Harvard Divinity School (HDS), MTS program applications

[QWER___2]

Does anyone know approximately what time do HDS send out interview invitation on Fridays?

[user5049167012]

3 hours ago, QWER___2 said:

Does anyone know approximately what time do HDS send out interview invitation on Fridays?

was hoping to hear from them today but didn’t get anything 😕

[Ken05379707]

Received an invitation for interview@ next week, there are ample of slots to choose from mon-fri. 

Edited February 15 by Kensho05379707

[jmsquared]

9 minutes ago, Kensho05379707 said:

Received an invitation for interview@ next week, there are ample of slots to choose from mon-fri. 

Congratulations! 

[Ken05379707]

6 hours ago, QWER___2 said:

Does anyone know approximately what time do HDS send out interview invitation on Fridays?

in the late afternoon, usual working hours. 

[Ken05379707]

2 hours ago, user5049167012 said:

was hoping to hear from them today but didn’t get anything 😕

keep fingers crossed. 

[user5049167012]

lol another friday hoping to hear from them. Nothing so far!!

[lizlemon9]

didn't get an interview either...do you guys feel like this is the last possible day?

[user5049167012]

56 minutes ago, lizlemon9 said:

didn't get an interview either...do you guys feel like this is the last possible day?

My “while you wait” email said invites will be going out through march. Probably 28th is the last Friday, maybe the 7th 😕

Edited Friday at 10:52 PM by user5049167012

[Ken05379707]

On 2/14/2025 at 7:53 AM, D.S. said:

Not difficult, but might be the ones you've never expected to be asked. 

I got some unexpected questions too. But after the interview, I thought, probably I should have given another kind of response that may sound better?

[D.S.]

4 minutes ago, Kensho05379707 said:

I got some unexpected questions too. But after the interview, I thought, probably I should have given another kind of response that may sound better?

That's exactly what I felt too: you have to respond as best as you can in seconds. And yes, always feel like I should've answered in more detail and I probably missed something. 

[Ken05379707]

9 minutes ago, D.S. said:

That's exactly what I felt too: you have to respond as best as you can in seconds. And yes, always feel like I should've answered in more detail and I probably missed something. 

I should have trained more in this area. haha. The only thing we can do is to await for the final verdict in mid March. I hope that we can be classmates in coming fall. 

Edited yesterday at 12:14 AM by Kensho05379707

[D.S.]

3 minutes ago, Kensho05379707 said:

I should have trained more in this area. haha. The only thing we can do is to await for the final verdict in mid March. I hope that we can be classmates in coming fall. 

Yea but I think we did our best. It was difficult under that pressure and in such a short time. I hope we can join HDS this fall too. Let's hope for the best!

[user5049167012]

at least u got interviews hahaha hardest parts over

[maum2]

22 hours ago, Ken05379707 said:

I got some unexpected questions too. But after the interview, I thought, probably I should have given another kind of response that may sound better?

I felt the same way.. 

[Ken05379707]

1 hour ago, maum2 said:

I felt the same way.. 

Did you get these questions at the end? or they are stuffed in the middle of the core questions? 

[maum2]

1 minute ago, Ken05379707 said:

Did you get these questions at the end? or they are stuffed in the middle of the core questions? 

In my case, after some core questions, I got these questions. I was wondering, the interview work is our final round and how many people do not accept from HDS even with the interview work? 

[Ken05379707]

1 hour ago, maum2 said:

In my case, after some core questions, I got these questions. I was wondering, the interview work is our final round and how many people do not accept from HDS even with the interview work? 

Yeah me too. From previous year's gradforum on HDS, there are people who dont make it through to get the final offer after the interview.  Based on the pool of people being interviewed, we can estimate that they have a larger pool of shortlisted applicants than the ones admitted in the end, and probably there some talents who got multiple offers and in the end do not accept HDS's offer as well. I do hope they have kinda reserve list applicants to fill up these slots though. 

[D.S.]

40 minutes ago, Ken05379707 said:

Yeah me too. From previous year's gradforum on HDS, there are people who dont make it through to get the final offer after the interview.  Based on the pool of people being interviewed, we can estimate that they have a larger pool of shortlisted applicants than the ones admitted in the end, and probably there some talents who got multiple offers and in the end do not accept HDS's offer as well. I do hope they have kinda reserve list applicants to fill up these slots though. 

I know that many people were rejected after the interview because they didn’t really know how to answer some of the unexpected questions. But I’m not sure whether the decision is made right after the interview or if all interview results are gathered together to make the final review.

[Ken05379707]

18 minutes ago, D.S. said:

I know that many people were rejected after the interview because they didn’t really know how to answer some of the unexpected questions. But I’m not sure whether the decision is made right after the interview or if all interview results are gathered together to make the final review.

The outlier questions can have many subjective responses. Not sure if they are expecting some responses that are not far from their expected standard though.