<p>Hi everyone! I have a question that hopefully someone here could help answer for me. I recently emailed my EC on the 8th and I got an email back the following day saying that my interviewer had been changed and I should contact him. I did the following day on the 10th which was the deadline for contacting all ECs. I had already previously contacted my original EC on the 8th, so I think there should be no problem there. However, I have still not received an email back and I'm beginning to worry a bit. I contacted MIT and they told me to wait up to two weeks, but I'm still concerned over the fact that I maybe will not be able to get an interview and that would be incredibly disappointing. Has anyone else gone through something similar or any advice? Thank you :) </p>
<p>My son’s interviews were canceled and rescheduled a number of times such that whenever there was another one rescheduled, I just told him to make other plans because he would be ready to go and be disappointed when it was canceled. He eventually was interviewed and he thought it went well (it did but he was eventually waitlisted). They will get to your interview soon, just be patient. (DS did get into Caltech).</p>
<p>As a regional chair of the Educational Council, it is absolutely something we try to avoid, but it does happen. I once have had an EC die during the interview season. I didn’t know about it. Notifying MIT isn’t a high priority for the family when a loved one dies, but obviously enough, all of this EC’s students had their e-mails go unanswered. Nonetheless, all of them did get interviewed, and none of them suffered any disadvantage in the admissions process, apart from the stress. </p>
<p>Most of the time, it is more prosaic. I must have received some 30 interview related mails in the last 10 days, and two nights ago I clambered through the junk folder, and there were 2 interview requests that my mail provider had auto-classified as Spam. Why were these two different from the other 30 that did get through? I will never know, but the end result is that it took about a week to get back to those two applicants. I apologized profusely, but these things happen. I have personally had a laptop die while on a business trip and had no access to e-mail for more than a week. I had one EC a few years ago, whose ISP went bankrupt and it took a while for her to get another provider. Random stuff happens. We know that this is incredibly stressful for candidates, we do try to minimize it, but it can happen. All I can suggest is not stressing too much. If we screw up, we do everything we can to make it right. In a worst case scenario (say the only EC for hundreds of miles simply cannot interview), we can offer a Skype interview. I am sorry about the stress, but this should be sorted out.</p>
<p>I’m a former EC, and Mikalye speaks the truth. One thing that you can do that will help you is to be flexible. It’s easier to reschedule the interview if you have 10 options for time than if you have 1 or 2.</p>