Have any international students (especially from Brazil) received interviews from Duke and Northwestern?
This question is more of a curiosity but I’m asking because I received interview requests from several colleges (UPenn, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, and CMU), but haven’t heard a word from Duke and Northwestern said there were no alumnus available to interview me. I asked a couple of friends from Brazil and, for RD, almost no one received interviews from either of these universities.
For duke, I believe you have had applied early december or something like that, as they don’t have that many people that do interviews. I applied to Northwestern and I had an interview (I am an international), however I don’t think that you don’t getting one means anything, they say that will depends on alumni available. I actually also had an interview with Dartmouth, Princeton and Upenn, however i didn’t get one from Columbia or Yale.
It’s true; Duke said that we needed to apply before December 20th to get an interview. I ended up applying by December 19th, so I don’t know if being so close to the deadline had any impact (I don’t think so).
According to what I know, not having an interview isn’t something bad, as you said, but I don’t know; it would’ve been better if I’d gotten one haha.
Anyway, I hope you receive good news from the colleges you applied to!