<p>I applied last year and got rejected an am reapplying this year. on the my mit account it has down the same EC as last year, is it possible for me to get a different EC? </p>
<p>I know there is at least one other that could interview me as my friend got a different interviewer.</p>
<p>You can always email the EC office and ask, although I’m not sure what the policy is on reassignment.</p>
<p>It also varies with the region. In most EC regions, EC’s are assigned by school, so that, for example, everyone applying from William McKinley High School, would all be assigned by a single EC, who would be expected to know WMHS intimately. In others, a single EC can interview kids from a huge range of high schools. This is definitely a question for the EC office.</p>
<p>Mikalye: it’s interesting that you say that because a friend in my grade at my high school was actually assigned a different EC. weird huh? But it makes sense that they’d try to do it by schools</p>
<p>abelinkin60: I think Mikalye was describing the typical situation - that doesn’t mean there aren’t exceptions. My school, for example, has an unusually large volume of applicants each year, and actually has a central coordinator assigned by MIT to distribute interview requests among local EC’s.</p>
<p>^^^ Hmmm…I think I can guess the name of your school. In any case, it’s not necessarily a bad thing that you’re scheduled to talk again with the same person. You’re definitely demonstrating a strong, consistent interest in MIT.</p>
<p>^^^ i considered that too about how i could show how ive improved and things like that. But what worries me is that I think the interviewer’s daughter is applying this year for EA to MIT. and i know MIT and the interviewer will say stuff like “it will be impartial” and stuff like that but i think it’d be hard for them to give a totally honest opinion since they dont want any students to look that much better than their daughter. (and i know they will not be able to interview their daughter)</p>
<p>That really surprises me. As a regional chair, I can assure you that should it happen that an interviewer has a close relative applying, then they definitely do not interview that year. We had a case like that last year. I was thrilled when my interviewer’s daughter got in early, and so he was able to do a few interviews in late December, but I was expecting him to be out all year. </p>
<p>That being said, these issues may be tricky. If for example, I had only one interviewer in the fictitious town of Distantville, which was hundreds of miles from any other (and I actually do have several remote interviewers who meet that criterion), then I would have to balance the badness of having him interview while clearly conflicted, with the badness of having that EC’s assigned interviewees travel for several hours to an alternate interviewer. Touch wood, that scenario has not ever happened in my region.</p>
<p>Such theoretical issues aside, the Educational Council Handbook is quite clear on this, saying on page 8, about EC’s whose son or daughter is planning on applying to MIT “You should not interview for your son or daughter’s high school that year.”</p>