Reviewed AMCAS & Secondary Application, school website, SDN
What impressed you positively?
The curriculum incorporates behavioral, social and humanities medicine and nutrition as well as patient contact in the first year. The MD with recognition in research or humanistic studies.
What impressed you negatively?
The facilities are a little run down.
What did you wish you had known ahead of time?
How low stress and casual the interviews would be...even with the MD faculty member
What are your general comments?
My first interviewer was very casual and friendly. He asked typical but not too difficult questions. He seemed to talk a lot, though. It made it harder to say everything I wanted to say, but he did tell me interesting and useful information about Stony Brook and the work he was doing. The second interviewer was a second-year medical student. She just went straight through my AMCAS application and asked questions based on that information. It was good in that I had the chance to state information about myself that I didn't get to say in the first interview. There were no ethical or medical current-events questions.