#Harvard University (2025-2026)
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Wondering what you guys' interviews said at the end of the interview
Cause my interviewer seemed a little bit lukewarm on me

oh no š
did she seem uncomfortable
like no not really it was a good conversation
she might just not be very forthcoming but when the interview ended it felt like she might not give a good rec ngl
maybe i was too boring
awww im sorry to hear that
u prob did fine
dont stress
i might just be too anxious but idkkk
u prob are
just gotta pray she doesnt tell anyone that shell write a good rec even if she will
help šš itās okay Iām sure she wonāt write āthis kid bashed the private sectorā in the report
ur over analyzing it i think
Lol this seems like a perfectly nice email I really donāt see any undertones
okay it's just that i would like to go to this silly red school and maybe i just cant read her 
I assume the first line is getting to you but itās standard etiquette for interviewers to not act like you have a guarantee bc even if they loved you you can still get rejected
yeah true im just tripping over the fact that some other friends interviewers were like ill write a good rec and she never said anything along those lines
true this would be a little tragic if they said they would help you out or something
She said she wants to hear about how things turn out for you so unless sheās excitedly waiting in hopes she can laugh at you that sounds like a positive
She has no obligation to say that
Lowkenuinely if I was the alum and I didnāt like you Iād just leave that out and let you remember on your own if you really cared that much
you are so reasonable 
I wonder if I can convince my dad to become alumni interviewer now that heās retired
Iāve never brought it up w him
But despite claiming he doesnāt like Harvardās politics he doesnāt seem to immediately toss the alum magazine they send us every couple months
Heād probably half out me as a2cer bc he doesnāt understand what this is called he just calls it āthe redditā
you definitely should it seems so cool to do it
i want to do it
im trying to convince my mom to interview for stanny
interviewers also have their own personalities
and everything along those lines
some r more open than others
Admissions tells interviewers if they get in, if you get in ur admissions officer and interviewer will prob email you too
oh i lowkenuinely had no idea
anyway yeah im feeling a little bit better about the interview now
i didnt talk about my resume at all and i just really focused on personal motivations and stuff so even if she doesnt write a good rec itll at least be objectively new information for AOs
Huge news
I told my dad and he said heād have to be a member of a Harvard club (aka local alum group) to join
So tldr you have to pay an annual membership fee to have the privilege to interview
I was completely unaware of that
Like ik alum orgs exist and charge but I thought theyād let volunteers off the hook bc free labor
woah
what the hell š
im crine this is diabolica
paying to interview after u gave ur alma 400k š
theres no way they make you pay to do labor for them
love how there is only one group for colorado š
its giving summer program at NYU
but 4 for alabama
i think it depends on area
the concept of having an entire club for MILTON ma is KILLING me
Both the areas my dad could be a part of based on when he moves mention a club fee but Iām unsure if interviewers are required to pay it
do u think its a harvard club fee
or a people club fee
like r the club leaders collecting it
ah very cool so i gather that not a single harvard alum lives in my city
this is real helpful
they literally lump tgth all the low income cities
and then the rich towns get their own
My state combines it into the harvard yale princeton club
its probably less on like
that
and more on just the nature of attendance
of ppl who went
cus alumni span a lot of generations
i feel colleges were more money focused 30-40 even 50 yrs ago
@spring crypt do you happen to know the answer as to whether or not Harvard alumni are required to join and pay membership fees to become alum interviewers
This is what I have rn
So they at least have to contact the club but dunno if that leads into them paying
What the hell
i just googled it
yall got ur own club name too š
THEY DO WEDDINGS AND EVENTS??
AND THEY HAVE THEIR OWN HOUSE??
I donāt think alum board members are usually paid so it probably funnels back into club operation fees
Lmfao sounds about right
Tbf extravagance isnāt that uncommon
Davis offers alums multi thousand dollars trips if they have membership but they gotta pay those multi thousands on top of their annual dues if they go
R we deadass
typical Davis behavior
of course they had PET membership
hope they also have cow membership
Omg there's one in my area no way
Thereās no fee
The local clubs (eg harvard club of New York) are separate from the interviewing clubs, which are open to all alumni to join
The interviewing clubs are just how they refer to the geographic organization of alumni interviewers
she told me tho she needs to reach out to admissions or like
whoever because of the terminology i used
oh waht
i had to define queer w/o using the word queer
why did you do this
because she asked me to
she is not allowed to put that word in a report
its banned
DEADASS
im in shock what the hell?
oh because they think its pejorative but you're using it as a specific identity
no like it has to deal with the supreme court ruling
its js precautionsā
can they say homosexxual
nope
this is so very silly
nothing that explicitly says ur identity
and because im applying to gender studies
and sexuality and womens studies
im passionate and everything i want to do is applying gender studies to different stuff
i talked a lot about it
but i was like
and to preface she has children who are gay she is super super supportive
i basically defined queer as an umbrella term w past negative roots but being a way of self expression in which you can love whoever, express urself however, and be authentic whenever
it was v hard
but i think it went well considering we talked for 2 hrs
I still havenāt sent my LOCI in when do you guys think the latest I can sent it
iām trying to get it in these next few days but iāve got a lot of work for some reason
prioritize the loci
also for anyone w/ interviews i got these questions:
- tell me abt urself
- tell me abt what it was like growing up in ur family
- why harvard
- why major
- if u could change any outcome of an event in ur life what would it be and why
and that was all she asked! we spent a lot of time talking about a bunch of stuff but she only asked five questions. i didnt do much prep and i was super vulnerable and i think i walked away proud of what i did instead of if i over prepped and became too robotic
i got those (besides changing outcomes), but also:
what's a challenge you faced
what sort of communities are you looking for in college
what sort of college experience do you want
name an event or time that changed your mind or the way you thought about something
what sort of career do you want
what do you do outside of school?
what achievement (academic or otherwise) are you most proud of
anything i missed?
we focused a LOT on what i wanted from college which really tripped me up
i think it just goes to show how it depends on ur interviewer
yeah mine kinda grilled me
Mine didnāt ask any questions besides tell me ab urself
ngl i dont have an answer to the last one
all of the events of my life have impacted who i am, i wouldnt be the same person without any of the bad stuff
what the heck
thats what i told her
yo i also applied wgs
being queer was so important to me too
and being thta it helped influence my major
i couldnt not talk about it
so she was like
I deadass mentioned being trans in my interview
i used queer and stuff throughout my interview until about an hour in
and she was like hey fyi i want to do this now and let u know
i cannot put this word in ur report at all
so she needed me to describe what queer meant without any identifiers that could give the direct link to me saying im gay
but i want to preface she was super understanding and she talked about her experience as a mom with two children also going through ts
āpart of a diverse community of different identitiesā
i couldnt use diversity
Thats diabolical
if ur intāl
ur already lacking in alumni #
nothing is a sign of anything is how u should approach everything
absurd
but anyways
i think the interview went well
it was my first one so a little stressful
but i enjoyed it
i have a yale one on thursday so this was just prep for that ig
harvard assigns so late
ur fine
just be patient
also remember ur intāl and a lot of what ur seeing online comes from domestic students
and of course thats such a skew in what u think ur seeing
to preface i live 2 hours away from where my interviewer does
so i rlly think its just about whos in ur area
and as an intāl its even harder
but dont lose hope
ppl get in w/o interviews
all the time
try and get that done soon
thats good
u got this
yea i jsut had my interview a couple hours ago and i think it REALLY depends on the interviewer. the only real questions my interviewer asked were:
- tell me about ur background (like how the conditions u grew up in shaped your interests) and some end goals for career
- what are some experiences youve had relating to ur major
- what are some things you do/do not want to take away from your college experience
we were able to keep the convo flowing well by talking about modern issues in teh world relating to my major (like ai and political policy, which was good bc theyre a diplomat)
one thing i asked them (and i recommend everyone asking this) is: what specific experience/encounter did u have that changed the way you viewed a topic unrelated to ur major?
i think our interview lasted like 70-80 mins iirc. overall cool experience to talk to a person with a background that im very unfamiliar with
Interviewers have a lot of agency over what they choose to ask, there are basically no hard rules
ya
when will they ask for interview. or is it too lateš
Interviews usually go pretty late, for rea it was like december 1st. Honestly the later you get an interview, it means the numebr of alumni was scarce so the interview can actually be a good sign if u get one depending on how many ppl apply in ur area
ik a few ppl applied in my area but only two of us got an interview and we both got in
thanks
Yo my interviewer just called me again this morning like 10 mins ago, I was asleep tho
What do I do?
Actually wait I wasnāt even alseep, my phone was in my hand but I didnāt even feel the call
Yall think it was just a butt dial?
i dont think itd be rude to call him back
Hi guys, I have a question. I applied REA to harvard with 2 other kids in my school. 1 got in and me and another kid got deferred. The other kid who got deferred got an interview in november while I didnāt get one. Now with the rd pool, i know a kid who just got a harvard interview at my school? What does this mean for me??
can anyone take a look at my LOCI?
my harvard interview is in a few hours
ššš
do they ask a lot about why harvard⦠or more about yourself
it really depends on interviewer
mine asked a lot about myself
like why major and what do you want out of college
good luck, you got it
thanks going to meet them now š„¹
I didnt get asked why harvard i got asked āwhy collegeā
yeah i got this too
i got what is your connection to harvard
and what do you want out of college
but not why harvard
probably because itās obvious
i have it in 12 hours
can someone take a look at my loci?
im rd applicant but if you want just dm
Can someone lie to me and tell me that a interview means something good
honestly if thats how the questions go imma try to slide in a why harvard LOL
an interview means something good
My dad lore dropped to me abt his Harvard interview
This was in the early 80s
He said he had two
For the first one a staff member at his school pulled him and another kid out of class into a conference room where a Harvard alum was waiting (believe they interviewed separately tho)
Neither of them knew they were getting interviewed until it happened
The alum was a bit of a hardass like when my dad brought up how coworkers at the maintenance place he worked at had āpersonal issuesā (coming to work drunk) interviewer asked my dad how heād fix that
Alum also asked my dad abt newtonās three laws since he found out my dad was taking physics but since my dad forgot the third he just bullshitted and said āwe havenāt gone over the third yetā
The second interview was on Harvardās campus with an AO but my dad requested that one
He said that was an easy one and it sounded more like current day alum interviews
this is insane š
Iām unsure if the first interview was a normal thing
YIPPPEEE
My dad was on a full tuition baseball scholarship to attend an expensive country day school
So thereās a chance they got special treatment there
apparently my moms harvard interview went kinda similar but she got into stanford rea so she just told her interviewer that she hated harvard and that she thought it was sexist
š
LMAO
Harvard was my dadās EA (they didnāt do REA yet)
He applied to Cornell too
He briefly mentioned the interview but didnāt seem to like it
yeah harvard does this for some publics in the area around it
Bro that one's going into my nightmare catalogue
Others have nightmares of freezing during public speaking or whatever
I'm gonna have nightmares of having a sudden harvard interview with a serious ass interviewer
It's a good indicator that you got an interview š
@vast vigil do yk when CSS profile is due for harvard
Like may 1st
ok coool
Fucking hate that thing shit takes seven years
FAFSA is so light nowadays
hi guys i had my interview just now and my person was pretty strict on the timing like he pretty much ended it around 45 min as suggested is that a bad sign
nah he may have like other obligations or perhaps another interviewee coming. it should be fine lol
alright looking back i feel like i could have talked more bc he kept asking was there anything else u wanna share but i kinda just didnt cause in the moment i didnt feel comfortable to and i kind of regret it now ughhh
Nope. My Georgetown interviewer ended it 45 minutes on the dot because we both had tight schedules and I got in. Stanford interviewer did the same on Tuesday
youāll be fine it already happened
canāt change it now. iām sure you did great! and the interview is such a small portion of the app
thank youu
Can anyone look at my essay?
if i got deferred and I want to submit an additional rec should I submit it thru commonapp or should I give the link from the portal to my recommender
portal link
it says use the link āoutside of the allotted recommendations through the Common Applicationā but I still have space for an additional rec in commonapp. but idk if ur supposed to continue using commonapp at this stage
i did
Is it normal for questbridge students to continue with there rd even after they matched?
no..
if they match that should be binding ed
One of my friends matched to a uni and she got a Harvard interview coming up
Thats what I thought
unless they had to back out bc of financials but i dont see how thats possible considering financials r covered
SHE said she applied to 5 rd but I thought it was binding meaning withdraw from other unis
unless it was some other extenuating factor
it doesnt seem like u can get out unless some other extenuating factor appears
She committed tk the uni she even made a post abt it so I was like wait what's going on
if she matched with mit then she can
mit is the only non binding one
wait there are more
pton qb is non binding
neither is stanford (?)
HELLO??
Woah I didnt know that
Yeah she matched with mit
Thats interesting why are they non binding
im not sure
im assuming bc they dont need the yield confirmed and also bc they wouldve given u the money anyway
well mit pton and stanford all do ea/rea so makes sense that qb is also ea
oh this makes sense
cus all qb is really is just ed for the school
so ed would be rea
or ea
Ah ok
So would yale be the same too?
Since they're rea
probably but who knows
you can ask @honest solar he might know
most locked in qb warrior on this server
Princeton and Stanford are now binding
A few years ago they weren't but they've since switched
Yale is also binding for QB
All schools are except for MIT
Oh Harvard what could have been
Ty!!
anyone from charlotte gotten an interview yet?
No :(
was just gonna ask the same thing, nope
LOLL I think we're all good! As long as we submitted our application, they'll get to us soon enough š I totally get feeling worried though š
yessss
should i write a loci if i have basically nothing to update
i know different schools have different opinions on locis im not sure what stance harvard has on it
i would try to make something to update, even if minor
could be improved gpa/first semester grades, a new hooby you picked up, maybe a competiton you entered, etc
ah okay fsfs
Is one A- in mid year report for RD cooked?
no
my situation as well but no
some colleges donāt even care
Most colleges dont care lmfao
A lot of schools dont even distinguish A and A-
that must be rough for the people who get an 89 if itās just letters
One A- wouldnāt cook your transcript initially
It wonāt really matter for midyeae
*midyeae
Itās just for one marking period of my senior year
it doesnt matter
some of my teachers dont do + - while others do hard cut offs at their own perspective
it wouldnt be very fair if they cared abt that
Would Harvard match my Princeton REA financial aid offer if it is about 30k/year better
Has anyone done something similiar
How do you know harvard will be worse than princeton?
How would there be such a huge difference
Calculator, and Princetonās aid is more generous since they have a bigger endowment per person
But I like Harvard a bit more
Also a bit of luck but thanks (:
How were your guys interviews
It should if you're low income
Ivies give a lot of aid but idk if its as much as pton
had good interview lowkey super personal conversation but i connected with him over family
insane pull
is it normal for ao's to email applicants requesting additional information?
my friend received an email from a senior ao requesting a full research paper after he submitted an abstract; I submitted an abstract as well and did not receive any request
no
this is a good sign
at the very least faculty wants to know more
it means that the faculty wants to review the full paper and their feedback is passed onto the admissions committee
elmo thumbnail
late feb/early march is kinda too late i feel
they cant really hold it againt you tho.. so just email them and send them some sort of proof you have that will be public later
that case they know already and dont need to check
what has occurred lil bro
bro picked the latest of late dates
ya ig then it should be fine.. but since you already know there really isnt any disadvantage telling them now, and showing your proof ig
bruvv.. i still havent gotten an interview so youre better off
ya ya im not stressin just smt i noticed lol
check ur portal to see if u were assigned ainterviewer
nothing there for me.. but im intl as well and nobody i know who applied from area got one so we will see
Guys I just cooked myself I think around the 30 minute mark my interviewer had to go but didn't want to interrupt me so she waited until the end of my yapping and tried to interject but I didn't pick up and continued to fire questions at her for like 7 minutes until I finally realized and was like "oh sorry wait go ahead" and turns out she had another interview š I have negative social awareness
She was talking super fast too so I should've realized š
why did the interviewer schedule 2 interviews so close together bro
sorry that happened lol
prob bc theyre limited on time since theyre just volunteers
Guys is there a chance that they accept who got deffered?
Because I heard that's a implicit rejection
they would have rejected you if they wanted to reject you
bruh why would they defer you if they always intend to reject you
they'd just reject you
they dgaf
bouta do my harvard interview while im sick š„
congrats on mod in training!!
good luckk š
Do yall send thank yous to your interviewer the same night (3-4 hours later) or the next day?
I did same night
thanks for reminding me
Ngl ive never done this for an interview
Was i supposed to be doing this
Iāve heard interviewers that say they like it - just shows character idk probably doesnāt change anything
for college itās recommended afaik
guys do u know when the last interview are sent out?
3-4 hours is plenty
I generally did it 1 hour after
You have to remember most are doing like 20-30 kids and they usually write their report right after when shit is fresh
anyone from charlotte get an interview?
no but i read that as chipotle and i had chipotle
but like anyways i think harvard does interviews until like march
are u in clt?
cus im not from charlotte
i just want another interview from someone. idgaf who. idgaf when
Lmao Litteraly
u get multiple interviews?
me too 
yeah my email mentioned interview reports were due early march
guys did harvard send off interviews
i had mine in january
but you might still be able to receive one in the next week or so
i had mine last sunday
How come nobody commented on the thread thumbnail
dont know what that means
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why would u post that creature.
no trigger warning too.
My 2nd birthday was Elmo themed
There was a guy who did red light green light with an Elmo puppet at the party and I ran up and grabbed the puppet
how does it look on the portal if u get an interview?
thereās a space where it will say your interviewer
here a scuffed landscape view on mobile
They changed ts
It did not show my interviewer on there i had to wait for an email from him
LOL i tweaked out because she lowkey took like 5 days to email me
it took me 4 months lol
i donāt even have this section
umm yall when am i supposed to write a loci
is next week too late
ik its alr kinda late : /
Me too
now
no
do it then
your options are do it rn or do it later and have it be later š
Anybody got ao interview
ooh
me neither twin itās ok
is it too late to submit academic work
i just did do u think theyāll still review it?
yes, if you have made it into committee then they will review it
i think they do committee next week
but the person to ask would be BG
i think that this is still the time to submit stuff and your AO will definitely notice (assuming you're in committee š )
GOOD LUC
i had mine like
january 13 or something
if you want to hear about the qs i got id love to share
those that i remember
yeah it was the 18 i checked and i got the request like the week b4
its because although my school is public we kinda have an arrangement w harvard
since we're close and theres hella alumni
so like 10000% availability
ok i got:
tell me abt yourself
what is your connection to harvard (this is why harvard)
why major/future plans
what's a time you changed your thinking about something
facing challenges
what type of community do you want to find at harvard (slash college in general)?
i think standard interview length is 35 mins but mine went over bcs she had time
she was REALLY big on asking me like what kind of community i wanted to find at harvard which really tripped me up to be honest
and she also wanted to hear a lot about my future plans and why
she did not really gaf about why harvard
like "why harvard" is obviously really easy
let me think of any other qs i got
she was also big on the liberal arts
and i think i didnt express enough openness to trying new subjects or whatever, i think i appeared pretty focused on my major
also she did a "anything else you want to say"
OH and she asked about my school environment
how does dude still remember
my memory is really good
it kinda carried me all throughout hs
photosynthesis memory
i got these questions:
- tell me abt urself
- do u think if u grew up in the city compared to the rural area ur from uād be different today (targeted i think since im rural)
- tell me abt what it was like growing up in ur family
- why harvard
- why major
- if u could change any outcome of an event in ur life what would it be and why
if that helps as well
yeah.. mine was like a little long
Because abba and ivy league interviewers are literally best friends automatically
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my princeton interviewer told me we could be friends also
and that i can text him whenever i need life advice
harvard, yale, pton literally HYPSM bound girl
this is the true 1 on personality
like da
we all gonna be crimsom bound
crison
if i were a harvard ao
cri, son is what i will be doing
omg Habbachisqfeathervard
she def was a family centered person
i genuinely dont know
dont know how yale went for almost 3 hrs
like these people work too???
am i not disrupting their work??
abba u are not real twin
idk i felt real
i like pizza and so did she
and i like farmerās markets and so did she
thats real shit
lowkey my harvard interview felt so evaluative
thats the one thing ive felt like all of mine havent been
yes heavy on these 2
and i think i would have hit it off with my stanny interviewer but she was literally a quant and had to run from her lunch break
surrounded by sweats
i think yale especially has become super focused on like
wanting u to really get excited for yale
i can just remember the ladys eyes boring into me as she took notes but i would rather have an evaluative interviewer than a lazy one because i think i do comparatively well on interviews
yeah harvard was NOT that
but also encouraging u to pick yale
you dont get "excited" for harvard
omg me when i stopped dead in my tracks and went āwait this is a dealbreaker. do u guys also have a farmerās market thats lowk good.ā
i love my farmerās market at home
and im gonna cry
i cant leave it š
i have so many friends w the vendors
lowk chill
esp if its a senior
āIāll withdraw ur appā
no
i also wrote about calico critters a lot of the time
icl i recycled every harvard one from columbia š
they do not gaf
i spent the most amount of time working w jeni, youtiao, and whixler
on columbia
that i just used all of thsoe for harvard
i fuck w a2c heavy
i was getting so many essay reviews not costing me $200 oop
yeah same i had jeni and whixler roast my columbia supplementals to the groudn and then i had my mom do it and then i copied
for harvard
oh ur brave
id never let my parents see my essays
my mom is an english teacher
thatās elite
leads to a good ebrw sat score but an unfortunately cooked math score
i lit had uni read them like
2 hrs before submitting
he caught one of the biggest red flags i was abt to submit š
it was lowk nice bc once i had like someone review every ātypeā ig
when it was recycling the ideas + concepts were fine
like once i got that ādragā framework i showed u feather it was ez to use for other schools
brown 3 word was so cute
i put like
ambient lighting enthusiast
my ass was like
i was so stuck on those like
basic descriptors that i was like
well i feel stupid putting these
y do so many ppl use enthusiast
idk
i felt like it showed what i was passionate abt but not like in a way that screamed
im saying im passionate
maybe
its kinda like usc
I had it in one of my drafts for Stanford but then I deleted it
cus usc doesnt rlly use ur short takes that deep
when is the interview deadline?
like march
reddit is saying march 10th but i know in the past it was march 1st
just relax cus there r still 2 weeks of feb
did anyone submit test scores on the common app still have this? on the portal
worried that they didnt get my score from the common app (as some other schools, i.e. northeaster n& rice didnt get my score even tho i wrote it on the common)
everyoen has this
Wondering the same
Did any internationals receive an interview from Harvard ?
chat am i omega cooked if i got an interview lowkirkepsteinuinely 3 days ago
harvard def does prescreen
idk if its changed but
in 2023 when the admissions files came out
w/ the lawsuit
aos basically assigned applicants 1-4 for an interview and if u received a 1 that means u needed an interview asap and 4 is dont need one type scale
I could kinda tell bc stanford and princeton ppl from my school we all got interviews at the same time and some shared interviewers. But for Harvard it was scattered with many ppl not getting interviews at all
so i dont think its based on availability
one person in my school got AO interview too
is this based on need more info type, or just like this guy is good type
info
anyone know how late they send out interviews š„
yeah I get wym like the scale they have
I did rea tho and didnt get an interview I'm expecting a rejection
prolly last week of feb
oh wut i thought harvard specifically didnt prescreen
i didnt think so bc i literally got an email from my interviewer on january 15th
wait r u guys talking about ao interviews
nvm then š
they do
even for alumni interviews?
damn
ig i was just lucky enough to get my application reviewed early
but lowk my interview was kinda weird
like im pretty sure my answers were fine but he did spend a significant amount of time downplaying harvard
i got my application reviewed early too doesnāt mean much
same here
theyāre just like that on purpose
oh and also calling bill gates a nepo baby LOL
he was da like "i hate bill gates"
he was in the same class so
this is like every ivy league student on here
Really
My Princeton and Stanford interviewers really loved their time
When I asked my Harvard interviewer how the resources helped him for his career shift (indicated by his 2 wildly different majors) he just said plainly āit didnātā
oh yeah but everyone on a2c shits on their ivy league school
LMFAO wait thatās what mine said but in coded language
she switched from art professor to tech
and was like yeah it basically didnt help
Loool thatās funny
if everyone enjoyed every single part of their school then everyone would b winning the lottery
I get that but iirc I couldnāt really get him to name one thing that he was kinda enthusiastic about at Harvard
This was an hour long phone call like a month ago tho so my memory may be foggy
i also made all my interviewers get pessimistic
i asked them whats something about ur experience at [school] that was bad and u wish u or the school could have changed
and what their biggest regrets were
š
yeah i asked all of mine what they would do differently
i asked about food š
What does it mean to get one?
Oh ok thanks
Has anyone had one and can lmk what type of questions they got?
Chisq did u get one or know someone who got one?
Ok thank you!!! If anyone has any specific questions theyād received Iād appreciate that
anyone get an ao interview?
i believe @uneven hare had one last year! she might remember or be willing to discuss her experience with u
she ended up getting waitlisted i think
Ok I sent a dm thank you
yes
yes
gotchu
did u get one
tough to say, but logically that would make sense
damn ao interview is cracked
not necessarily
itās certainly a sign that you are in committee but itās also a sign your application is controversial in committee and the AO needs more info in order to advocate for you
atp nothing is a sure sign because nobody has decisions
!bgastro
indeed! they have not done LLs yet
but i agree w feather
omg feather rochester sent me an email saying decisions r gonna be posted soon
im not ready for rd
omg is this your first one
good luckkk
i believe
yes outside of state schools
the one state school i applied to LMFAO
boulder?
you could have a mattress and get it stolen by your roommate š¤©š¤©
this aināt ever getting old
Is there an estimate on the percentage of admitted international students that had interviews?
Cause 2 ppl from my school got interviewed a while ago and theyāre super strong while many other equally strong students and I werenāt interviewed so Iām assuming Iām cooked (everyone got deferred from an Ivy ED or REA). Iām in a very alumni dense region btw
even if youāre in an alumni dense region thereās really not much for you to do about it other than wait, to be honest⦠like you donāt really know the availability situation for the interviewers and even if the committee picked the two āstrongestā candidates from your school i doubt that it would prevent them from considering you
like interviews really donāt matter that much at all
we look at them a lot because it seems to be āmerit basedā and an indicator of how you are doing in the process because of the slight prescreen but whatās truly merit-based is your acceptance
we have like 5 weeks just to enjoy your senior year haha
bruh if theyre gonna put almost everything in considered then they might as well split that category
i am applying RD
Yeah Iāve considered that as well. And considering the Ivy deferrals Iām sure almost all of us are passing the grade, testing, and even to some extent EC expectations and getting into committee but obv getting out of it at Harvard is brutal
they do it because they donāt want to be transparent and also in the holistic admissions process different things matter most for different people
Good luck! Have you gotten in anywhere
ic
Transparency and Harvard admissions do not go together icl
im gonna be real with u. cds is a way for colleges to throw their admissions info together to seem transparent. it basically is a way for colleges to claim to be transparent when they never are. never take the cds for its face value
i remember letter s girl got hers in march so id assume around then LMFAO
Idk abt Harvard but Iāve already seen Columbia and Yale LLs on Reddit
but she is an anomalyā¦
Neither š
columbia ll are not out
no way
columbia ll have historically always come out in march
Couldāve been fake
still waiting for harvard interviewš¬ oh my lord
Exactly
#likelyadmit
ye some1 from my school got it during a deca trip lmao
Iām not expecting much lol
yeah its usually like
this year we got a yale likely too and the guy is lowk studious
2-3 weeks before decisions
if i got an interview for yale. which also prescreens. what's stopping me from getting harvard.
I havenāt gotten Yale or duke interviews either but neither has anyone from my school
ur international
so also consider that
u gotta slime him out..
what if swara ex is on āprincetonā and finds me..
swara revenge arc
maybe i'm a THREE on their harvard interviewer rating thing or whatever
assignments due by march 1st....
or i like
im like
counts on my fingers
I was kinda just expecting to get them around early Feb but I think theyāre dying down now
georgetown
what did they say lowk
Congrats! SFS or?
cas/mccourt
Nice
apparently he is biblical levels of hot sooo
I applied to SFS Iād be pretty stoked if I got in but my interview was meh but I think cooked on the essays
i think my essays were the strongest yeah
yea, i was thinking id get it in like late january bc i ended up getting 4 interviews in like 12 days duringn that month
good fortune
my dl is going to a religious school unfortunately
oh NAH
Iāve had 3 interviews in total and theyāre only the ones that are availability based unfortunately
At least you have a dl š
i've had the one from yale..i'm waiting on my 2 other availability ones which are tufts and vassar
And like. harvard
LMFOAOAO
ugh
columbia ao whoever u are
u were so close to seeing some amazing media ā¤ļø
i should lore dump about him sometime
Yea Iāve had Georgetown, Princeton, Stanford
Ugh yea i need stanford too
ive had gtown, harvard, stanford
i don't think i'm getting stanford though bc no one from the city an hour away from me gets stanford
i think all mine r availability (stanford princeton mit harvard)
A Columbia rep came to my school and I hate how they said they werenāt even our regional AO
wai not harvard
The only ao i've ever met in person was like
One of the cornell humec aos. at a college fair. and i really wish i applied to humec bc she was so kind
i met a northwestern ao in person
we talked for like three hours abt his life
and everything he does
bro some upenn rep came to our school and everyone was like "yea no they dont matter theyre just alumni" and then the person that connected with them and stuff got in for ed LOL
AOs are just humans
They love to vibe
yea
i dont think anyone from my school got into their ed choice
Hey thatās gonna help if you applied to NW
i did
damn really
we had 2 cornell and that upenn i think
Hell no i live in the middle of nowhereš
My school had 2 ivies
And a bunch of deferrals
And some rejections
Our decision account just started posting stuff and everyone's going to sunys or cc LOL
oh ic, im in ny so its kinda competitive here
I also live in nyš
Im upstate though
Thatās awesome
I really hope I get into NW
Praying for you
their econ department is awesome
i mean our school isnt like hyper competitive but the smart ppl are very smart so
Did you do the rock essay
i didnt
i want to move there and chase green lights fr
i did background, chicago location, and community essay i think
I did the rock essay and the what project would you start essay
STOP
loool
I was thinking of doing the location essay but I couldnāt find anything good to say abt Evanston š
i talked about some coop program between nw and some national lab that was very close to evanston but not in chicago
i did the uh
ngl it was so hard to talk about the benefits of chicago without saying "i like nw bc its close to chicago" š
Yea I think the things that drew me towards NW were research opportunities and student culture
lol but even then Chicago can be cold and sad so thatās why I rly couldnāt do that prompt
I like how itās by the lake but like surely it canāt be warm enough most of the time
yea i lowk got catfished by all the campus pics
community + background
r the 2 i did
outside of the required one
so i did 3 supps total
i think my val and i both applied to cornell ed. i got deferred and he's been silent about it so i assume he also got cooked
i lowk only applied cus i have a friend there and she is doing archery and lowk a bitch gotta learn something niche and i feel like i could do that right
i could not do uchi tho
i feel like evanston is a good mix of city + suburban
our val got into penn ed and her boyfriend got into brown ed for rugby
them dating is like when the queen of spain marries some french duke in order to consolidate the kingdom or whatever
damn, our val+sal applied mit and both got deferred
AWFULš
Recruited for rugby is crazy i didn't even know you could do that
weve had 9 ivies though so theyāre not THAT special
its like a rugby club or sth
but heās really good
damnnn 9 ivies already
oml i thought you were amouru
for that
talkin bout some 9 ivies like its normal
us on our way to harvard
us on our way to YALE*
YABBAANYACHISQE
Sorry...in the harvard thread
2 cornell 3 harvard 1 penn brown dartmouth pton š
YABBAANYACHISQEā¤ļø
i hate my school do much
3 harvard is Crazee...ze medford feederā¤ļø
i go to a diff school district medford could NEVER
gotta get state taxes somehow
thereās 0 opportunities here
3 harvarddddddddd
(still public but)
two were nepo they donāt count
actually theres triplets in our grade that have like some crazy harvard legacy
Oh my god can i stop getting ivyleagueroadmap on my tl. What do you mean yale is kicking out the middle class. Do you hear yourself
yale after expanding the tuition guarantee:
i only like brandon
āmiddle classā and hes talking about kids making 300k who can pay for him but not for college
brandon's scaring me..he said that cornell deferred students are unlikely to get accepted in rd round and he didn't explain himself at all for it
300k talm bout not paying for college
noooo im sorry
cornell rejects most ED though i think
i think he said the same about columbia in another tiktok as well š
bruh istg im not even playing
i need brandonās gym routine
what i'm sayin..defer rate is like 20%
U KEEP SAYING THIS
like oh my god i need it
š
who is this brandon
@tineocollegeprep on tiktok
the goat
it sounded like a 1 but maybe a 2
but she never out right told me it was just what she was talking to me abt in the after procedures that most interviewers say
daamn
wait u got ur interviewer listed on ur portal in january or they emailed/contacted u in janueary
both
omg how was it
ah
i was NOT the best one interviewed
my interviewer did not vibe with me
but we ball fr
yea my interviewer asked me a lot about like my childhood and upbringing
mine too haha
he told me to tell me about myself at first so i just kinda started talking about my career through high school and he just kept saying "further back" until we got to when i was like 5 years old š
was kinda fun tho
damn both my harvard and my pton interviewer asked about my brother, and when i said he went to columbia they both said i have a lot to live up to
like word for word š
nah dw, that was prob the most positive moment of my interview
everyhing from there was just eh
bruhh this is crazy š
i got even more to live up to now that my brother got a crazy job š
wtffff
hating on a harvard daughter š
oh wait that reminds me
my pton interviewer's daughter and my brother were in the same high school class and were stand partners in orchestra
kinda crazy
harvard daughter or princeton son fr
Fr
am i supposed to be hoping to get a ao interview
no
itās so rare
and not necessarily indicative either
eg i got one and didnt get in
i got buried in work
also i still read everything there are just less people for me to tell them that theyāre wrong answer questions since everybody already applied
oh no i hope ur not too buried anymore
LOL its all good
do likely letters all come out at the same time/have they all come out already?
idts but dont think abt likely letters?
like i think theres so few
dont even think abt them
completely random but there was this scam ig account that i realized was following a ton of a2c-ers and i was wondering if any of yall also got a request from the account chen_writers8?
I canāt find that Instagram account by manual search
I think it got deleted now
whens ivy day
March 26th
yay..........
i dont think harvard does likelies
they do
does harvard give interviews?
yes
it is a slightly prescreened interview that is assigned primarily based on availability
so
basically
most people will get one
am i fried if i dont got one yet š
yeah if its not in the portal you dont have one
ah alr
its okay not every admitted applicant will get one
well it was a good run lol
i mean
i wrote those essays with a 102 fever i aint expecting much
dyk how the prescreening works?
not really
alr
@lost dawn knows a bit you can ask him
wait do i have to self report test score eve if i did on ca i js saw a option for it š
lowkey like the second time i am on ts portal
nah its ok
oh alr
if u report on ca should be ok
no dont double report
dw i did not
wait how does interview work for intl app that live in us? or is ts not a factor
when u apply r u considered international for tax purposes + citizenship purposes
yea i am interantional for citizenship
#HEARTBREAKING #GHOSTED
but tax is from us
whatever...i didn't even want to go to harvard ANYWAYS!
ok so yeah ur international since ur a non-citizen. harvard prescreens internationals a lot more than domestic
makes sense
