<p>I’ll chime in to say that Stupe’s stats are DEF not the issue. Anyway…I’d say it sounds like insanely good news. Not an admission…but a very real consideration! As well they SHOULD be considering you. You must have just gotten someone skipped over early on. And this surely means you’re in one of the “warmer” stacks of applications, as opposed to “colder”, ya know? I’d be excited! Why are you so worried they might ask about your application? It surely rocks. And don’t worry about being “grilled” (my daughter’s Harvard interview was her best). So GOOD LUCK!!!</p>
<p>Thank you everyone!</p>
<p>are there any reports last year about late interviews?</p>
<p>hey Idiosyncra3y check out this threads from last year</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/681646-significance-late-multiple-harvard-interviews.html?highlight=late+interview[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/681646-significance-late-multiple-harvard-interviews.html?highlight=late+interview</a></p>
<p>it looks like most were waitlisted or accepted, not rejected :O</p>
<p>haha have seen it, but thanks. 
don’t trust others… must happen to me… take it that you haven’t had it yet?</p>
<p>^the interview? no its this weekend</p>
<p>I had the exact same thing happen to me last year. I received a phone call the week before decisions were to be released.</p>
<p>I spoke to my Academic Advisor this year, and asked him why my interview was so late, and he replied something along these lines: We wanted to accept you, so we wanted an interview. </p>
<p>This is not to say that if you don’t get an interview you won’t get it. But, there is a higher chance that a late interview will result in an acceptance/waitlist.</p>
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Wow thank you so much for this information! I hope the same goes for me :)</p>
<p>Yes, it is getting VERY late now, so think that you have an excellent chance. An interview to decide whether you are accepted 4 days before decisions? I think not. It is possible though, so don’t get too casual, though I doubt you were.</p>
<p>^Haha thanks for the optimism. and no, I won’t get too casual. in fact, I wish I could be more relaxed! lol</p>
<p>^I saw your thread while I was randomly browsing CC… GOOD LUCK!!!</p>
<p>I haven’t even had one Harvard interview. But it’s not like I would choose Harvard over MIT anyways.</p>
<p>Stupefy, let’s think about this logically:</p>
<p>-Decisions are out in a week.</p>
<p>-This is a very hectic time for the adcom.</p>
<p>-They need to start finalizing now.</p>
<p>-They obviously wouldn’t want to interview you if they don’t like you.</p>
<p>-They probably consider you a good candidate for a place. (after all, only 6 out of every 100 will get in.)</p>
<p>In conclusion, if the interviewer likes you, you’ll be getting an acceptance letter next week. DON’T FREAK OUT OR YOU’LL BOMB IT. Good luck.</p>
<p>“In conclusion, if the interviewer likes you, you’ll be getting an acceptance letter next week. DON’T FREAK OUT OR YOU’LL BOMB IT. Good luck.”</p>
<p>Lol, I’m sure she’ll feel so much more confident during her interview knowing that. :D</p>
<p>@iCalculus: any particular why you would pick MIT…?</p>
<p>Thanks Calico!! :D</p>
<p>@Lobzz- thanks for your input. I really hope you’re right. and I’ll try not to freak out…actually I interview pretty well. Before, I was irked by the fact that interviews generally don’t matter much. Now, there’s a lot of pressure on me to do well :/</p>
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Haha yeah no pressure or anything. Pshh harvard, NBD</p>
<p>I would pick MIT over harvard for several reasons:</p>
<p>1) You can cross register at Harvard starting sophomore year, so it’s not like you can’t experience Harvard. You can have the best of both worlds
2) I only like to dabble in the humanities. I am not a humanities person. I am a math/science person.
3) It’s best to save Harvard for grad school. Many MIT undergrads are successful with Harvard grad school, including gaining acceptance, doing well, etc.
4) I’d like to stay away from the more pretentious atmosphere of Harvard (not saying that MIT is not pretentious).
5) Since MIT is across the river from Harvard, I can go and look at Harvard while having a safe haven at MIT
6) Harvard may be the trump card, but being an MIT grad is just so LEGIT. No one will doubt your abilities.</p>
<p>and i quote collegealum:
It’s nice to be around other people who also build robots in their spare time.</p>
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I think I might be with you on the MIT>Harvard idea, but for totally different (and much less certain) reasons. I heart humanities for one. I just like the idea of being forced to take mathy/sciencey classes I wouldn’t otherwise.</p>
<p>Both of them are pretty legit to be honest. And in my, admittedly small, experience, Harvard students rarely play croquet or sip tea. On the other hand, if they do, I enjoy both activities, especially tea drinking, more than I think I would enjoy building a robot, even when not done ironically.</p>
<p>@Stupefy: Actually, that is exactly what you have to keep in mind on your way to meet the interviewer. You need to know and understand that you earned (you were not given) an opportunity like no other. make the best of it… You’ve been doing just that for the past four years, right? </p>
<p>I really hope you get in, Stupefy.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t pick anyone over Harvard – it’s Harvard . . . No one has to explain . . .</p>
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Yes, I believe I have been doing that for the past 4 years :D</p>
<p>Thank you so much! Means a lot to me. I’ll keep you posted :)</p>
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<p>I hate that attitude. It’s what turns me off Harvard tbh. (Though of course, it’s false to conflate the supercilious attitudes of Harvard’s applicants with Harvard itself). </p>
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<li>And before anyone jumps on me for whatever reason, I’d like to clarify that what I’m trying to say is:</li>
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<p>If, hypothetically, I have the choice of Harvard, Yale and a few other top schools of the same calibre, I would want to base my decision on real and substantial reasons.</p>
<p>That is, I would want to go to Yale for compelling reasons that mean something to me
(ie. the great people I’ve met there, or the way that I perceive its residential system to work etc), and similarly I would want to go to Harvard for compelling reasons, that mean something real to *me<a href=“ie.%20a%20particular%20major%20with%20amazing%20faculty%20that%20I%20want%20to%20study,%20or%20certain%20clubs/societies%20that%20I%20admire”>/I</a>. </p>
<p>I refuse to make my decisions based on what I see as trivial reasons, such as “it’s YALE” or analogously, because “it’s Hahvahd”.</p>
<p>(I don’t know, maybe that’s just me. And maybe that’s just me getting rather sick of the increasingly meaningless phrase “It’s Harvard!”)</p>
<p>Anyway, sorry to digress off your thread Stupefy. G’luck with your interview :)</p>