<p>Oh my gosh! I can't believe what just happened! So I had my interview a month ago. When my interviewer was contacting me for an interviewer, she gave me her phone number and told me to call her when I was at the location. I put her name and number in my phonebook so that I didn't have to write anything down. So the interview went off pretty well I think. Asked me about other colleges I was applying, which I wasn't really expecting, but I think I handled it okay.</p>
<p>But that's not the problem. I had gotten back with my girlfriend two weeks ago. We were hitting it off real well, and last night we did it at her house. So tonight I wanted to text her about last night, so I texted, "gnight babe. hope we do it again sometime. but next time, i won't be as forgiving about cleaning out that rotten ***** of yours ;)" and then I attached a pic of me saluting with my pants off in salute mode too</p>
<p>Guess what. My interviewer and my girlfriend have the same first names. And i sent it to my interviewer. We haven't talked since the interview, and she hasn't replied to me yet. But if she sees this, is this going to affect my chances of getting into Harvard?</p>
<p>It’s hard to know if you are serious, but you seem awfully distraught. So assuming this really happened, I don’t think there is anything you can really do… trying to contact your interviewer and explaining doesn’t seem like it will undo the damage that was already done. If she puts everything together and identifies you, yes, it probably will affect your chances, I’m sorry to say. It’s certainly possible that some leeway will be granted, but I wouldn’t bank on that. I’d say just approach the situation knowing that it was a reach to begin with and there’s no shame in being rejected per se… of course this story might be but you don’t have to divulge these details if you don’t want to! OTOH, it makes for an amusing (perhaps with a moral lesson) story in the right setting.</p>
<p>I think you have to ask someone when are interviews relayed to admissions. If interview results are yet to be relayed, then, you will surely be affected.</p>
<p>Never heard of things like this. I’m like, :O</p>
<p>EDIT: Saw your post here:
“Decisions will be nerve-wrecking! In the meantime, however, I was wondering whether we should provide an update on our situation or not to Harvard University. For example, if you happened to write a book after submitting your application, would it be wise to throw the great Crimson a little e-mail about it or not?”</p>
<p>So I’m not sure if you are serious about this thread. But anyways, it seems that the admissions are almost over coming up with the decisions? On the other hand, I suggest that you should be very careful and more gentle next time. Think about it, what do you think would the interviewer see and interpret about that salute thing?</p>
<p>For an interview a month ago, the interview report would have been due at least a week ago. In any case, all interview reports should have been in a week ago. I doubt your interviewer would bother to contact the admissions committee to update them on this recent email contact from you that obviously was not meant for her. Interviewers do make allowances for youthful indiscretions.</p>
<p>I think it depends a lot on the interviewer, if he/she seemed cool they’ll probably let it slide and might even respond with some witty comeback.
That said, if they’re really uptight then they might interpret it wrong and think that it was directed towards them or some sort of raunchy joke and report it to Harvard.
You know the character of your interviewer better than any of us, but he/she sounds pretty cool (most interviewers are), then you’ll be fine and hopefully he/she will laugh it off. I don’t think there’s anything much to do at this point, an apology of some sort is probably in order but nothing over the top as the reading of the situation depends an awful lot on the interviewer, beyond that just relax and hope for the best.
On another note, I’m sorry but if this is real it’s pretty hilarious.</p>
<p>Chances are, the interviewer did not even keep your number and has no idea where the text came from. She will know the number it came from, but not name, so not like she would know it came from someone she interviewed a month ago. So, no need to worry.</p>