<p>Is it probable that many of the applications were thrown out in a preliminary round? Like a week after they came in, or will all apps. recieve the final decision in the same round and roughly the same time period? Is it possible that an interview was entirely pointless and your application was thrown out long before you met with your interviewer? I don't know why I need to know these things lol.</p>
<p>No, I'm curious about this as well.</p>
<p>I think it's possible. Only a selected few applicants from Korea are granted after quite some time (most likely only those who passed the first round). I was contacted by my interviewer today, after a month of anxious waiting and nail-biting...lol...</p>
<p>But you never know with adcoms:)</p>
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<p>will all apps. recieve the final decision in the same round and roughly the same time period?</p>
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<p>Yes, they will. The entire committee votes on every application. If you didn't get an interview, it was due to logistics, not lack of interest on Harvard's part.</p>
<p>I don't think so, otherwise, why would they waste their time with interviews. If they threw out applicants, then they would say that selected people get the interview. To tell you the truth.....now I'm starting to think that decisions are based on a game of heads or tails.</p>
<p>As a current student here who has friends who work in the admissions office, all applicants get a thorough read. They most definitely wait until your interview form is in your file. If by a certain time (if you didn't contact the admissions office regarding your not being contacted for an interview by a certain date) you haven't had an interview, your file will be considered without it.</p>
<p>yea I got my interview at the beginning of November. I was really worried about SAT scores actually. I took the Nov. SAT and they say they "usually" get them, but do they mean "usually" as in "the candidates we really want will still be in the running when scores are sent out, others will not and so we dont need those SAT scores".</p>