<p>okay so i posted a week or so ago wondering why i was never contacted for an interview. WELL, tonight at 10:30 i received an email from an alum, wanting to schedule an interview for either this friday, saturday or sunday.</p>
<p>this makes no sense to me if acceptance/rejection letters are being sent out this thursday!!! do you think my interviewer was just irresponsible and waited too long to contact me or what?</p>
<p>Lol i imagine so...
Columbia2002 (an interviewer) said they were due 12/1. I don't think it means you didnt get in.</p>
<p>it might mean that u were deferred and ur interviewer just dropped the ball by contacting u too early....just throwing it out there as a possibility.</p>
<p>what do you mean contacted me too early? they contacted me too late - i live in ny i should have had an interview way earlier.</p>
<p>he also was saying he needed to schedule it as soon as possible and to contact him immediately ... so i'm assuming he's late. who knows?</p>
<p>my friend who works as a letter-opener (i had no better way to phrase that) in admissions at CU says that as of Monday night, they were not done with decisions.</p>
<p>whoa.</p>
<p>thats crazy late.</p>
<p>nonetheless. I think it's safe to assume they are done now.</p>
<p>if they say that you get the e-mails on the 7th, you will get the e-mails on the 7th. Columbia doesn't lie like penn about admissions!</p>
<p>Hey, I know that it's most definately too late but are you only contacted for interviews by people who live in your region or are these interviews done over the phone?</p>
<p>Is it possible that admissions was on the fence about an acceptance and wanted alulmni input?</p>
<p>Here's what happened, in all likelihood --- The interviewer f'ed up and forgot to contact you, and now wants to follow through and do the interview he was supposed to do last month. Given that he f'ed this up, he's probably clueless as to the fact that decisions are being sent out tomorrow and that it's much too late for the admissions office to receive his report and do anything with it. He most definitely does not know your admissions decision, as there's an Ivy League moratorium on interviewers getting decisions for ED until next Monday.</p>
<p>My advice is to wait for your decision (tomorrow), and contact him after that if you get deferred to schedule an interview.</p>
<p>I would answer his message today. I get really annoyed when I ask people to get back to me ASAP and I don't hear from them for several days (assuming I have reason to expect to hear from them, as your prospective interviewer has reason to hear from you). It is a matter of politeness. Oh, I know that it wasn't polite to wait so long to contact you, but that doesn't mean that you should behave poorly.</p>
<p>How would you be hurt if you wrote back and asked about the interviewer's availability for Saturday or Sunday and laid out your availability? If you are accepted, you can contact him or her tomorrow night with the good news and ask if he or she still wants to go through with it. If you are deferred, you can start your campaign to move the answer to a "yes" -- and you won't want to be working with someone you have alienated by not responding promptly.</p>
<p>I adamantly disagree with Grace. Wait until the decision, this person i'm guessing has a life and won't notice that you took a couple of days to respond. As long as you don't tell them you want the interview the next day it should be fine.</p>
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I adamantly disagree with Grace. Wait until the decision, this person i'm guessing has a life and won't notice that you took a couple of days to respond. As long as you don't tell them you want the interview the next day it should be fine.
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<p>Agreed; there's no harm in waiting. It's not like the interviewer is expecting to meet with you then because you already told him you would.</p>
<p>Why not just respond quickly and honestly: "Early admissions decisions are being mailed out tomorrow and I am confused as to how you can interview me when my admission decision has already been made? That said, if I am misunderstanding the situation and you want to do an interview, I am all for it."</p>
<p>Another possibliity is that the interviewer sent you the email weeks ago, but, for some reason, it didn't arrive until today. Emails can get lost for awhile sometimes. See if you can match the "sent" date with the "arrival" date.</p>
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Why not just respond quickly and honestly: "Early admissions decisions are being mailed out tomorrow and I am confused as to how you can interview me when my admission decision has already been made? That said, if I am misunderstanding the situation and you want to do an interview, I am all for it."
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<p>I don't like this and think it's kind of abrasive and insulting. It basically says "hey, interviewer, you're a dumba$s who doesn't know what the heck you're doing." While that's very likely true, it's going to come off badly to this guy.</p>
<p>Ah, we must agree to disagree Columbia. Perhaps rephrasing what I wrote slightly to make it sound a bit more modest is a good idea, but I don't see a problem with responding with the truth here.</p>
<p>I always try to protect myself in case of the worst-case scenario. So, I was trying to think of where I would want to be with this tomorrow afternoon if I were deferred. I personally would prefer having made the initial contact with the interviewer. I also would prefer not to seem rude or as though I did not think the interview (and thus the interviewer) were important. </p>
<p>The OP knows the tone of the email he or she received and how he or she operates and what he or she is comfortable with. Go with that, but do try to think it through from the perspective of what could happen tomorrow and where you want to be at that point.</p>
<p>My big hope for you is that you get the chance to say that you are in and to invite the potential interviewer to treat the interview as moot.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>collegeman, i thought what you wrote was pretty good...nothing disrespectful about it... thats the truth!</p>
<p>collegeman's suggestion can easily be taken the wrong way....</p>
<p>i still say wait, its only one more day.</p>