Howard University College of Medicine Individual responses

⭐ 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?

Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

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Why Howard? Unfortunately, after all the above, I just could not figure out why.

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Why medicine?

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What was the most interesting question?

What do you think your relationship with your patients will be like?

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What was the most difficult question?

What's your excuse for this particular grade?

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🤝 Interview Format and Logistics ▼

How long was the interview?

60+ minutes

How many people interviewed you?

1

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?

Student

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?

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How is the responsiveness of the admissions office?

No responses

How did you prepare for the interview?

practice answering questions, read info and my application materials

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What impressed you positively?

that I would be done with the interview with plenty of time to make my flight

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What impressed you negatively?

pretty much everything else--I got to the office thinking I could drop my things off, visit the class, and have my interview done that morning. No one showed up in the office until well after 9 am, when they claimed the interviews started at 8:30. My open-file interview turned out to be closed, which I wouldn't have minded had I known ahead of time, but the interviewer knew nothing about me, while I was expected to know everything about the school. She flippantly says, "I haven't read your file" and sits there reading in front of me. The office lost my recommendation letters (if you've been there, this is no surprise), some of the students who talked to us complained about having to actually work when they got there (imagine that--and they want to be physicians). The only stop on the tour was the library, which the guides bragged as being state-of-the-art,then said they never used it. Such a low pass rate on the boards made me wonder what exactly they were doing around there. The woman that came by to field our questions about the curriculum looked and acted as if she would have preferred to be anywhere except there. The neighborhood wherethe school is located--watch your back!

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What did you wish you had known ahead of time?

That it wasn't a good idea to walk through the neighborhood the evening before. The claim that profs take such an interest in students was a lie. That my interviewer would not answer any of my questions about the school and its programs (like the issue of some residency programs being on probation), saying simply that "that is being addressed."

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