For those still concerned regarding interviews, as the full committee has very likely begun meeting by now (and some initial decisions may have already been made one way or another), I would assume interviews are now done for the EA round. It would be extremely hard to get interview reports in on time for them to be included in the full committee if they are scheduled now, especially if @MaybeHarvard2022 is correct and the last day for the full committee to meet is scheduled for December 5th (which would make sense, it takes time to finish filing paperwork and packaging/addressing letters).
My advice now is that you should try to relax and not to think about Harvard for the next couple weeks, although I know how hard that is - it’s out of your hands now. Spend time with friends, work on other applications, enjoy your senior year of high-school, in a few years time you’ll feel very nostalgic about it all. Best of luck.
As I've said before, don't try to read the tea leaves. One should assume that it is the very rare ~17 yo applicant has thought of a potential back door that the more experienced Harvard team has not thought of first.
@MaryMarym there was an admissions calendar posted on Harvard’s website that could only be accessed through web cache (clicking on the link regularly gave you an error message). There was also something about dockets which I’m not sure what that means.
@Telluric I recently heard that some admitted people from nearby countries had received interview with admissions officer on December. So do you think there is some chance that alumni isn’t available? Also, just for knowledge-sake, are the top 1% of the admitted students even interviewed? Or are they admitted directly (probably like that one UK student you talked about who got in without an interview. But I have no idea if he was that strong) and interviews are conducted for those who are somewhere along the middle of the admitted students (so that they can better decide whom to accept and whom to deny)? I know I sound way too optimistic here but what are your views? (In the context of limited interview countries)
@skieurope So my teacher thinks I should stop talking about politics on my Twitter (as I am a conservative and Harvard is mainly liberal). While my tweets are definitely not offensive, she thinks if Harvard looks on my Twitter they may not like my tweets as somethings I do attack Democrat policies. What do you think?
@Tobster18 I think admissions officers have better things to do than to stalk you. Besides, unless you wrote something extremely offensive, your mere opinion will NOT hamper your chances.
@Telluric the reason I thought exceptionally strong candidates aren’t interviewed is this (could be wrong, just my opinion): Harvard initially screens international students and then in full committee meetings, people from all around the world are compared with one another (of course, with circumstances in consideration) (This is what Harvard’s admission officer told in one video). So they probably don’t want international students from limited-interview countries to be disadvantaged in the comparison with the lack of an interview (which could make the comparison harder if there is another international/national with similar chances but interviewed), so they conduct interviews. However, if an applicant is a ‘clear-admit,’ then there is no question for such disadvantage. Also, the UK candidate who got in without an interview had submitted a poetry book as supplement and had really strong ECA. And maybe, someone from the faculty gave high ratings to that work, making the guy a ‘clear admit.’ I also noticed that one international guy mentioned that his interviewer said somewhere along these lines, “Interviews are done only after pre-screening in our country. But there have been some admits without interviews. They are very very rare” So couldn’t it be that those ‘rare’ students are exceptionally spiky/clear admits? What are your thoughts? (All this could be just my optimism kicking in, so your thoughts are welcome)
I saw quite a few posts mentioning me, so I felt the need to clarify a few things.
I am a female applicant from Iran. I had my interview with an admissions officer over skype on the 14th. I didn’t think it went particularly well, but it wasn’t bad either. It lasted about 45 minutes and we mainly discussed women’s rights and the living situations here in Iran and mainly in my region in Iran, which my admissions officer seemed to have many questions about because I was apparently the first-ever applicant from my province. I hope that helps, and good luck to you all!
@crimsondream22 I’m freaking out a little. Do you have any thoughts on the question I’ve asked in #776? Also, do you think the interview is more of a tool to dig out unclear information (from your experience) in potential admits? And if the circumstances are pretty much clear from the application, they don’t interview?
@nekanorneki Well, I believe that could be the case. It’s all hypothesis with little data to back up, and I think every admit case is based on entirely different factors that we might not even know about. It sounds logical though, so it might be true for the truly VERY exceptional applicants.
. I was just wondering whether fleepeep logged in and saw something else.