<p>I got the first part of my application in before Duke's interview deadline, but I have yet to be contacted for an interview. Is this a problem? I live in NYC, so I am pretty sure that I should be getting one...</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>It shouldn’t be a problem. There are a lot of students as i heard who got in without it.</p>
<p>It’s not a necessary component to your application file and I know a number of people, even those from the Raleigh area, who have been accepted without one.</p>
<p>if you get contacted and then you reject it …then it’ll look bad on you.
However, do note that there may be a lot of people who applied from NYC earlier than you. Perhaps, they ran out of alumnis…but do not fear because if you don’t get contacted at all…it’ll never hurt you at all. You will never be penalized for something you were never offered. Chill</p>
<p>I am “chill” and I know it won’t hurt me. I guess I was a little vague with the question, but what I really want to know is if this mean I am not getting one. Should I have gotten a request by now if I were going to be offered an interview?</p>
<p>Not necessarily. Interviewers have until mid-February to complete interviews, so it’s possible that the individual assigned to you hasn’t reached out yet (due to trying to spread out his/her interviews) or that once a reasonable number of interviews are completed, the chairman in your area will decide to assign more applicants to alumni in the area in a second round if there’s still time. (It’s simply a numbers issue). No way to know though. But, as previously stated, plenty of people get in without an interview. It won’t hurt you.</p>
<p>Don’t stress out about it.</p>
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<p>Alumni is the plural, no need for an ‘s’, by the way.</p>