<p>Apparently, state texting champion too. lol</p>
<p>Free translation:</p>
<p>As an international student from India…
2210 in SAT
800x780x800 SAT Subject Test in Physics chemistry math
3.9/ 4.0 GPA </p>
<p>1 st in state, 16th worldwide in intl sci olympiad</p>
<p>what chance do I have in getting into Harvard?
Does being international matter, if I need financial aid? </p>
<p>Bill in the mail.</p>
<p>Got contacted for an interview yesterday…odd thing is that mine is a phone interview. I live in a big city and pretty much all my friends have gotten in-person interviews. I guess my interviewer is just out of town or something?</p>
<p>for anyone who sees this, when do you think is the best time to give teachers a thank you note and possibly small gift for writing our recommendations? now, just after finishing college apps, after spring break when I’ve received my acceptances/rejections, or somewhere in between? thanks!</p>
<p>haha @ above posts!
Everybody wants hahvahd! xD :P</p>
<p>@clairbear29, did your interviewer had your application on his hand? My Princeton interviewer told me that he had no access to my application or academics at the beginning of the interview. So Harvard interviewers do get the applications?</p>
<p>Interviewers don’t get access to apps. They know your HS, your contact info, and indicated major preference, if any. THat’s it. No stats, no GPA, no essays. nada.</p>
<p>That was what I thought, but clairbear29 commented that the interviewer had the application right infront of him…</p>
<p>omg i feel like i’m going to throw up i just got an interview notification for Harvard!</p>
<p>T26E4 Is an interviewer picked to match an applicant’s desired major, when possible? Or is it just a random assignment? Also, does an interviewer report back with more than a number on a 1 to 6 scale or is there a statement and other questions?</p>
<p>@perazziman</p>
<p>Interviewers are assigned randomly. I intend to study biological sciences and I was assigned a Harvard Business School grad. He was very nice and I had the interview in a conference room at his office building (he’s the head of investment banking at Desjardins, a huge Canadian investment bank).
From my experience, he was jotting down information about me in a notebook, didn’t remember my high school but was sincerely interested in knowing about it. It felt too personal to just be a scale of 1 to 6 because never did he have set questions in front of him. The interview was truly an amical conversation (just like UChicago’s interview)
Hope that helps!</p>
<p>hi guys. just for those who are curious, a harvard alum interviewer rates the various qualities of an applicant on a scale of 1 to 6, with 1 being the best. i think there are plusses and minuses thrown in there too (1+ being the absolute best).</p>
<p>Interview assignments are random; I thought I addressed this earlier, perhaps it was in another thread.</p>
<p>We submit a written report in addition to “ratings.”</p>
<p>We are human and most if not all of us remember being on the other side of the conversation, so it should not be too surprising that applicants come out of interviews NOT feeling like a cut of beef. I think we also are mindful of representing the school, so we try to create a positive impression. I have only vague memories of the more positive interviews I had as a student, but that one really negative one with the clueless, arrogant alumnus burned itself into my mind. I would rather not have applicants looking back twenty years from now and remembering me the way I remember THAT guy.</p>
<p>Ugh. My H app is still incomplete.</p>
<p>-_-||</p>
<p>For those of you with Naviance, did your gc send the lors and transcript online or through reg mail?</p>
<p>Thanks ridethewave.</p>
<p>@alexissss my school uses Naviance and they sent all of that stuff online online</p>
<p>Are the only people that do alum interviews Harvard UNDERGRADUATE alums? I think it will be a little difficult to ask questions about undergrad life to a former grad/med/law student lol</p>
<p>oh shoot. I just found out my interviewer was a phd student. Does anybody have tips on what to ask her? I haven’t done very many alumni interviews D:</p>
<p>@flower
Same here…but H doesn’t have it.
:o Oh my glob.</p>
<p>thats weird. you should definitely go to the guidance office tomorrow and see whats going on.</p>