<p>UPDATE: I am the OP for this thread. S was contacted today and has an interview scheduled for Weds. Keep fingers and toes crossed... Thanks for all who posted great advice and info!</p>
<p>still no interview contact here...</p>
<p>Why do people so desperate for interviews?? It's just another stressful thing, and it really doesn't affect your application!</p>
<p>Because I'm holding onto the hopeless notion that my likely letter hasn't come because I have yet to be contacted for an interview. ;)</p>
<p>haha, ok.</p>
<p>Kristina, maybe some people are 'desperate' for interviews because they have questions that they would like to have answered face to face, and have a conversation with someone who is knowledgable about the school. Conversation with an alum is far better than a hasty phone call to an overworked harried admissions staffer.
BTW, S said interview went well, and now we wait.
Good luck all, and again, thanks for all the positive input!</p>
<p>Snowman---most schools' newspapers break out the application stats as soon as they're counted...google The Dartmouth, you'll find the numbers.
I think this year was 15,700, up 10% ---I forget now...Also check IvySuccess</a> - Admission Strategists which gives a menu of app stats, percent changes vs. last year, etc. for ED, Reg. and overall. There have also been articles in the general media about this year's craziness, like the EA schools all being up wildly b/c Harvard and UVa eliminated Early altogether---Georgetown up like 40%.</p>
<p>Hey, don't worry about interview requests. I just got a likely letter this week and I never even heard from the admissions office about an interview. They are definitely not necessary for admission. I think they are just used to differentiate between two extremely similar applicants who each have a good chance at being admitted. Don't stress about it :)</p>
<p>I can easily understand getting a likely without an interview...and in one kid's case, without even submitting the peer rec...b/c liklies are high stat people they are trying to attract away from HYP. If you are not one of those clearly strataspheric applicants (as in me!), then any "added dimension" to your application is a good thing, and an interview can obviously be that. They need to woo high stats to compensate for (some of) the recruited athletes, many of whom barely make the 1200 SAT minimum. They have to shop for us like we shop for schools.
I heard that they don't have to read very far into some apps to accept them but for others, like me, they can use as much info as possible to give me a fair shake in the whopping 7 minutes that take to decide.
I am surprised tho that some of these are happening so late, since my interviewer had his reports due before the end of January. Wonder why...</p>
<p>At the admissions office we are now being informed that it is extremely unlikely you will be interviewed, but that this will have no bearing on your app. I am getting a lot of worried calls from California and New York, so the usual logic that "We're in the middle of urban civilization, surely we will get an interview" does not apply. We're overwhelmed with apps.</p>
<p>An alumnus just called me to schedule an interview for this week (in fact, I am friends with his daughter: same school, same town), so I guess that they are still in the process of conducting them. So for anyone that has not been contacted yet, perhaps there is still hope (though it is not as if not having the opportunity to interview is going to hurt one's chances)?</p>