Wilkes-Barre, PA
Pharmacy Schools | Public Non-Profit
Application Cycle: 2009-10
⭐ Overall Impressions
How did the interview impress you?
Positively 🙂
What was the stress level of the interview?
8 out of 10
0 = Low Stress, 10 = High Stress
What are your general comments?
I knew it would be competitive, since Wilkes essentially has a 6-year program. I heard that they accept 4-6 transfers per year into the 3rd year. So I was quite nervous.
I felt like I had an almost instant rapport with the faculty member who "ran" my interview, and that my advanced age (30) granted my motivations a seriousness: I have fewer years to make up for a mistake than a 19-year-old does.
💬 Interview Process
What is one of the specific questions they asked you?
How will you prepare yourself for the amount of studying you'll need to do once you're a pharmacy student, and how will you make time for it?
What was the most interesting question?
Scenario given: I am a pharmacist, & a woman comes in to fill a prescription for her child. While she's waiting for you to fill it, she goes up to the front of the store and buys a carton of cigarettes. She comes back to pick up the prescription, and when I show her how much it costs, she refuses to pay it (even though it costs around as much as the carton of smokes she's just purchased). What do I do?
How did you prepare for the interview?
Read SDN interview experiences & pharm/pre-pharm message boards. Extensively read the school's website. Tried, rather unsuccessfully, to find out more about the Wilkes-Barre area. Reminded myself to be professional and composed during the interview no matter how tough it got.
What was the most difficult question?
Why the career change (IT management/system implementation to pharmacy)?
What impressed you positively?
How personable and professional everyone was.
What impressed you negatively?
The lack of diversity in the student body relative to the diversity of a Philadelphia-area school's student body.
What did you wish you had known ahead of time?
Not to listen to the school employee who, while strolling through the waiting area, informed me that the police wouldn't ticket me where I was parked. $10 later...
📍 Travel and Logistics
Who was the tour given by?
Student
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