You certainly can if you want to. However, it’s pretty late in the process – by this time of year, the admissions officers are typically in selection committee, and there’s no guarantee they’ll see your update.</p>
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Interviews are important, but it’s certainly not that high a percentage of current students who interviewed – the interview is absolutely not required, after all. </p>
<p>For international applicants in particular, interviewers are often thin on the ground, and it’s not unusual not to be able to have an interview. But hennebou is right – you should have had interviewer contact information (or else notice that your interview was waived) in your MyMIT account. For MIT, applicants contact interviewers, not the other way around. Perhaps you created your account after the deadline to contact interviewers (Dec 10) had already passed?</p>
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I don’t know how your region is doing interviews, so I can’t say. I’ve never heard of interviews being assigned on the basis of application strength/quality, though. I know that some interviewer-strapped regions will interview as many applicants as they can on the basis of the date Part I of the application was submitted, but as far as I’m aware, they have no access to your application, nor does the admissions committee give them any information about you other than your secondary school.</p>
<p>@quiverfox @molliebatmit I have submitted my Part1 in the first week of September. I haven’t gotten any interview until now. I don’t know whether to worry about it or not! </p>
<p>Hi Mollie,
why is the deadline for Financial Aid Feb 15? I thought the admission is need blind. I mean why should the the SFS go throug all applications if just around 10% of the applicants are accepted at MIT?</p>
<p>If SFS waited until they knew which students would be admitted before putting together aid packages, they wouldn’t be able to get the packages to admitted students with sufficient time for students to decide whether to attend MIT by May 1.</p>
<p>MIT is truly need-blind – there is no communication between the financial aid office and the admissions office. The financial aid office has no idea which students will be admitted, and the admissions office has no idea how much financial aid is being offered to anybody.</p>
<p>I sent in the FASFA and CSS well before Feb. 15th, but my 2011 tax returns were postmarked the 19th. Will this affect by financial aid in anyway?</p>
<p>Having some materials arrive late may affect the date your financial aid package is available, but it won’t affect the amount of aid you’re awarded. You can send in an aid application as late as you want, and you’ll still be awarded a package according to your financial need, but SFS can’t guarantee that they’ll be able to put together that package prior to the May 1 deadline to choose a school.</p>
<p>Hi Mollie,
thanks for the reply. I’m not so certain exactly when I created mymit account, but I’m assuming I created my account after Dec.10th. In my account, it only appears that my interview has not been conducted and that it’s too late for interviews. Also, no educational counselor’s name appears on the account. Is it safe to assume that the interviews are waived by the office? I don’t think I had access to the info that I should create mymit account prior to Dec. 10th.</p>
<p>Just one more question. How many students are admitted to MIT without any interviews? Of course, if I get rejected or waitlisted, it won’t be due to not being offered an interview. But I want to know some statistic and ensure it. Thanks.</p>
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I just found out and read this page. It was somewhat upsetting that I was very hesitant in creating the account because my high school university counselor was very persistent in persuading me to not apply to MIT because of how unlikely the admission is. In the page, it clearly states those who didn’t have an interview are in lot of disadvantages. Should I email the adcom about this? It’s quiet depressing that it’s very late and the excuse won’t do anything since the decisions are probably made already.</p>
The number is not large, but it’s nonzero. I myself was admitted to MIT without an interview.</p>
<p>Really, it’s not that students who choose not to interview are put at a disadvantage – the admissions officers don’t think poorly of them. The interview is like extra credit. It’s true that the admissions process is very competitive, and it’s useful to give yourself any extra points you can, but the interview is not required for application or admission to MIT.</p>
<p>They’ll announce it as soon as they’re able to set a date – the announcement could be as early as next week. They do like to release results on Pi Day, but obviously they can only release them that early if they’ve gotten through selection on time.</p>
<p>Do you know why they have not released the number of applications? Are there too many applications, or they are short of people handling the admission this year?</p>
<p>Hi! I have been curious about the admission process of some universities… and I have read that nowadays some universities’ admission office check applicants’ profiles in social media (facebook, twitter, youtube) to get to know more about them. </p>
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