<p>I sent in my application for Yale on December 1st. A kid at my school sent his application in last week. He was already contacted yesterday to get an interview. However, I still have YET to be contacted. I know that not everyone gets them, but come on? Is this normal? We live only but a few miles at the most from each other and I applied almost a whole month before he did!! I am probably overreacting; it just still seems somewhat odd to me. Any comments about this happening to anyone or any advice on what to do (if I even can do anything...) would be great! Thanks guys! and good luck to everyone who applied!!</p>
<p>That’s quite strange. Maybe you’re one one side of a regional line and he’s on the other. But don’t worry, wait. I didn’t get contacted for my Harvard interview until more than a month after I submitted my application. If you aren’t contacted in perhaps 2 weeks, you might want to call the admissions office.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about it. Interviews go through February, so there’s still plenty of time.
Also, don’t worry about your friend getting an interview before you even though he submitted his app after you did. There may be many different interviewers in your region, and you may have a different interviewer who may want to conduct the interview at a later time. So yeah. No need to worry :)</p>
<p>Thanks for the support! I live in rather small town so that is what brought up more of the concern. Hopefully though I will be contacted sometime for an interview as I think it would benefit me quite well. However, I know people get in without them so I’ll try not to worry too much.</p>
<p>Is it bad though to call the admissions office and ask for an interview? does that not come off as bothersome at all?</p>
<p>Maybe your friend submitted a certain portion of his application before you did (e.g. supplement/common App) and so his file was opened earlier. Don’t call the admissions office to ask for an interview. It’s rather impolite as the official website clearly says that <em>you</em> will be contacted. Many people get in without interviews – I did (well, I was worried when I wasn’t getting one, but now I know that I was stressing for no reason :p). So don’t worry and enjoy your senior year :D</p>
<p>You live in a small town where there probably aren’t many interviewers, right? You live a few miles from each other.</p>
<p>1.) YOUR e-mail that asked you to interview went to spam and you never saw it (this happened by my D.
2.) The college sent YOUR app to one interviewer, who is someone who really isn’t in any hurry, and just hasn’t gotten to you yet. They sent the OTHER app to a 2nd interviewer, who likes to get things done.
3.) Applications might be selected on a COMPLETELY random basis (“Let’s just try to find an interviewer for every 7th application, OK?”?)
4.) YOUR application is being processed by someone in the admissions office who does things in a different order than the person who is handling your friend’s application. Interview first bs interview last.
5.) YOUR application is SO perfect, there is NO NEED for an interview.</p>
<p>I know, none of this really helps you. But…I tried. FYI, a Harvard Club rep said we SHOULD contact them if we hadn’t heard anything in 30 days. He said they get so busy crazy swamped at the end of January when all the last minute applicants come in, that he prefers to get things kept on track and clear up anyone who has already applied but didn’t get contacted. So I don’t think there is really any HARM in asking. ??? Good luck.</p>
<p>As a Yale interviewer, I think #1 and #2 above seem most likely. I doubt ASC directors do things totally randomly, I doubt very much that a small town is being handled by two different ASC directors, and I know that Yale does not indicate applicants who are so good or so bad that they don’t need to be interviewed.</p>
<p>I think that a lot of this has to do with your interviewer’s personal efficiency and style. My friend and I both applied to Harvard and Princeton on December 31 and January 1, respectively. I was offered a Princeton interview on Monday night while she was offered a Harvard interview today. I’m sure this is due entirely to how quickly the interviewers to whom we were assigned were willing to contact us.</p>
<p>Don’t sweat it - you’ll get your interview soon. If not, again, don’t sweat it. :)</p>
<p>This does happen often. There are eight kids I know applying to Brown. 4 of us got interviews, four didn’t.</p>