<p>Good answer, Northstarmom. I agree with everything you said.</p>
<p>But I still feel this guy is out of bounds and that's he's going to try to rattle OP. OP should stay cool and collected.</p>
<p>{I was asked to bring a resume and unofficial transcript. Once I arrived, I was asked to list my SATI subscores, SATII scores, and AP scores. I don't know if that was normal either since most of the other interviews I've had didn't involve scores or grades.}</p>
<p>I do not know how normal this is neither by my Harcard interviewer emailed me a sheet that asks about my AP scorces, SAT IIs, PSATs, etc. I hope this interview will not be a critique of my grades and my test scorces.</p>
<p>I agree with whomever said that maybe it's to get you to relax a little bit. I know that quoting my SAT scores is much less nerve-wracking than being asked why I want to go to Harvard, because it's entirely objective and simple. </p>
<p>I haven't had my interview yet, but my interviewer asked me to bring along a resume. That seemed pretty normal, though.</p>
<p>Illininut, please re-post once you've had the interview.</p>
<p>Thanks to all of you for the input before the interview.....Interview over. </p>
<p>He is a very nice person. He is very tuned-in to high school education, with kids of his own about to apply to schools in the next few years. He acted more like an admission person i guess...He wanted to go through all of my classes, scores, and discuss my papers at length, find out about my other college choices and where i stood with them. He didn't critique, but he dug really really deep to see what i have done academically, results and why. a lot of minutae..... A few normal questions besides this. </p>
<p>Our time went very well in my opinion, but it really wasn't an interview about me or Harvard as such. I didn't ask the normal questions because it is for sure that he and I will live our college lives very, very differently, just based upon who he is and who I am. I really didn't care to know how he had fun, etc. No big deal. I had an on campus interview this summer with the senior admissions person for my part of the US which went great. This one won't matter much I assume....fingers crossed.</p>
<p>Thanks for the update. Sounds like it was tolerable but not much fun. Good luck!</p>
<p>Maybe he wanted all of those materials, and asked the questions that he did to try to help figure out how best to position his own kids for Harvard. Unfortunately, that's not the point of the Harvard interview. Fortunately for you, having a mediocre interview due to the interviewer won't hurt your application.</p>
<p>Northstarmom, I am sure this question was asked before, so I apologize...but I have heard so many times that if you are contacted for an interview, it merely means that there was an alumni in the area that could do it...still I wonder if those who are contacted early on, if it means something more. I noticed that kids accepted to their early schools, that I know, were given interviews earlier on than others at my child's school. So, I am just wondering if maybe sometimes a legacy or an otherwise outstanding applicant might get the call/email for an interview before others. I know I am probably wrong.</p>
<p>CMA1,
Having been the person in my area who was in charge of connecting alum volunteers with students to interview, my experience was that the timing was luck of the draw.</p>
<p>Thanks! My son's interviewer just emailed him, and he sounds very nice. He seemed very accomodating.</p>
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<p>Understatement of the year. He needs to be set straight, but how? </p>
<p>Thank God it went okay for you, Illininut. Thanks for reporting back--I was consumed with suspense while reading the thread for the first time just now!</p>
<p>when i had my interview, she told me that they're not supposed to ask you where else you are applying! i think your interviewer may need a refresher in interviewing! haha. btw, i got my interview e-mail MAYBE 2 weeks after submitting my application! does that mean anything at all?</p>
<p>Is it common to find the myspace account of the interviewer? Should it even come up? My friend says he found his interviewer's myspace.</p>
<p>When should I start worrying if I haven't been contacted for an interview yet and live in NYC?</p>
<p>Dude, this interviewer is batsh.it insane!</p>
<p>"btw, i got my interview e-mail MAYBE 2 weeks after submitting my application! does that mean anything at all?"</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>"Understatement of the year. He needs to be set straight, but how? "</p>
<p>The student's GC could call Harvard admissions and tell them. They can tactfully tell the head of the local School's (the interviewing) committee, and the chair can tactfully educate the interviewer or can stop asking that person to interview. None of this would cause any negative repercussions to the student who was interviewed.</p>
<p>The student also could call Harvard admissiosn to let them know. Believe me, the interviewer was out of line, and Harvard would want to know about that. Harvard wants the interviewers to leave the applicants with a good view of Harvard whether or not the applicants are admitted.</p>
<p>I've headed my local School's committee, so that's how I'd handle the situation.</p>
<p>^^ it all needs to happen after admission, and I hope it's admission both for the sake of our applicant and so that his/her testimony (and/or that of the GC) will not be suspected as spite. Of course the interviewer could deny everything, but I suppose there's email evidence. What a mess.. I wouldn't blame the candidate for doing nothing, either. You just want to move on from a situation like that. But I also agree that ideally, something would be done.</p>
<p>The applicant's calling or having a GC call would not hurt the applicant's admission chances at all. Harvard doesn't want interviewers to do things that are inappropriate. It's also not likely that the interviewer would be grilled about what he did. He'd probably simply be very tactfully told how to do interviews. Harvard is very nice to alum, including interviewers, so isn't going to scold the interviewer or anything like that. The interviewer probably would never know that a call was made to Harvard. Indeed, the local school's committee head might not know about the details of the interview. They may simply be told to tactfully go over interview procedures with that interviewer or they may be asked to use that interviewer only if they can't find someone else.</p>
<p>A big reason that the call should be made now is that it will help the admissions officers put the interview report into context. If the report doesn't add up, they might even make arrangements for the student to have a second interview.</p>
<p>^^^ Understood and agreed. And I didn't mean to imply that any action would affect the applicant's chances, only that an understandably nervous applicant would not want to do anything that might "jinx" his/her chances -- why take the risk? That's just how I would think, and I'm not claiming that it's strictly logical. But I definitely agree with your advice.</p>