<p>On January 14th, I received an e-mail from the Princeton Office of Admission saying that I would soon be contacted by an alumnus for an interview. It has been nearly a month and the alumnus has not yet contacted me.</p>
<p>Yesterday, I got an e-mail saying that my Princeton application was complete.</p>
<p>Should I contact the Princeton Office of Admission or the alumnus assigned to interview me? Is it too late for an interview?</p>
<p>If you have contact information for the alumnus get in touch with them. If not contact the office of Admission.</p>
<p>If they don’t contact you, it should be okay. It won’t hurt you for sure, but if you think the interview can help, contact them as soon as possible.</p>
<p>Thanks. I will be e-mailing the alumnus who was supposed to be interviewing me.</p>
<p>I’m not that concerned about not getting an interview. I’m just afraid that he has tried and failed to contact me for whatever reason. I’m afraid that his report back to Princeton will say something along the lines of “Tried to contact. No response.”</p>
<p>^Same thing happened to me, and I also contacted my alumnus after a month. Turns out, she had forgotten/never got in contact with me and told me that she was in fact assigned to interview me. Happy I contacted her!!</p>
<p>What area are you in? I heard that not all areas get interviews, some are just phone.</p>
<p>Same thing happened to me, but my interviewer eventually replied like 2-3 weeks later.</p>
<p>I’m sorry, but you might not be able to get an interview regardless if you email them and remind them. My alumni interviewer said that he only contacted me so late and couldn’t do later because he had to hand in a report by Feb. 1st… dunno if that applies to your interviewers as well.</p>
<p>It’s weird how there’s a lack of balance here… I just got a call from an alumni wondering when we could set up an interview. </p>
<p>The only thing is, I already had one.</p>
<p>Like, weeks ago.</p>
<p>Now I’m wondering whether or not my interviewer submitted the report yet… <em>worried</em></p>
<p>Butting in here, because my sister interviews for Princeton. I think I mentioned on another thread that the things she thinks are very important in interviews are showing a lot of interest in the school (requesting and interview and accepting it promptly if you are contacted, writing a thank you note, seeming eager/interested) and not being a complete psycho.</p>
<p>She writes a report and it includes the dates she contacted the student, when the student writes back, promptness, thank you note etc. That part shows interest.</p>
<p>The actual CONTENT of the interview seems less important. Whether a kid seemed stupendous or lackluster seems to factor very little into the equation. She gets lists of who gets in, etc and she sees no correlation.</p>
<p>I think your strategies all seem on the mark, contacting to make sure your interview report was submitted and contacting a slow-to-respond interviewer all seem like good steps if you keep things brief and polite.</p>
<p>The application were supposed to have been complete by Jan 1, 2013. Why would you get an email saying they are complete now?</p>
<p>@Dipali: subsequent documents trickle in after 01-Jan.</p>
<p>@Jamiecakes: about what your sister thinks students’ interest level, how quickly they communicate with her, their promptness, their thank you letters — veers greatly from what I know of what Princeton asks of its interviewers’ evaluation. Plus you also mention her evaluations seem to show no correlation with eventual results. I mention this because I don’t want your mentioning of your sister’s evaluation style to generate a unsubstantiated rumor among enormously nervous applicants who are looking for any clue how to boost their chances and put on the best face.</p>
<p>My hypothesis is that those “interest” factors are not wanted by Princeton and instead, are your sister’s extra hurdles.</p>
<p>Caveat: I’m NOT a PTon interviewer but one for a peer school. No mention whatsoever about students’ “level of interest” or “promptness” or “thank you notes” is asked of us at all during our write ups. I imagine that holds true for HYP.</p>
<p>Can any actual PTon interviewers chime in here? While countering Jamiecakes’ assertion, I don’t want to misinform either. If I’m mistaken and Jamiecakes is correct, please reply.</p>
<p>Princeton University does not ask interviewers the level of interest shown by applicants. I do not comment on the difficulty or ease of setting up the interview because there are factors outside of the applicant’s control. I had difficulty contacting one student because her mother did not allow her to have an email account and my email went to her mother. Mom did not tell the daughter that she had received an email from a Princeton interviewer. I could not contact another student because the family telephone voice mail box was full. </p>
<p>The only time I have ever made a comment on an applicant’s responsiveness for an interview is a student that did not respond after I had personally spoken to them on the phone. They did not respond to my emails or answer the phone at the time that I said I would call.</p>
<p>I have commented on the student’s knowledge of their intended major at Princeton. Applicant’s can fake interest. An applicant that takes the time to have detailed knowledge of Princeton shows maturity and effort. </p>
<p>Most interview reports do not have significant new information for admissions because most applicants are very intelligent and articulate. However, I believe some interview reports help the admission office to understand the applicant better and therefore help admissions make a decision. Students can be admitted after a poor interview or not accepted after a glowing interview report.</p>
<p>Interviewers are not told how to interview or specific items to mention in the interview report. Each applicant may have a different interview experience. I tell the applicants that I interview that they should not take any comment I make as my judgment on their chances of being accepted since I do not see their transcript, SAT scores, or teacher recommendations.</p>
<p>To weallcaresomuch: You can be admitted without an interview. When an interviewer is unable to setup an interview they indicate something like non judgmental like Unable to Interview. I personally believe that an interview report may help a few applicants but the lack of an interview is not significant.</p>
<p>Thank you very much for all of your helpful replies! I contacted my interviewer and he told me that interviewers are not supposed to contact applicants until their applications are complete. (Mine had been missing a Secondary School Report.) I had a Skype interview two days ago.</p>
<p>Thnx for chiming in, PTonAlumnus: what the other poster described was so out of sync of what my school asks, I couldn’t imagine P asking something so bizarre.</p>