<p>Apparently I didn't get Harvard interview for early admission while other students from other schools got interview opportunity. My school counselor said that other students got offered interview because they have either athletic talents or legacy. And also said that due to not having interview offered I will not be accepted to the school.</p>
<p>My questions: Will I not have chance for regular admission?
Will I have an interview opportunity for regular admission later on?
Were there cases that applicants got accepted without having interviews?</p>
<p>Thank you for reading this and please Help.</p>
<p>Harvard doesn’t arrange interviews; local Harvard Clubs do, usually through their schools committees. They offer interviews to as many applicants as they can, but the number of applicants has grown way faster than the number of alumni who volunteer, so not all applicants get an interview. And neither the College nor the Harvard Clubs screen applicants before they offer alumnni interviews.</p>
<p>Getting or not-getting an interview is a matter of the luck of the draw, and nothing more. I wasn’t offered an interview when I applied (admittedly, in 1981), and I was admitted.</p>
<p>Your chances of admission to the College are just the same now as they were the day you pressed “submit.” Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news. I have interviewed a couple of truly phenomenal applicants who were not offered admission. I have also spent time interviewing a couple of applicants who, to be blunt, were deluding themselves when they applied in the first place. (I guarantee you nobody pre-screened those applicants!)</p>
<p>But I think if you’re an international (assuming you are) and especially if you’re from Korea, the case might be different. Interviews are limited in countries like Korea and it seems like if you get one, it means you passed “round 1.” (I’m really not sure, but reading older forums, that seems to be the case) </p>
<p>Once again, in countries like Korea, interviews are seemed to be given to the most competitive applicants.</p>
<p>It says that some countries have limited interviewers and some students may be directly contacted. Although it states non-interviewed students are not disadvantages, some anecdote seems to imply that admitted students from these countries tend to have been interviewed more often than not…</p>
<p>Granted, given the extremely small numbers we are discussing, it’s hard to extrapolate. But if I were in one of the limited coverage countries, and I got invited to interview, I would take it as a hopeful sign.</p>
<p>Clearly speculative and, based on the content in T26E4’s link, probably baseless. In any event, it should be ignored. It is beyond the OP’s control and will only cause unnecessary worry. Good luck to all.</p>
<p>yeah dude i’d worry more about the fact that your guidance counselor is so hostile than the fact that you didn’t get an interview (it sounds like you come from one of those overbooked areas anyway)</p>
<p>my own interview situation was weird in that a couple days later the woman who interviewed me emailed to say that harvard told her i was a “priority interviewee”? from an honest assessment i can say that i’m DEFINITELY not an auto-admit, nor am i a urm/athletic recruit/whatever. did a lot of you guys on here hear something similar?</p>
<p>At least for domestic applicants, we know very little, actually. Name, address, email, phone and the name of your high school. That’s about it, really. Just enough information to schedule the interview. (And to let us figure out whether it wouldn’t be appropriate for us to interview you. For example, I was once assigned to interview the son of the people who’s sold us the house we now live in.)</p>
<p>I guess if your friend was interviewed, you must have a much better idea than I have what information the Harvard Club gives me about the candidates they want me to interview.</p>
<p>No I don’t have a better idea. My friends experience shows me that for at least some candidates, the interviewer knows a little more info than basic stuff.</p>
<p>Sherpa: This isn’t baseless. Just read older CC threads and you’ll see all the internationals who got interviews (where there wasn’t any interviewer in their area) got either accepted or waitlisted. </p>
<p>And my interviewer remembered everything from my application.</p>