University of California Irvine School of Medicine Individual responses

⭐ Overall Impressions ▼

How did the interview impress you?

Positively

What was the stress level of the interview?

2 out of 10

How you think you did?

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How do you rank this school among ALL other schools?

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

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💬 Interview Questions ▼

What is one of the specific questions they asked you?

Faculty interviewer: Tell me about yourself--you can begin at any point in your life. What kinds of classes did you take for your second major? How did you prepare for going abroad? How do you envision your practice in the future? What kinds of patients will you treat? In what kind of setting will you practice? What is the greatest problem facing healthcare today, and how would you solve it? What can I tell you about UCI? Where else did you apply? Why UCI?

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Student interviewer: What is your best quality as individual? Weakest? What do you wish you could change? Why medicine? Did you family push you to become a doctor? How do they feel about your ambitions?

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What was the most interesting question?

How do you envision your practice in the future?

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What was the most difficult question?

See above... it's so hard to have the answer to that questions when I haven't even been accepted to medical school yet.

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🤝 Interview Format and Logistics ▼

How long was the interview?

60+ minutes

How many people interviewed you?

3

What was the style of the interview?

One-on-one

What type of interview was it?

Open file

Was this interview in-person or virtual?

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Where did the interview take place?

At the school

📍 On-Site Experience ▼

Who was the tour given by?

Student

How did the tour guide seem?

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How do you rank the facilities?

No responses

What is your in-state status?

No responses

What were your total hours spent traveling?

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What was your primary mode of travel?

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About how much did you spend on room, food, and travel?

No responses

What airport did you fly into?

No responses

Where did you stay?

No responses

What is the name of the hotel you stayed in?

No responses

How would you rate the hotel?

No responses

Would you recommend the hotel?

No responses

What is your ranking of this school's location?

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

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What are your comments on where you stayed?

No responses

✅ Interview Preparation and Impressions ▼

How is the friendliness of the admissions office?

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How is the responsiveness of the admissions office?

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How did you prepare for the interview?

I read this site. Reviewed current health issues, my secondary app, and talked to students I knew there.

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What impressed you positively?

EVERYONE I met there absolutely loves it!! The students were very happy and the entire class is very closeknit. The new CPX exam was piloted at UCI, so obviously the students will be very well prepared when it is time for them to take the exam. Also, it was obvious that the students there were all very qualified, but most importantly very well-rounded---many had even turned down "higher ranked" schools for Irvine.

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What impressed you negatively?

The medical center is not on campus, and since LA traffic is horrendous, this could be very annoying. I was really not impressed with the small anatomy lab in the basement of one their buildings. The look of the school in general is pretty blah.

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What did you wish you had known ahead of time?

Some students live in Newport Beach, and others even surf before class!!

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What are your general comments?

The tour in the morning is worth it only because there is no other chance to see the campus unless you know someone or if you go back on your own later. I LOVED my student host! She was so kind and even took me out to a Tuesday night taco hangout. I met a lot of other current students, and everyone was very nice and encouraging. They had just come back from a group camping trip, and it was obvious how close everyone was. My student interviewer was also very nice, and we had a lot in common. She was friendly most of the time, but I could tell she felt like she needed to ask some pretty serious questions too. My faculty interviewer was great as well. He told me he hadn't read any of my file on purpose because he wanted to get to know me without any biases. He said he'd read my essays later. We talked for a very very long time, and it was so comfortable that I felt like we could have talked longer. I felt very good after the interview, but then got nervous that I didn't have enough concrete answers for my faculty interviewer since he mostly asked my opinions on tough issues, and he really wanted me to talk about my future a lot. But since it has been quite a while since my interview, I already know that I've been accepted :) so I know that it is best to be honest but yet always confident. O and the only reason my stress level is a 3 is because it was a UC, and I felt extra pressure because it was my only UC interview at the time. The interviews themselves we not bad at all.

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What are your suggestions for the admissions office?

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