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?
SDN, MSSM website, review AMCAs
What impressed you positively?
Everyone was incredibly friendly. They allowed random students to come to the waiting room to chat with us and everyone had positive things to say about MSSM. There was no 'meet only one or two students' perspective.
What impressed you negatively?
The building is a bit drab and there are literally NO KNOBs on doors. You get a door by the break in color! This only negatively impressed me to a minimal extent. It was a bit hilarious even!
What did you wish you had known ahead of time?
There are two seperate tours. There will be a financial aid presentation. The assistant dean of admissions is young, funny and good looking. The buildings seem a bit hard to navigate. The living situation is the best of all 4 medical schools in Manhatten!
What are your general comments?
It was an incredible experience. For everyone in my interview group was chatting and had interesting experiences to share. They were definitely the types of students I wanted to go to school with.
The day started with an introduction by the assistant dean. She gave us folders and outlined the day for us. Then we were given a presentation of Mount Sinai by Dr. Rows (sp?). It was extremely informative and highlighted all the positive aspects of MSSM. Next were the interviews. Unfortunately they stick to a tight schedule of 30 minutes each so be sure to say what you have to say! I really really really wished that they were longer because I had so much more to say about myself and the school but they had to stop the interview because they interview back to back. In between your interviews you be in the waiting room where random medical students will come in and chat with us. All of them seemed pretty content with the school. The financial aid presentation came next after the 2 hour time period alloted for interviews. Unfortunately the dean of financial aid was away on my interview date so we got a hand out instead. The tour was conducted by two second years and we got to see everything. The anatomy lab is by far the best of all the schools I've seen. It's large and has an INCREDIBLE VIEW! Simply amazing! Really makes you want to hang around the lab more often! The lecture halls are a bit drabby and the school is horrible at controlling a stable temperature throughout the building. The apartments are extremely nice also. We got to see the duplex apartments. HOLY COW! They also have an amazing view and the balconies connect so it seems to bring students together. The hallways of that building though...not so nice. Lunch was ok, wraps again like almost every other school but I couldn't be bothered to care because everything about the school wowed me so. The second tour was the 'clinical' one. Our tour guide was a no show but luckily a really nice third year came in and volunteered herself even though all she wanted to do was just wanted to say hi to us. We saw parts of the hospital and the simulator patients that they have. We also went to see the Morchand center.
They day went really well. All the staff and interviewers seemed incredibly happy and my interviewers seemed to love teaching. It's hard to find negative things about the school, probably that the neighborhood shuts down around 10pm according to the medical students. Oh well, there's always downtown!
What are your suggestions for the admissions office?
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