<p>If my interview went pretty badly* and hasn't been processed yet (I had it a little over two weeks ago), do you guys think I should fill out the Conducted Interview form that will get MIT to follow up with the interviewer, or actually hope that the interviewer <em>won't</em> send in a report?</p>
<p>*The interviewer was about 30 minutes late to the meeting and the interview itself only lasted about 20 minutes...He didn't really seem like he wanted to be there, couldn't really answer any of my questions (went only for grad school a long time ago), and seemed slightly annoyed and offended at some of the questions he could answer.
Admittedly, I didn't do that well myself...Pretty nervous even before everything fell flat, have never liked interviews anyways, not a great speaker, etc.</p>
<p>A lot of interviews are done for confirmation purposes only. The "most credible" schools out there do interviews. They're seeing if you are for real and also making sure that you are not some maniac.If I were you, I wouldnt sweat it. Let your stats speak for themselves rather than you.</p>
<p>It might be a risky thing to do, but I would consider contacting your Admissions Counselor and telling her or him exactly what you have said here--perhaps softening the language as much as possible. Maybe you could suggest the interviewer seemed ill or terribly preoccupied and perhaps that's why he hasn't made his report?? You could at least get some reassurance that way.</p>
<p>i suppose you could request another interview. My friend had a terrible interviewer then asked for another one, which turned out great (she's living down the hall from me now btw) and she became good friends with her 2nd interviewer.</p>
<p>lol could that be me vecter is talking about?? But seriously, robbiejones12345, my first interview was similar to yours, 'cept that mine was actually an undergrad who claimed that he knew everything about people from my high school. I submitted the form so they could follow up on it, and then I called the office for help.</p>
<p>I eventually got a second interview (have you tried contacting the interview coordinator for your area?), which went VERY well. In any case, even if they aren't able to set up another interview, you can at least request that they make a note about it on your application. Don't stress out too much about the interview...</p>
<p>Hm. Getting a second interview sounds like a good idea, but I'm applying Early Action, so I'm not sure if that's possible. I'll try to find out =).
My Educational Counselor was my interviewer, by the way.</p>
<p>So basically, I should let MIT know that I did have an interview so that they'll contact my interviewer again and get some report, but try to get a second one if possible?</p>
<p>your EC is supposed to be your interviewer (just a fancy term)</p>
<p>call MIT admissions, explain what happened in a polite way (how your EC was late, was very hasty and uncomfortable, but don't be nasty or insulting in your description of your EC), and simply ask them if you could have another interview. politely. very politely :)</p>
<p>I called, and I was told that only one interview is allowed. The guy I spoke to said that all he could do was change the information on the website to show that I did have an interview, and that MIT would contact my EC to see about the report.
Just hoping now that the report won't be as bad as I'm expecting.</p>