That’s a positive sign. Would you please tell more about yourself? Like are you a domestic or international applicant? And what are your stats? I am so very thankful for you to share with us!
Congrats!
Edit: Can you show us what the email looked like?
I will make a post tonight and share my stats!
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It looked like any other email you would receive and they just introduced themselves and asked for a good time to meet. There is some personal information so I won’t post a pic sorry!
I suppose you are from the USA!
Understandable, I assume the email address was from a harvard.edu?
Yes, it was a Harvard.edu email address
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Okay, so where to start? I’ve never done one of these before.
Right off the bat, I will tell you that I am a non-traditional student who just got out of the military last year. I graduated high school in 2015, so I won’t include any of my high school stuff because 1) it was trash and 2) a long time ago.
Current Year: Freshman
College: University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Race and Gender: White/Male
Applying to: Harvard, Brown, John Hopkins
Current Majors: Biology/Chemistry (heavy focus on research)
College GPA: 4.0/4.0 (Took 15 credits first semester and 20 credits this semester)
Military Experience:
- Multiple Awards
- Multiple deployments around the globe
- Held jobs well above my paygrade
- Great leadership experience
- Used all of this through my essays and application
College ECs
- Work in a Biochemistry Research Lab (Have my own projects, will be publishing research soon, awarded best oral presentation in cellular/molecular Biology at a recent Research Symposium)
-Volunteer with an organization that helps Veterans achieve their academic goals through mentorship and application help
-Work on-campus part-time
-Work as a TA for classes on campus
Hopefully, this is what you guys wanted. In my supplements, I focused heavily on my military and research experience. I plan to pursue an MD/Ph.D. program after undergrad, so this was emphasized in my essays. If anyone is still reading lol and has questions or something, I would be happy to answer them!!!
P.s I just made this account today, so it’s nice to meet everyone, and I wish you all the best of luck!!!
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First, thank you for your service.
Secondly, as another nontraditional student, I feel so pleased and happy as our resumes are different yet similar and now I feel hopeful I will receive an interview request as well.
My high school path was equally difficult, and THERE IS HOPE FOR ME!
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@Johnyb0223 - Congrats on the interview offer. I wish you the best of luck!!! I did not receive an interview which is kind of a bummer, but I am rooting for you!!! Go get’em!
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Does anyone know if transfers have gotten in without an interview? Feeling a bit deflated in this process 
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I have no clue, and I’m feeling equally deflated. I hope I get a request in the coming weeks . . .
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Looking back at previous years, interview/admissions officer interview requests tended to go out on Wednesday around this week in April. Although there have been people who got in without interviews, they tended to have been interviewed the first time they applied. That being said, someone who applied last year got waitlisted for freshman entry and got an admissions officer interview when he applied to transfer.
It leads me to conclude that if you didn’t get an interview, it’s highly unlikely that Harvard are seriously considering you. However, I’m just speculating and I have no idea how the process goes. But I have noticed that people who got admissions officer interviews tended to get in while people who got alumni interviews had mixed outcomes.
It’s absolutely demoralising.
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Yes. I left a post above that I did know people who got in without an interview, so I won’t repeat that, but two of my best friends transferred to Harvard and Yale without interviews, and some people from my school (I prefer not to say exactly where for the sake of privacy) transferred to Harvard without interviews. I personally asked them at the time because I was interested in transferring there myself. Their process may have changed significantly, but in my experience, not getting an interview is in no way an indicator of a rejection; it’s pointless to draw conclusions based on whether or not you receive an interview. Good luck to you all! 
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I do think that getting an interview is a positive thing and therefore logically, not getting an interview has to be a negative indicator.
People who got accepted or waitlisted were disproportionately interviewed in previous threads. There will be people who were weren’t interviewed and accepted but I don’t think not receiving one can be treated as being neutral.
As I said, being offered one is likely a positive sign since they wouldn’t interview random people they aren’t interested in whatsoever; I never said it wasn’t. I do, however, stand by my statement that not receiving one should be treated as neutral. As you yourself have said, people who weren’t offered interview opportunities were either accepted or denied, with those (more than several, so I wouldn’t say it’s irrelevant data) I personally know who got in as transfer admits being good examples of getting in without being offered an interview. (I also know a few transfer applicants from my school in the recent past who were interviewed and were rejected in the end, but that’s another story.) So if those here who didn’t receive an interview request can either get in or not get in, then shouldn’t it be the exact reason for it to be treated neutrally? Your reasoning that “since getting an interview is a positive sign, not getting one must be a negative one” is, I respectfully say, a bit flawed as it is never one way or the other.
Sorry for the wall of text. I’m not here to start any argument about it; I merely tried to boost some positivity based on my, and my friends’, personal experience with transfer admissions since there seem to be people who believe not receiving one is definitely a negative sign and have given up quite prematurely. Edit: I also must mention not all transfer applicants are on CC, so while past threads are a good source of information, they shouldn’t be the reason you logically conclude not receiving an interview is a bad sign.
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Thanks for the reassurance, king <3
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Right? @rabbitcat is a true king/queen <3 I hope he/she gets into Harvard
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Wow thank you so much! 
You’re all so sweet and supportive. You all deserve the best of all good things in the world. I hope you get in as well! I’m so glad to have met you here, my fellow transfer applicants. 
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Thanks for the reassurance I’m hoping the best of everyone!
I hope everyone is doing okay during the ongoing pandemic!
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