I agree with the poster below. It was the weekend after New Years Days + this year the probably have more applications to review, that would definitely NOT advance the deadline.

To the person who got admitted into PhD Psychology at Harvard, you just got an acceptance letter:? No interview? Also, could you share your POI initials? Thank you

Informal interview with faculty member -Epidemiology

To the user who posted about Harvard: A fellow RA in a lab at Harvard told me a few weeks ago that the PI in our lab doesn't do pre-interviews, or even formal interviews - they just offer admittance after reviewing applicants - seemed unlikely to me, but this person applied to the doc program before, and has been an RA in this lab for a while, so it seems they would be privy.

From what I can tell from previous years, Harvard sends invites mid january

Has anyone heard back from Harvard? Informal interviews or anything?

Interview Feb 1-5

@poster below: I applied for ECON+CS. I had my interview yesterday, but the prof said he wanted to sort out his preferences by the end of this week. That is, this is unusual and other faculty members will contact students in january.

To the poster below who got the Harvard interview: what research areas are you applying for? Did anyone else hear within a week after the deadline?

1 Paper published, 1 paper to be submitted, undergraduate research fellowships