<p>I emailed the EC that MyMIT listed, but he did not reply back. So after two weeks I decided to email him again. But when I opened MyMIT, it said that my interview had been waived because there were no interviews available in my area. Should I email <a href="mailto:interview@mit.edu">interview@mit.edu</a> to ask them if there are any interviews available in other parts of Holland or perhaps Belgium. I don't mind sitting in the train for a few hours just for the interview. I would love to have an interview because I have never actually met anyone who has studied in the US, let alone MIT.</p>
<p>You can (and should!) certainly email and ask, but it may be that there really isn’t anybody available to interview you.</p>
<p>Yes, it does seem odd. The EC directory lists 3 ECs in the Netherlands and 7 in Belgium, so I am surprised that your interview was waived, but it can happen. It regularly occurs that an interviewer has to miss out for a year. Either there is a conflict of interest (for example, none of us can interview in any year when we have a child applying to university (whether or no they are applying to MIT), Or I have one EC in my region who gave birth last week, and is quite reasonably taking the year off. Bu there is, for example, only a single EC in Utrecht. If that EC cannot interview this year, then voila, a bunch of potential waivers for the Utrecht applications that year.</p>
<p>I emailed the interview office, and within ten minutes I got a reply that another EC had been assigned. I have already emailed my new EC and hope to have the interview soon.
Thank you for your help.</p>