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University of Southern California School of Pharmacy

Los Angeles, CA

Pharmacy Schools | Private Non-Profit

⭐ Overall Impressions

How did the interview impress you?

Negatively

What was the stress level of the interview?

6 out of 10

How you think you did?

No responses

How do you rank this school among ALL other schools?

No responses

How do you rank this school among other schools to which you've applied?

No responses
💬 Interview Questions

What is one of the specific questions they asked you?

What do you think is the most negative aspect about pharmacy?
Why USC?

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.

What was the most difficult question?

No responses
🤝 Interview Format and Logistics

How long was the interview?

20 minutes

How many people interviewed you?

2

What was the style of the interview?

One-on-one

What type of interview was it?

Closed file

Was this interview in-person or virtual?

No responses

Where did the interview take place?

At the school
📍 On-Site Experience

Who was the tour given by?

No responses

How did the tour guide seem?

No responses

How do you rank the facilities?

No responses

What is your in-state status?

No responses

What were your total hours spent traveling?

No responses

What was your primary mode of travel?

No responses

About how much did you spend on room, food, and travel?

No responses

What airport did you fly into?

No responses

Where did you stay?

No responses

What is the name of the hotel you stayed in?

No responses

How would you rate the hotel?

No responses

Would you recommend the hotel?

No responses

What is your ranking of this school's location?

No responses

What is your ranking of this area's cultural life?

No responses

What are your comments on where you stayed?

No responses
✅ Interview Preparation and Impressions

How is the friendliness of the admissions office?

No responses

How is the responsiveness of the admissions office?

No responses

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.

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.

What are your suggestions for the admissions office?

No responses