<p>How many applicants to Harvard from India got an interview? Does anyone know</p>
<p>Almost everyone!</p>
<p>They try & give every applicant an Interview.</p>
<p>No^ not everyone gets an interview from Harv. It really depends on your application and if they are interested in you</p>
<p>Umm North…I really don’t know about Harvard(or most of ivies) but I do know that selective application interviews are given on the basis of the school you go to…not their need!!</p>
<p>Has anyone here had his/her Harvard interview?</p>
<p>^ I think Harvard starts to give interview calls in early March!!</p>
<p>And Yes, NOT every applicant gets an interview call from Harvard!!</p>
<p>LOL… My friend got his Harvard interview 2 weeks after he submitted his application!! And I can assure you - he is not a “TOP” candidate!!</p>
<p>All Ivies blatantly state on their websites that Interviews are only informational(except for certain majors) and they try to provide most applicants with an Interview!!
For a fact, Princeton interviews 98% of it’s applicant pool.</p>
<p>How much the interview counts - that depends from school to school!!</p>
<p>^ I think it doesnt hold true for H.
Every admitted Indian student in the past HAS had an interview. In March that is.</p>
<p>An interview in march, hmm. Isn’t that too close to decisions time?</p>
<p>@guyinblue - I think you’ve got wrong info.
Applications are read beginning mid-Feb and end somewhere around mid-March. An interview in March would be a tad-bit too late!! </p>
<p>Though what they might do is have an interview of sorts just to make sure that the applicant they are accepting is actually “Harvard” material!! </p>
<p>But frankly, even though I’m just another applicant, I doubt Harvard has Interviews in March!!</p>
<p>And how do you know that EVERY admitted Indian student has had an interview???</p>
<p>I had an interview a week ago</p>
<p>Rishav - Its early March i believe. CC is my source of knowledge.</p>
<p>Apart from it, I happen to know two current Harvard students, one from Mumbai and another from Delhi IRL, and both got interviews in early March.
So that is just a deduction that I made from the available situations. :)</p>
<p>@guyinblue - Maybe. Maybe not!! I didn’t apply to Harvard, so I haven’t researched on the significance of a H interview!! Haha!! But from what my friend tells me, an interview doesn’t mean acceptance and no interview doesn’t imply a rejection.</p>
<p>@guyinblue Interviews start in early December for RD. My Harvard interview was during the Christmas week (~27th Dec. 2012). The deadline for submitting interview reports is March 1st (or was it Feb 15), so a March interview isn’t really possible.</p>
<p>Well, I applied to Harvard. And I still haven’t had an interview. So not EVERYONE gets an interview… Probably the applications they’re interested in.</p>
<p>I don’t know. Probably just randomly chosen. I didn’t get interviewed for Duke, NU, Columbia and Dartmouth.</p>
<p>You may get an interview and still be rejected, but there’s no way you can get in without being interviewed.</p>
<p>Nope^ there are people who have got in without interviews, from India.</p>
<p>@xNorth is right, interviews just add a personal touch to your application but are largely insignificant if someone else is marginally better than you.</p>