the middle of Harvard Yard, and I’ll be sure to send you my best wishes.</p>
<p>I still haven’t gotten my interview yet?! What is going on?</p>
<p>Oh ok thanks. Is interview important in admission?</p>
<p>The interview is a part of your admissions profile only in that it’s impossible for the admissions office to meet 30,000 kids personally. I have interviewed about a dozen kids in the past few years for Harvard. I have really liked them all. I guess if there were any one applicant who ridiculously offended me, I might treat it differently, but I don’t view my role as one of gatekeeping. I view my role as trying to do my best for the student I am interviewing. To be admitted to Harvard is difficult enough as it is. I try to compliment my interviewees and emphasize their strong points. Like I said, if there was something that shouted out to me that some kid was not a good egg, I might tell a different story, but so far that hasn’t happened. I believe that most (though probably not all) kids who end up applying to Harvard have a good attitude about their future and have done some hard work. I word all my interview reports with an eye towards helping them achieve their goal of acceptance.</p>
<p>Do I believe it makes a serious difference? No. If the student’s application is not there, it is not there, and I can’t do anything about that. I routinely give excellent recommendations in my interviews, as positive as I can make them, and only three of my interviewees had been admitted. All of them, however, have still gone on to great colleges.</p>