Los Angeles, CA
Pharmacy 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?
6 out of 10
0 = Low Stress, 10 = High Stress
What are your general comments?
The actual interview with the professor and the 1st year pharmacy student was not too bad. They were nice and I just had to talk about myself. What I was not happy with was how the students seemed very unhappy and very overworked. No one really seemed to know each other and they just seemed distant. The school had a lot of pride that got a bit old after a while as they kept trying to say how better USC was than UCLA when frankly I didn't really care.
💬 Interview Process
What is one of the specific questions they asked you?
What do you think is the most negative aspect about pharmacy?
What was the most interesting question?
Nothing really interesting. They just wanted me to tell them about myself because they didn't know anything about me because they didn't look at my file.
How did you prepare for the interview?
Looked at USC website and SDN
What impressed you positively?
how organized it was
What impressed you negatively?
how unhappy the current pharm. d students seemed. All they do is study and don't ever seem to socialize. If you just want to be studying all the time, then this school if for you. Plus the essay structure was very different in that you didn't write an essay answering a question. You had to read a paragraph from an article and then summarize it in a matter of 20 minutes. I did not like this at all because the article did not even make much sense to me and I had no real time to work on it.
What did you wish you had known ahead of time?
how short the interview was and how they had no campus tours.
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