<p>Has anyone been contacted yet about local interviews? When does this process start</p>
<p>Interviews have been going on for some time now. You will be contacted by a Harvard alumni if there are enough alumni in your area. The consensus seems to be that whether or not you’re offered an interview is largely unrelated to the strength of your application. An interviewer will contact you if they’re available - make sure you check your spam and voicemail in case you missed it.</p>
<p>The interviews were due for most ivy leagues by the 15th. If you haven’t recieved an interview yet, you should contact the interview office immediately by calling into the school and ask them to set one up for you. They sometimes miss potential candidates to interview or your assigned interviewer just didn’t bother contacting you.
They might still accept an interview if you call them now.</p>
<p>To respond to what zinthafan said, it is not obligatory in any way to offer interview to every single applicants, only as many as can be accomodated by the number of alumni volunteers available. Also, forgeting to contact a student would be a serious failing on an assigned interviewer’s part, and I doubt very much that that would happen. The most likely explanation is that there weren’t enough (if any) interviewers for your area.</p>
<p>Not saying that calling the admissions office isn’t an option, but the most likely reply you’ll receive is to continue to wait patiently. Not having an interview would not necessarily jeopardize your chance and interviews are not offered based on the strength of the applications, except perhaps for the rare instances of second intervews, internationals, etc. </p>
<p>People have reported receiving interview offers in as little as a few days of sending in an application, of being offered interview even when application was not yet complete, such that it was impossible for their applications to have been even looked before interview offers were sent out. It’s also fairly common for people to be admitted without ever being interviewed. I was lucky enough to be interviewed for H, but I was also admitted to several schools where I was never offered an alumni interview.</p>
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<p>That’s not the case with Harvard. The deadlines are staggered, depending on what region an applicant is in. Some of the first round deadlines have passed; the final round starts at around the first week of March.</p>
<p>My husband does the interviews .He hasn’t done any since mid -March .</p>