<p>For the interview, are we expected to bring anything, like a resume, or should we expect that they already know something about us from harvard's files?</p>
<p>You might want to email the interviewer to ask. They all treat the interview differently - some will bother to look at whatever files they are given, whereas some would rather not have resumes/scores and stuff, because they just want to have a more relaxed general chat.</p>
<p>They will know nothing about you besides your name and, maybe, the school you are from. This is, in a sense, the point of the interview: for the admissions office to receive a perspective of you derived exclusively from information obtained in a personal, face-to-face encounter. Dress appropriately: a button-down and khakis or something along those lines should be appropriate in someone’s house, more formal settings mandate more formal clothing. Other than that, you should just bring a resume. They help move the conversation along. No need for writing samples or anything like that. - a current student</p>
<p>D brought her resume as well as her CA application and supplement. She did this for every interview she had. In that way it is available for the interviewer if they want it but can also be left in the folder if not. Specifically MIT wanted nothing and actively pushed it away (same experience of older brother who had the same interviewer). D’s Harvard interviewer wanted everything, including the folder holding the papers. Ironically there were papers in the folder that were not intended to be handed over. I guess they did not hurt her. 
Point is that each interview and interviewer will be different. Come prepared for a variety of possibilities.</p>
<p>I’ve read that you can bring a resume, but I have also read that they can take it as a little bit cocky. I didn’t bring any extra materials, and instead I went in just knowing my resume by heart to discuss. Which after all these applications, should be a piece of cake</p>
<p>DD’s interviewer requested a copy of her transcript beforehand (which we thought was a bit much), he also gladly took the resume she brought.</p>
<p>^ I’m pretty sure that violates Harvard protocol. The interviewer would get in trouble if Harvard found about it.</p>
<p>^ The only school, that I recall from my two kid’s college interivews, who was determined to have no additional material at the interview was MIT.</p>
<p>I can check with my daughter about her two Harvard Adcom interviews. If they also took the same stuff that the HARVARD alum took, then you know that providing a resume is fine. I know my daughter brought all the same stuff with her, the question is what did they use.</p>
<p>^ BTW sorry about the capitals on the word HARVARD. It gives the impression that I intended emphasis, which I did not. I inserted the word at the end and apparently did not notice that I hit the cap lock. Ooops</p>
<p>Although it depends on your interviewer, I brought my resume (with my standardized test scores on it) and my interviewer mentioned something along the lines of, “Harvard always asks us to get the ‘standard data’ on applicants - test scores, subject tests, all that good stuff - and having it all summed up definitely makes the process easier.”</p>
<p>My Harvard interviewer requested my resume and test scores beforehand. It definitely made things run more smoothly. He prepared questions specifically for me and several anecdotes regarding experiences of his own.</p>
<p>I just had mine, and I didn’t bring or need anything. They took notes of everything I said, and at the end they did ask for my SATs SAT IIs and APs at the end (I say they because there were two).</p>
<p>My interviewer told me that Harvard suggests bringing SAT scores, but he didn’t really understand why because they have already been submitted anyway. I ended up bringing those, my transcript, and a list of activities, but I don’t think you need that much.</p>
<p>For our D’s alum interview, she was emailed a form to complete and bring with her. In addition, she had to attach a photo. The form was basically a resume. She attached her prepared resume in addition to completing the emailed form.</p>