Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

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How did the interview impress you?

Positively 🙂

What was the stress level of the interview?

3 / 10

0 = Low Stress, 10 = High Stress

How you think you did?

5 / 10

0 = Bad, 10 = Great

How do you rank this school among ALL other schools?

9 / 10

0 = Below, 10 = Above

How do you rank this school among other schools to which you've applied?

9 / 10

0 = Below, 10 = Above

What are your general comments?

You do a quick interview with someone on the admissions staff. No big deal but make sure you know what is on your application. Then there is a group interview. Some groups seemed to have harder times than others. I think the biggest trap here is that it is actually so laid back that you feel like you can say anything funny or quirky, but when I thought back on it there were some things I wish I hadn't said (They asked me were I would take them if they visited me at school and I said tailgating, but apparently a lot of people associate tailgating with binge drinking when I was thinking more of hotdogs and tossing the football around).

Interview questions they asked

Group interview question. You are stranded on the moon 200 miles away from your mother ship. Here are your supplies, rank them in order of importance.

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What was the most interesting question?

They asked the girl sitting next to me how many fire hydrants there are in the United States. Then they asked me why they asked that question.

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What was the most difficult question?

If you were to read your obituary in the New York Times in 2085, what would it say you did. Please keep in mind that to get into the New York Times you must have done something spectacular.

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How did you prepare for the interview?

Read SDN, talk to students (I stayed with a student and got to talk people that way), read the website.

What impressed you positively?

The facilities are amazing, absolutely amazing. The students seemed really down to earth and they actually seemed to have lives outside of the classrom (I went to a socceer game that the medical student I was staying with was playing in).

What impressed you negatively?

It is very expensive to live in Chicago, and I must confess I am not used to some of the hassels of living in a big city.

What is your ranking of this school's location?

8 / 10

0 = Bad, 10 = Great

What is your ranking of this area's cultural life?

10 / 10

0 = Bad, 10 = Great