Specifically, when will an interviewer contact me? Do I have to submit my application before they get my contact information?
Yes. After you submitting your application. They will contact you to schedule the interview.
Hello, I am an applicant with the same question. How long is the wait usually before interviewers usually contact applicants for scheduling after they’ve submitted their apps?
Interviewers are local volunteers. After your app gets to Penn, your contact info is sent out to the local coordinators who send them to the volunteers. How quickly that person contacts you is up to them. It’s also possible that applicants outnumber volunteer spots. Since they’re generally randomly assigned, it’s possible you may not get an interview offer – but it doesn’t negatively affect you however since Penn knows this can be the case.