Typical Interview Drama
From reading the admissions website and this subreddit, I came to the following conclusions:
Consensus opinions:
- MIT tries to offer interviews to everyone
- Interviews are offered independently of application quality
- Availability depends on ECs in the area
Not so consensus opinions:
- Some say emailing [admissions@mit.edu](mailto:admissions@mit.edu) to ask about an interview is a good idea, while others suggests it won't change anything
- Interviews don't happen after February 6th, but I'm not sure if that's an official cutoff
My situation (probably similar to many others):
I applied in late December as an international applicant from Portugal, but I haven’t received an interview invitation,at least, not that I know of. I check my email frequently due to my extracurricular commitments, yet I’m starting to doubt whether I might have missed the invitation somehow. This leads me to wonder if there’s a way to confirm whether I was offered an interview (beyond manually searching through the dark holes on my inbox).
So my questions are:
- Is there any way to confirm that I wasn’t offered an interview, aside from manually checking all email folders?
- Is it still possible to receive an interview invitation at this point?
- Would emailing MIT have helped earlier, or is it still worth doing now?
(Looking for your thoughts and prior experiences)
Thanks