Palo Alto, CA
Allopathic Medical Schools | Private Non-Profit
Application Cycle: 2009-10
⭐ Overall Impressions
How did the interview impress you?
Negatively ☹️
What was the stress level of the interview?
5 out of 10
0 = Low Stress, 10 = High Stress
What are your general comments?
positive in terms of interview #2, bad experience in interview #1, LONG day
💬 Interview Process
What is one of the specific questions they asked you?
Tell me about your research in words I can understand.
What was the most interesting question?
How would you apply the principles of music to medicine?
Explain why you think the vocabulary of science is precise.
Why do you think the patient asked you, a student who is not a medical doctor, to write down a medical term for her? *related to a shadowing experience.
How did you prepare for the interview?
Read my personal statement, talked to 1st years, researched labs at the med school, tried to chill out
What was the most difficult question?
Why would you want to continue here (undergrad and med school)?
What impressed you positively?
financial aid!!!, research opportunities, generally the faculty are so nice, students seem smart but not snobbish, and the admissions office is so helpful
What impressed you negatively?
stressful student interview who second guessed all my responses
What did you wish you had known ahead of time?
student interviewers give the most critical interrogations.
This is my last interview, thank god, but my blood pressure still increased during my first interview here. i think that it was the sense that my answers were not well received or respected that really got to me. i took a twenty minute walk to recuperate from the interview.
📍 Travel and Logistics
Who was the tour given by?
Student
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