<p>If I have not heard about an interview yet, should I contact admissions?</p>
<p>^I wouldn’t advise it just yet. If you’re certain that you’ve indicated your interest in an interview and you haven’t heard yet, it’s probably because of a shortage of interviewers in your area or the possibility that your interviewer is having a busy couple of weeks. Not having an interview will not be to your detriment, but if you’re really concerned I’d suggest contacting the office in early Feb. I say this because if the emails I’ve been getting from all my colleges are telling the truth, January appears to be administrative hell for college admissions offices, and the last thing they might want is a paranoid applicant calling in to ask about a non-compulsory interview even when they’ve indicated that interviews are subject to availability.</p>
<p>Having said that, I don’t speak for admissions and like you, I’m just another anxious applicant whose guess is as good as yours. Hopefully though, if anything I’ve said above is wrong, Dan will point it out.</p>
<p>Just a little info–the Admissions office just finished entering everyone into the interview database this week. And RD interview reports are due on March 1.</p>
<p>By entering into the database do you just mean tallying who requested an interview?</p>
<p>In the database means that you have been assigned to a regional committee, and that committee chair has sufficient info to assign you an interviewer.</p>
<p>I was told that Tufts is already reading apps now. Would they read the apps of the candidates who haven’t had their interviews yet?</p>
<p>I would imagine that they’d be reading completed applications at this point. I’m guessing mostly ED2 applications, followed by those who’ve finished their interviews as well as those who didn’t request one in the first place (or those who don’t have interviewers in their region). There’s no reason why they’d be reading the other files prematurely.</p>
<p>Seashore,
My S had his Tufts interview today at the office of a very busy lawyer. The interview only lasted ~25 minutes but I reassured my S that it was because the lawyer was ideally supposed to be spending his time working and accumulating billable hours. 
However, he did manage to ask my S the dreaded, “Where else are you applying” question. Fortunately, I had discussed this with my son based on the responses posted by others in this thread, so it was not a particularly awkward moment for him.</p>
<p>Good for your son, momof3sons! When my own daughter was applying to colleges, I told her that no good ever came from telling interviewers where she was applying and that she should answer vaguely. That really backfired with one interviewer, who then kept guessing where she might prefer to go! </p>
<p>As for the 25-minutes, you are right that a lot of interviews run a lot longer. But you can get a lot of information across in 25 minutes. Once I interviewed a kid who had obviously skipped a school commitment. I cut the interview really short and sent her on to be with her classmates. She not only got in, she’s now a Tufts senior. </p>
<p>Here’s hoping that your son gets to laugh at both the short interview and the less-than-appropriate question!</p>
<p>Seashore, thanks for your response. I don’t think that my son was particularly concerned that the interview was short. (He’s had much longer ones so he has a frame of reference.) I think he’s a very strong candidate for Tufts and he and the interviewer seemed to have covered a number of topics. My son did answer the “dreaded” question and mention several other schools he was applying to. They are all of the type which might be considered to be small universities with an LAC type feel and with great research facilities/possibilities. Hopefully, his truthful answer (he can’t help himself ;)) won’t come back to haunt him!</p>
<p>Do they do Early Writes/Likely Letters?</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure they don’t. I remember someone asked this question before and Dan from Tufts admissions said that they didn’t.</p>