I contacted my EC 3 weeks ago. About a week ago I got an email from him that he will get back to me soon. I am applying EA and need to have a day of my interview listed on my application. Should I contact him again?
Yes, you can go ahead and contact him again, explaining why you are doing so.
(This is coming straight from an MIT email that went out about the interview)
Still did not hear back regarding interview. I am ready to submit my EA application, but I need to fill in information for my interview first. Also tomorrow is the last day to contact EA. I just sent another email to him.
I’m in the same situation. My EC hasn’t responded to e-mail and he didn’t even have a voicemail set up.
If you have any problems setting up your interview, email interview@mit.edu and we’ll sort them out
I am a regional chair of my educational council, and I can assure you that these things do happen. In my region this year, I have several students who are having problems with interviews. I have one EC who wrote to me this morning to tell me that their employer is shipping them out of town this weekend. That EC has several interviews scheduled over the next couple of weeks. I am having to move all of those applicants tonight. Several of them are applying early action, and they will not even have an EC assigned much less an interview date until later tonight. MIT really, truly understands that these things happen. All of those applicants will have interviews, in time for the EA deadlines (and I have 9 kids who will have their interview shortly after the deadline, which has all been agreed with the admissions office). It truthfully will not matter to the applications decision. It will cause these poor kids stress, and I really truly regret that stress, but I also recognise that our alumni EC are often very busy, very successful people, who give huge amounts of of time, and sometimes things happen, and we respond. Do write to interview@mit.edu if you haven’t heard from your EC, but if your EC says that he will respond soon, and you will get an interview, then do not fret, even if you do not have a date.
Hi @MITChris (just tagging you to make sure someone credible answers)
I’m in a similar situation as Alamalaki was in, but closer to the deadline. I emailed my EC on October 16 and again on the 20 about scheduling an interview. He hasn’t responded yet. I understand that I’ve given him just over a week to respind, but I’m becoming anxious about getting it done as November 1 approaches. I know that I was and am cutting it close for the EA deadline, but I want to get it done before the 1st if at all possible. I emailed interview@mit.edu yesterday and am hoping for a swift response. I’m assuming that they just work weekdays, so I really hope they respond tomorrow. So my questions are-
-When is the deadline for completing the interview for EA?
-Would it be okay to email my EC again?
-Will admissions get back to me this week?
-Also, my EC has a phone number listed on my application dashboard, but I’m not sure if I should call him or not. The MIT admissions website doesn’t say anything about calling ECs, so I kind of assumed that it’s just for emergencies on the day of the interview. Would it be okay/ normal to try calling him to set an interview up?
I can take a stab at these. Ordinarily, all parts of the application, including the interview report need to be received by the admissions office by 1 November. That being said, the admissions office does understand that disasters with the interview can happen, that are not necessarily the applicant’s fault. In my region, we have a very small number of applicants (whom the admissions office is aware of) who will be interviewed in the first week of November, and the admissions office will get these reports in that week. It can happen, and those students are not disadvantaged by this in any way.
The folks at interview@mit.edu are very efficient, but yes, they work office hours Monday to Friday. They should get to your letter on Monday. What they may do for a non-responsive EC is to reassign you to a new EC. Then you will need to write to your new EC on Monday to request an interview, and inform them that you had requested an interview on 16 October, but your EC was non-responsive. It does suck when these things happen, but they are almost always successfully sorted out.
@MITChris Never mind, they got back to me and my new EC responded within 2 hours!! WOW 
Yeah, the catchall honestly is to email interview@mit.edu. We average ~24hrs for all responses across all of our email accounts and faster for actual applicants (as opposed to general inquiries).