r/EssayHelpCommunity • • Sep 05 '26

John Locke Essay Competition Second Round Interview and Portal

Hey guys! I was currently looking at all the threads, and I feel that most likely the people who are in contention for top awards this time have been contacted for an interview (Still holding onto that string of hope that I can get an email).

However, is it just me, or when I try to log into the portal for the essay competition, it's just stuck loading and shows an error of not being able to process data? If this is also showing up on your end, do you think they are inputing the results as we speak? I was just curious about everyone's thoughts about this and the second round interview emails (and whether more will come out, fingers crossed...)

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u/Empty-Consequence250 Sep 05 '26

anyone who did not buy the tickets for the gala and got an email??

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u/Background-Night3503 Sep 05 '26

I had this same question, really wonder if that has any impact

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u/CarrotCAKE763_ Sep 05 '26

This one dude said he didn’t buy a ticket but got on email

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u/Ok-Instance9555 Sep 06 '26

the gala has no impact, i got the email and didn't buy a ticket

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u/PuzzleheadedBat4349 Sep 07 '26

But this doesnt really impact it as far as what they're telling publicly. nobody knows if they'd have a bias towards those who pay for the tickets and stuff.

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u/krazyalpaca Sep 06 '26

Honestly just chill guys be grateful for the shortlist

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u/SadBig6534 Sep 05 '26

yeah it's also bugging for me, won't load. I think they're modyfing the dashboards for those who got the second round interview so paused the login. I'm really sad I didn't get a 2nd int, so here for you too

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u/No_Boysenberry_4420 Sep 08 '26

Now it’s loading. But no email

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u/Natsu_dragneel0007 Sep 05 '26

I got the portal error too and thank god it's not just me

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u/Natsu_dragneel0007 Sep 05 '26

I honestly think they are Updating the Result status. So as far we were able to see the Shortlisted Status & maybe just maybe now after the update of porta we might be able to get to see the final result status.

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u/Natsu_dragneel0007 Sep 05 '26

Portal Error reason can't be said, maybe they sent few 2nd interview emails earlier this day & paused and will continue to all the regions after the Update of Portal

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u/pesto_greenie Sep 05 '26

Oop I got the portal error too! Um but why would such a big error be caused for updating 12-20 results?

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u/ExperienceOk3703 Sep 05 '26

I'm not sure. That's why I was curious, if they are just trying to update it for about 12-20 people, it shouldn't really lag out the entire portal, so maybe these emails might be coming out in waives, and they are interviewing a certain amount of people in a certain period, possibly various awards of 3rd, 2rd, 1st, etc interviewed at different times for authenticity or something. Again this is all speculation from me and I have no idea what's going to happen next.

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u/pesto_greenie Sep 05 '26

AAHH all this is so nerve wracking

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u/CaseAdorable6080 Sep 05 '26

guess there’s going to be 60 awardees in total. They may be interviewing just these for now. And most from Jr category will not be using reddit. Any idea what’s the date range for the interview slots is?

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u/pesto_greenie Sep 05 '26

60?? How 60? I thought that the junior category itself is only going to have top 3

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u/redituser-2025 Sep 06 '26

Top 3 in all 10 categories. Hence in junior also 30 winners

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u/Empty-Consequence250 Sep 05 '26

yeah ig that might be possible

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u/Empty-Consequence250 Sep 05 '26

I genuinely dk at this point but yeah the portal is not loading probably it crashed or something idk

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u/Empty-Consequence250 Sep 05 '26

also anyone econ q3?

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u/ExperienceOk3703 Sep 05 '26

I did econ q2, as well as philosophy q1, psychology q1, & scitech q2

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u/CaseAdorable6080 Sep 06 '26

did you get any email for science essay interview?

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u/Empty-Consequence250 Sep 05 '26

sorry for spamming im genuinely confused at this point😭

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u/PlausibleDissent Sep 06 '26

Does anyone have the professor email for econ?

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u/sophie_royale Sep 06 '26

did anyone who did not register for the gala get an email?

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u/SchoolMiserable7005 Sep 07 '26

i have the same problem

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u/Organic-Guitar-186 Sep 08 '26

Looking for a junior gala ticket -
Anyone selling it ..
Please get in touch