Yeah, I made it well before the early notification deadline, so it should be December 20th. In the interview, with a professor at the Bologna center, he said he would give me a strong recommendation for admission. Hopefully the interviewer has a lot of weight, but we'll see.
Congrats to you both, I got deferred to the regular pool of applicants. Shouldn't be surprised because I don't have the best foreign language background. But, I'm hopeful for SAIS next week, I think my interview went really well!