<p>As per latest information, the following people have received interviews from MIT in India:</p>
<p>New Delhi</p>
<p>Akshat Bubna
Karun Singh
Animesh Tripathi</p>
<p>Pune </p>
<p>Anish Sevekari
Nihal Pednekar</p>
<p>Bangalore</p>
<p>Abhinav Natarajan
Vikramaditya Giri
Manjul Pahwa</p>
<p>Kolkata</p>
<p>Sagnik Saha
Prachatos Mitra
Souktik Roy</p>
<p>Likely (tick missing on MIT portal)</p>
<p>Shantanu Chhabra (Delhi)
Pranav Nuti (Hyderabad)</p>
<p>Did you or someone else you know receive an interview from MIT for the Class of 2018 in India? </p>
<p>How did you get this info. I know two of 'em</p>
<p>This is the final MIT shortlist for India. May have a few more people.</p>
<p>What detective agency is at work here? :O</p>
<p><em>bookmarked</em></p>
<p>Updated list:</p>
<p>New Delhi</p>
<p>Akshat Bubna
Karun Singh
Animesh Tripathi</p>
<p>Pune</p>
<p>Anish Sevekari
Nihal Pednekar</p>
<p>Bangalore</p>
<p>Abhinav Natarajan
Vikramaditya Giri
Manjul Pahwa
Sadhana Senthilkumar </p>
<p>Kolkata</p>
<p>Sagnik Saha
Prachatos Mitra
Souktik Roy</p>
<p>Hyderabad</p>
<p>Pranav Nuti</p>
<p>Is it on a random basis or for pre screened select students only?
If its the later, how high are their chances?</p>
<p>MIT has selective interviews in India. Initially, all interviews are waived, and in February, a selected group of applicants are interviewed. MIT usually takes about 5-6 Indians each year including several medalists, so you can guess their chances.</p>
<p>FYI, I am not on the list. Just an MIT hopeful for next year 
Of course, you can guess my idol from the username if you’re smart enough.</p>
<p>Btw, how did you get this list?
@HatsOnAKeboob</p>
<p>I know several people on the list.</p>
<p>HatsOnAKeboob,
I didn’t get who your idol is. Explain please!’
And second, I don’t think MIT has selective interviews in India. Can you provide the source to corroborate your stance? The same kind of thing is said about Harvard too but that, too, is unsubstantiated (like this)</p>
<p>MIT has selective interviews in India but they deny it, although my interviewer did say that MIT asks ECs to find out more about the applicants the adcom thinks can do well at MIT, which basically implies that they are selective. Either way, they are just going to take in the medalists + 1 I guess, so yeah.
Harvard has selective interviews; refer to <a href=“https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/application-process/what-we-look/interview”>https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/application-process/what-we-look/interview</a>, specifically the section on countries with limited interviews (India is listed).</p>
<p>^ It says India is a country with less number of alumni, so it depends on alumni availability rather than on anything else and on if they require more info.
On another note, how many of these are international medalists? Just curious.</p>
<p>Well, the adcom only wants to know more about candidates they might accept. I’m pretty confident that H offers selective interviews in India, or at least, that no one is accepted to either schools (MIT / H) without an interview.</p>
<p>These are the medalists from that list:
Akshat Boobna, Nihal Pednekar: IOI Bronze
Anish Sevekari, Pranav Nuti: IMO Bronze
Sagnik Saha: IMO Silver</p>
<p>I’m not mentioning (Dis)Honorable Mentions. :P</p>
<p>Amol Bhave, Anshuman Panda, and Ishan Chugh: none of them were offered an interview but were still accepted to MIT. I don’t have data for Harvard though. And I Disagree that more info is required only for those candidates who are to be offered admission. Maybe their apps didn’t offer as deep insight as the admission office wants. Unless there is proof, factual or observed, I will be reluctant to believe that.
MIT is next to impossible for me.But I’m hopeful that at least one of them will offer me a place. :)</p>
<p>Of course you can hope! It’s not like getting an interview means anything anyway, because essentially non-medalists are competing for 1-2 spots (using the trend from previous years at least).
How did you find out the three you mentioned didn’t get an interview btw?</p>
<p>Anshuman Panda lived well away from Kolkata and I’m guessing that he didn’t have access to Skype either. I’ve heard that Amol Bhave was probably from a location without Ecs as well, but he might have had a Skype interview. How did you find out that the people you mentioned didn’t get interviewed?</p>
<p>As for Harvard, look at the people they interview and you’ll realize that the list is anything but random.</p>
<p>Of course the interviews are selective! An MIT EC explained to a close friend that until two years ago, MIT used to interview every applicant from India. Since MIT is the dream school for a lot of Indians, a lot of people would apply, some using fee waivers. This particular EC himself took around 20 interviews over two months in one admissions cycle. </p>
<p>Last year, the admissions committee at MIT decided that this could not go on, and that competitive applicants would be selectively interviewed from the applicant pool. MIT has been practicing selective interviews in India over the last two years. Harvard also has selective interviews, and applicants from this batch have started receiving interview calls. Yes, this means that if you have no interview invitations from these two colleges, you will not get in. In fact, in the case of Harvard, an interview indicates a very high probability of acceptance. </p>