SUNY - Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine (Brooklyn)

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How did the interview impress you?

Positively 🙂

What was the stress level of the interview?

2 / 10

0 = Low Stress, 10 = High Stress

How you think you did?

7 / 10

0 = Bad, 10 = Great

What are your general comments?

Great day, everything went well. There was a lot of down time but I had brought a book, so no big deal. The interview was cool and I didn't have the crazy interviewer that some people mentioned on this website. My interview started out boring, since my interviewer asked me questions off a sheet and wrote all my answers down without even looking at me. But when we digressed and talked about topics not on the sheet the interview got a lot better.

Interview questions they asked

Why medicine?

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What was the most interesting question?

Nothing, I was asked standard questions: How do you study? How did you prepare for the MCAT? Why medicine?

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What was the most difficult question?

See above

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How did you prepare for the interview?

SDN, AMCAS app., Downstate website

What impressed you positively?

1)The students seemed happy, they didn't look washed up and depressed. 2) University Hospital is attached to the school and King's county hospital is literally across the street.

What impressed you negatively?

There was a lot of construction going on while I was there, so a lot of the buildings looked shabby, i.e. they were missing ceilings.

What did you wish you had known ahead of time?

I wished that I had known that the people who posted negative comments about the neighborhood are obviously suburbanites or country bumpkins, since Downstate is in a typical new york city neighborhood.