New York, 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?
3 out of 10
0 = Low Stress, 10 = High Stress
How you think you did?
6 out of 10
0 = Bad, 10 = Great
How do you rank this school among ALL other schools?
8 out of 10
0 = Below, 10 = Above
How do you rank this school among other schools to which you've applied?
3 out of 10
0 = Below, 10 = Above
What are your general comments?
The worst impression, however, was the interviewer...it's one thing to have just given a cursory glance at someone's file, but it's another thing to, say, after spending a fair amount of time talking about my mom's serious illness and death, he later asked how my mom was doing these days. He also attacked me for my ''mediocre'' undergrad gpa...which was a 3.6 (and last time I checked, an A- average wasn't that bad). At one point he commented on how he had assumed I'm Catholic based on my surname (I'm not)...and that seemed to afront him somehow. He seemed to think that ''dual degree'' meant people who go to NYU for their MD and then someday down the road might get another degree, and he similarly couldn't really answer my other questions. Who knows, maybe it was a stress interview, but even if it was and I am accepted, it left a really bad impression about NYU if this was an example of the kind of people on their faculty.
💬 Interview Process
What was the most interesting question?
If you were in charge of a medical school, what would you change?
How did you prepare for the interview?
Browsed NYU's website...this was my 7th interview so I didn't really do much general prep.
What was the most difficult question?
So how's your mom doing now? (Um, she's still dead...did you not pay attention when we discussed this in depth five minutes ago?)
What impressed you positively?
Most of the students were happy, and Bellvue is...well...Bellvue.
What impressed you negatively?
The facilities seemed run down, 6 people to a body in anatomy lab, the one faculty member we met during lunch was just bizarre and didn't really talk much about NYU and didn't seem to know any of the actual students eating with us. The dorms are super-tiny even for Manhattan standards (I went to school in NYC). The ''tour'' of Bellvue consisted of parading us through the CCU to gawk at patients, which I found a little tasteless. Students are in class *a lot* and there seemed to be less audio/web support than at other schools. I guess all in all, nothing was horrible, but I've just seen everything done better at other places.
What did you wish you had known ahead of time?
That the vast majority of students come straight from college. I'm a nontrad, and this was actually the first school I've interviewed at where the majority of students hadn't taken at least a year off between college and med school.
🤝 Campus and Facilities
How do you rank the facilities?
4 out of 10
0 = Bad, 10 = Great
What is your ranking of this school's location?
9 out of 10
0 = Bad, 10 = Great
What is your ranking of this area's cultural life?
10 out of 10
0 = Bad, 10 = Great
📍 Travel and Logistics
Who was the tour given by?
Student
How did the tour guide seem?
Enthusiastic
What is your in-state status?
Out of state
What were your total hours spent traveling?
4-6 hours
What was your primary mode of travel?
Airplane
About how much did you spend on room, food, and travel?
$101-$200
What airport did you fly into?
JFK
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