<p>i had my interview about 2 weeks ago, but it says my interviewer hasnt submitted the write-up… I was wondering if I should email my interviewer as a reminder?</p>
<p>There should be a link somewhere to notify MIT that you’ve had your interview, but the interview report doesn’t appear. You should use that link when it’s available.</p>
<p>yeah i clicked on that and now it says ive conducted my interview…
but how do i know that my EC actually turned in an evaluation?</p>
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<p>You don’t, nor should it matter. Believe me, if your file is flagged as a “C” (interview conducted but no report received), then MIT and the EC office will chase your interviewer for the report. You do not need to fret about that. There is plenty of legitimate things you can work on to make your application stronger. Chasing a recalcitrant EC is not one of those.</p>
<p>Hi there.</p>
<p>I have my interview in few days, and I’m a bit worried. The point is that I’m traveling about three hours to meet my interviewer, and right now I realize that he might be busy and not have enough time to spend with me. But at the same time, he is aware that I’m traveling for three hours to meet him so he might feel bad about just giving me a 15 minutes interview, whilst at the same time he can not do more than that because being a prominent engineer he might be very busy with his job. I haven’t talked to him about this “being busy” thingy, it’s just things that are running in my mind. How long do you think the interview will last?</p>
<p>^I don’t really understand why you’re worried, enb0x. What’s to worry about? You have an appointment with your EC, right? So he’s already made a commitment to you. He’s volunteered to do this EC job, and he’s going to live up to his commitments.</p>
<p>Are you saying you’re worried that he won’t be available at all once you get there? Or that he won’t give you as much time as you might want?</p>
<p>If it’s the first thing, then (really) stop worrying. He’ll be available if he said he would be.</p>
<p>If it’s the second thing, well, I wish you could stop worrying about that too. Your interview is going to be long enough for the EC to do his job. My son’s interview was only 35 minutes. He felt great about it. I’m sure you read on here that some interviews were considerably longer.</p>
<p>This second concern … will he be able to give you as much time as you want (if that’s your concern) … kind of falls into the category of worrying about (wishing to control?) somebody else’s territory. It’s the EC’s concern, not yours. The only thing you can do is trust the EC to do his job. You can’t control anything else about that process.</p>
<p>If you’re having second thoughts about driving 3 hours one-way for an interview that might only last 30 minutes … well, there’s nothing wrong with reconsidering and canceling the interview, due to the huge amount of time you have to invest getting there and back.</p>
<p>But if you want to do the interview, then please try to just relax. You only need to concern yourself with the things that you can control. Good luck to you! And, please, try to enjoy the interview! After all that driving, you should be proud of yourself for making your appointment and enjoy getting to know this person and more about MIT through him.</p>
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<p>Thank you SimpleLife. You made my life simpler!</p>
<p>^I’m glad I could help! If you try to kick back a little bit and be yourself and simply enjoy the “conversation” together (which is really what a college interview is – a conversation), then I think you’ll be glad you went! :)</p>
<p>You know, most colleges will say that their interviews can rarely hurt an applicant – they can generally only help. 
The reason is basically this: aside from anything outlandishly weird or even alarming (I’ve read some blogs about applicants LYING about their accomplishements or interests during their interviews! ???), the interviewers are going to like you and not going to have anything negative to say about you. In general. For just about everybody. The interviewer you’re driving out to meet is going to WANT to like you!</p>
<p>And chances are good that he will! :)</p>
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<p>There are many things that can be legitmate worries. That your interviewer will be “too busy” is definitely not one of them. Yes, EC’s can be busy people. In my region alone, I have one EC who is the CEO of an extremely large corporation, one who is a very senior officer in a multinational bank, one who runs a large governmental organisation. Yes, we get a lot of busy people. But what defines a busy person as such is that they have a lot of things that they have committed to do. An MIT interview is one of them. All of the ECs are volunteers. They do not have to do this, they are not paid to do this, and they are even graded on their volunteer efforts.</p>
<p>Your EC will devote as much time to the interview as he or she thinks that the interview needs. My personal interviews run until I have enough to write a sensible report. Sometimes that happens quickly, more often not. Most of my interviews run at about 70 minutes, but I have done 35 minute interviews and 2 hour interviews. When I get an unexpectedly long interview, then I reschedule my appointments after that. If I have appointments that I cannot reschedule, then I do not accept that timeslot for an interview. Do not fret.</p>
<p>If you want something done, ask a busy person.</p>
<p>I had my interview today, it went fine I think. This topic, advices here, helped me quite a lot in my interview. Thank you and good luck to the others.</p>
<p>^Yay! That’s great, endb0x! So glad it went well (you “THINK!” – worry much?) Congrats on the huge effort you put into that interview. Driving 3 hours one-way to interview for a university is pretty committed!</p>
<p>Had my interview yesterday. This thread was really helpful. Thanks.
Mine was a two-hour drive, interview went on for two hours, two hour drive back (yup, most of my day)
Questions asked:
-What drives you to succeed?
-Who is your best friend and what will he say about you?(if he was asked, I guess)
-If you were given all the resources in the world and no higher institutional education, what will you do with them?
-What will you do if you had too much work and too little time?
-What will you do if you had too little time and too much time? (basically, eventually “what do you do for leisure?”)</p>
<p>Might’ve missed one. Hope there’s nothing wrong in my posting them here.</p>
<p>Loved the interviewer, he was very proud of MIT. Got his BSc, MSc there, and lectured.
It also really was more like a two-way discussion and him relaying his experiences there.
That has its disadvantages though because when you’re into the conversation and he goes back to the interview questions, it kind of throws you off balance. But yeah, It was generally really good. Even if I don’t get in, I’m glad I had the honor of meeting someone so adult, yet awesome. </p>
<p>By the way, he asked me about my scores in various exams and wrote them down. Don’t know why but they were good though, and he smiled. In his head he probably was like “This is MIT material” :P</p>
<p>And I thought it was pretty mediocre.
Now I think it was downright terrible in retrospect.
My EC and I shared almost no common interest. From sports, to my planned major, to music, and hobbies, we had little to talk about. I liked math, he didn’t. He liked soccer, I liked frisbee much more. I liked to practice violin, he didn’t care much for that.
We ended up spending about more time rambling about weather than any other subject, and the whole interview ended up being 35 minutes long.
Is this something I should be concerned about?</p>
<p>By the way, when the interview is done, is there going to be any change in mymit account? Because I don’t see any. The name of my interviewer is written to be X, but when I contacted X, she said she’s not in the country so she suggested me to contact Y. I contacted Y and had interview with him, but the name has remained the same --X. What should I do?</p>
<p>@mseessquared No, you shouldn’t be concerned about the length. A longer interview does not necessarily mean a better interview and a shorter interview doesn’t necessarily mean a worse interview. I don’t think you should also be concerned about your sharing the same interests either. Obviously, it would have probably helped if you did but it’s not like he’ll be reporting what interests you share. I think you should primarily be concerned about how well you answered the questions.</p>
<p>@endb0x You shouldn’t have done that! I had the same problem. I emailed MIT and they changed my interviewer almost instantly. You shouldn’t worry though, maybe you should tell interviewer Y to indicate in the report that he/she was taking the place of interviewer X because it might seem like MIT gave you an interviewer and you chose another for yourself. At the same time they might not notice, and end up just evaluating whatever report they see.</p>
<p>To whom should I send the e<em>mail? Can you give me the exact e</em>mail address, and I will explain everything to them !</p>
<p>Here you go, “<a href=“mailto:interview@mit.edu”>interview@mit.edu</a>”</p>
<p>endb0x, don’t worry… You didn’t do anything wrong. You just need to contact them and let them know who you interviewed with and why. No big deal. My son said he read something somewhere about this … maybe in the email about interviews? In a MIT admissions blog? You might find exact guidance somewhere like that. It will all get straightened out. And when it is, you’ll see your interview details on your application status checker. It takes some time before it changes… he’s got to write the report, etc. It’ll all work out.</p>
<p>How long does it usually take for an EC to respond to an interview request? Is it possible that they have no space left anymore? I contacted my EC at least a couple days ago, so it is still at least 3 weeks before the scheduling deadline. Could I end up getting denied an interview at my own expense? I did contact them a good time before the deadline, which is December 10. </p>
<p>Also, do interviews go on after the scheduling deadline? The actual application deadline is January 1, so I’m guessing interviews go on past December 10?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>^ You contacted them a couple of days ago. They’re probably not glued to their email The scheduling deadline is just that - a scheduling deadline. It’s not when the interview must be held. I believe they get their interview reports in on January 1st.</p>