Harvard Interview

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I heard a rumor that it was a bad sign if you weren’t offered a Harvard interview. Anyone else heard this?

They may have been referring to Harvard Business School's MBA program or to Harvard Law School admissions.

Neither does interviews. But the undergrad interviews mean nothing

Hey all, to those that continue to say that undergrad interviews mean nothing...I strongly encourage you just decline the invitation to interview when your kid is invited to do so from a Top 10 school alum.

Let us know how it goes with acceptances.

You sound like a moron. Nobody is saying to decline--it is good practice for the kids. We are just saying that schools do these interviews mainly for alumni engagement purposes and not to sweat over the interview. A lot of alumni have quit doing them because we realize it means nothing to the admissions office, and none of the kids we interview ever get in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard a rumor that it was a bad sign if you weren’t offered a Harvard interview. Anyone else heard this?

They may have been referring to Harvard Business School's MBA program or to Harvard Law School admissions.

Neither does interviews. But the undergrad interviews mean nothing

Hey all, to those that continue to say that undergrad interviews mean nothing...I strongly encourage you just decline the invitation to interview when your kid is invited to do so from a Top 10 school alum.

Let us know how it goes with acceptances.

You sound like a moron. Nobody is saying to decline--it is good practice for the kids. We are just saying that schools do these interviews mainly for alumni engagement purposes and not to sweat over the interview. A lot of alumni have quit doing them because we realize it means nothing to the admissions office, and none of the kids we interview ever get in.

Hmmm...sounds like the interview means...something. Don't use a complete bulls**t argument that a kid should do it because it's good practice. Good practice for what? Go interview for a bunch of real jobs and that is good practice. If they mean nothing, then don't do it...they mean nothing, don't they?

[Anonymous]

Hi, I am an alumni interviewer and I didn't read this whole thread but the alumni interviews are run by local Harvard clubs and some clubs have a large ratio of applicants to alumni interviewer. The Harvard Club of DC, which runs all the interviews in the DC metro area, was sending out emails to members and local alumni asking for more interviewers earlier this year.

There's also a lot of issues (more than you would think!) with interviewers getting assigned an interviewee whose family they know in any capacity (or something like that) which means they have to reassign the person for potential conflict of interest. It's actually happened to me multiple times before--DC is not that "big" and many of us work in a small handful of industries.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's not true.

Has everything to do with availability of interviewers.

The people organizing the regional interviews have zero intel on your application. None at all. Don't give it one more second of thought.

This poster didn’t read the old Harvard admission guidelines released in the lawsuit.

In the Harvard case the alumni interviewers gave the same rating to Asian American students as they did to white students. It’s in Wikipedia

I was referring to the prioritization process:

“ INTERVIEW PROFILE (IVP):
Below is the language for uniform implementation of the Interview Profile number (IVP) for use with all Schools and Scholarship Chairs. The IVP will serve as a guide for chairs to know when our office needs the reports, and therefore how quickly they need to be assigned. All interviewers will be told that they should submit their interview report no later than two weeks after receiving the interview assignment.
1. An applicant for whom the committee needs more information to reach a decision - please have interview report in as soon as possible.
2. An applicant for whom more information would be very helpful during our deliberations - please have interview report in by the sub-committee deadline.
3. Please have interview report in by December 1 (EA) or March 1 (RA).
4. Based on the materials currently available, the committee needs no additional
information at this time.

This language has been distributed to the S&S chairs via email and can also be found in the updated handbook and website instructions. (Please ask xx if you need help accessing the site). Please have a conversation with your chairs to determine if you wish to use the IVP, and please make clear that this information should not be shared with other interviewers or applicants. ”

[Anonymous]

I was referring to the prioritization process:

“ INTERVIEW PROFILE (IVP):
Below is the language for uniform implementation of the Interview Profile number (IVP) for use with all Schools and Scholarship Chairs. The IVP will serve as a guide for chairs to know when our office needs the reports, and therefore how quickly they need to be assigned. All interviewers will be told that they should submit their interview report no later than two weeks after receiving the interview assignment.
1. An applicant for whom the committee needs more information to reach a decision - please have interview report in as soon as possible.
2. An applicant for whom more information would be very helpful during our deliberations - please have interview report in by the sub-committee deadline.
3. Please have interview report in by December 1 (EA) or March 1 (RA).
4. Based on the materials currently available, the committee needs no additional
information at this time.

This language has been distributed to the S&S chairs via email and can also be found in the updated handbook and website instructions. (Please ask xx if you need help accessing the site). Please have a conversation with your chairs to determine if you wish to use the IVP, and please make clear that this information should not be shared with other interviewers or applicants. ”
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WHOA- if this is true Harvard has a very different process than Duke. AT Duke, where I am an alum and I interview,I got the sense they didn't use the Alum interview at all. We wer noyt told the priority or anything else about why they needed it by a certain date.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I was referring to the prioritization process:

“ INTERVIEW PROFILE (IVP):
Below is the language for uniform implementation of the Interview Profile number (IVP) for use with all Schools and Scholarship Chairs. The IVP will serve as a guide for chairs to know when our office needs the reports, and therefore how quickly they need to be assigned. All interviewers will be told that they should submit their interview report no later than two weeks after receiving the interview assignment.
1. An applicant for whom the committee needs more information to reach a decision - please have interview report in as soon as possible.
2. An applicant for whom more information would be very helpful during our deliberations - please have interview report in by the sub-committee deadline.
3. Please have interview report in by December 1 (EA) or March 1 (RA).
4. Based on the materials currently available, the committee needs no additional
information at this time.

This language has been distributed to the S&S chairs via email and can also be found in the updated handbook and website instructions. (Please ask xx if you need help accessing the site). Please have a conversation with your chairs to determine if you wish to use the IVP, and please make clear that this information should not be shared with other interviewers or applicants. ”
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WHOA- if this is true Harvard has a very different process than Duke. AT Duke, where I am an alum and I interview,I got the sense they didn't use the Alum interview at all. We wer noyt told the priority or anything else about why they needed it by a certain date.

Read this part carefully - “please make clear that this information should not be shared with other interviewers.” I think only the interview coordinators not - not the average interviewer.

[Anonymous]

*coordinators know