<p>I turned in my app Oct. 31st.. and I still haven't gotten word about an interview. On the otherhand, someone in my class who applied Oct. 28th got an interview 2 weeks ago... should I be freaking out? I live in Nashville, so there are plenty of alums in the city.</p>
<p>Has anyone else (applying Oct. 31st or later) not gotten an interview yet? and who should I contact to get one?</p>
<p>I submitted my app October 13th and haven't gotten an interview call. Is there something I should do or does that just mean there's no interviewer in my area - or that they don't even want to interview me?</p>
<p>T26, how do you know? I would think when making decisions they value whether students seem genuinely interested in Yale, because Yale is not just based on numbers, it's based on you as a person.. as far as I'm aware..</p>
<p>Maybe he's an adcom in disguise, other than that he would have no way of knowing how they evaluate your interest- they are merely guesses.</p>
<p>The link that wjb posted answers my question I think</p>
<p>I'm still in the dark, I too read the page where Yale checked off the ambiguous word "considered".</p>
<p>Just got an interview!!! Wooo!!!! So nervous!!</p>
<p>I 'm still waiting for an interview! And i'm still waiting for my eli #! Maybe something is wrong with my application to yale ...... Do i have to worry? They sent me an email 10 days ago telling me i'm gonna receive an eli #... I'm confused!</p>
<p>Having mine on Sunday... I'm so excited!</p>
<p>Interview next Tuesday...OY. :O But the guy seems nice, so I'm hoping for the best.</p>
<p>has anyone who lives in the OC (CALIFORNIA) area been contated yet?
im starting to get really nervous...until when do they have to contact me? if decisions are due in less than a month for early app, do i even have a chance of being contacted? :/</p>
<p>Mine was last Friday and I actually had my campus + alumni interview on the same day, so I drove up to CT then back down to NJ. My alumna interviewer actually lives three blocks away from me :) </p>
<p>We were both dressed very casually and interviewed at her house. The phone was ringing, the children were running around, her husband was cooking... but it wasn't really disturbing in any way. It was a very relaxed setting. She's a professional cellist and I'm a flutist so we talked a lot about music. At the end of her questions she told me that she really liked me and thought I would make a good Yalie. But she also went on for 5 minutes ( :O ) about how there was this other amazing girl she knew and how she didn't get in and so I shouldn't be disappointed if I don't get it because there are a lot of amazing places in the world besides Yale. I don't know what to make of this. </p>
<p>When we came to the subject of books I was talking about how I'm such a sucker for books like Pride and Prejudice. And so when I was about to leave, she told me to wait and she went upstairs. She came down with a 6-video set of PBS' pride and prejudice and told me I should watch it and I could return it whenever I was done with it :)</p>
<p>I have an on campus interview on Monday yay!!</p>
<p>Too bad it won't matter if they won't ever send me my Eli account information :(</p>
<p>I have my interview tomorrow (11/15)!! I'm kind of nervous.
It's at a Starbucks. What to wear... what to wear... xD</p>
<p>I had my interview yesterday, at the hospital where he worked. It went really well; we talked for about an hour. He asked some of the standard questions: Why Yale, and my ECs. Then I asked some questions about his college experience. He was a double major (Econ and Biology), so we talked a lot about work load and how its really not an issue.</p>
<p>He contacted me 10 days after I submitted the application. We met at a Starbucks (he insisted on meeting at a coffee shop that was convenient to me) on a Saturday afternoon. I got there about a minute early and I saw a guy who was just about to sit down so as I walked toward him he asked my name and then I got a drink.</p>
<p>It went well, I think mainly because he didn't spend most of his time asking me questions. At one point he said that he does interviews because he wants to share how much he likes Yale with other people, and I definitely saw that in how much he talked and the kinds of questions he asked. He was friendly and the whole time he made sure it felt casual.</p>
<p>My interview went well. We met at a Starbucks. I think we connected pretty well. He seemed really interested in how well-read I am (and especially that I've read Finnegans Wake). At one point, my interviewer mentioned a radio program he'd listened to, and I said "This American Life?" and he said "Yeah, I thought you would like that program!"</p>
<p>I also mentioned studying Samuel Morse when I talked about Academic Decathlon, and it turned out that he went to Morse College. Pretty freaky haha. I seriously didn't even think about Morse College when I said that.</p>
<p>I loved my interview!! xD</p>
<p>My interviewer was amazing! He was really amiable and all the worries (nightmares) i'd had about the yale interview dissipated as soon as i shook hands with him. he really seemed interested in everything i had to say and the atmosphere was never awkward/tense. well... i was kind of embarrassed when i spilled my chai latte on myself... - -;;</p>
<p>he shared a few personal anecdotes of his time at yale and i talked a lot about myself in general. even though he's an engineer and i'm aspiring to be an English major, we had a lot in common... at least in our opinions of harvard/MIT lol...</p>
<p>he told me that i was "great" and that he'd write a really good report for me. i was in an ebullient mood all the way home. and then when i got home i remembered that my stats aren't THAT amazing and that the interview isn't that big of a factor. </p>
<p>bummer ): </p>
<p>BUT still, i couldn't have asked for a better interviewer. i'll be happy... at least until the week of 12/15 when i'm a nail-chewing, hyperventilating mess.</p>
<p>how did the interviewers contact you?
by phone or e-mail?
and what if you miss/dont recieve the phone call? do interviewers try to contact you multiple times, or is it the once-and-for-all type of situation?</p>
<p>its been almost 20 days since I submitted an application and no sign of an interview...I live in a place where we have 4+ alumni, so I wonder what happened. is it because i submitted late (still before the deadline, of course) compared to other people? so therefore i dont get an interview? im getting really nervous...im for early action, and i hope there's still a chance of them contacting me, but i dont know...:/ </p>
<p>thanks guys :)</p>
<p>I live in a place where we got like a million alumni, and I havent recieved any word yet. I'm really nervous</p>