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University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

Chicago, IL

Allopathic Medical Schools | Private Non-Profit

Application Cycle: 2009-10

⭐ Overall Impressions

How did the interview impress you?

Positively 🙂

What was the stress level of the interview?

3 out of 10
0 = Low Stress, 10 = High Stress

What are your general comments?

Pritzer is a great school. The interview process is very relaxed. You interviewers don't get to look at your grades and scores but rather your essays and activities. Make for a great conversation.
💬 Interview Process

What is one of the specific questions they asked you?

Why a doctor and not a nurse or some other profession more needed in the health care sector?

What was the most interesting question?

If your AMCAS was blank, no activities, no awards, no scores, how would you describe yourself to me?

How did you prepare for the interview?

SDN, U Chicago Materials, reviewed my secondary

What was the most difficult question?

Relate a time you had truly failed.

What impressed you positively?

Almost everything, the integration of the school into the U of C campus, the hospitals, the honesty with which the students spoke about the school, the support the Office of Medical Education gives to its students.

What impressed you negatively?

The preclinical classes are mostly taught by PhD's who don't have a clinical focus.

What did you wish you had known ahead of time?

The supportive environment, very different than what people usually think of when they think about University of Chicago.
📍 Travel and Logistics

Who was the tour given by?

Student