Brooklyn, NY
Allopathic Medical Schools | Public Non-Profit
Application Cycle: 2009-10
⭐ Overall Impressions
How did the interview impress you?
Negatively ☹️
What was the stress level of the interview?
4 out of 10
0 = Low Stress, 10 = High Stress
What are your general comments?
I came there with an open mind, not wanting to be influenced by all the negative comments I had read. I did not get the interviewer from hell, but nevertheless I did not get a good impression. My interviewer did not seem interested in anything I had to say - he just ran down his list of questions without asking many follow-up questions to any of my responses. Luckily I was able to answer all the questions after reading this website. When I got there the staff almost made fun of me for being nervous. The worst part was that I had just come off the red-eye flight that morning and was starving, and I couldn't eat my lunch because they changed my interview time to an hour early without telling me.
💬 Interview Process
What is one of the specific questions they asked you?
Why are your graduate school grades so much higher than your undergraduate grades?
What was the most interesting question?
No interesting questions. Only the standard ones that everyone else got.
How did you prepare for the interview?
this website, read my application, read the booklet they sent me, talked to an alum
What was the most difficult question?
What happened junior year? (I had taken a semester off, and this was meant to be the "difficult situation" question, but because of the way he asked it I started talking about what happened to me personally, and that's not what he wanted.)
What impressed you positively?
the international opportunities that students have and the stipend they get, the fact that my interviewer read my application thoroughly and referred to it many times
What impressed you negatively?
everything else - the facilities (especially the gym), the tour was disorganized (I was looking forward to see the anatomy labs, but they didn't have the code for the door), the fact that they changed my interview time without telling me, the inferiority complex that they have
What did you wish you had known ahead of time?
That having enough time to eat lunch is not guaranteed, so make sure I don't come there hungry
📍 Travel and Logistics
Who was the tour given by?
Student
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