Charleston, SC
Dental Schools | Public Non-Profit
Application Cycle: 2009-10
⭐ Overall Impressions
How did the interview impress you?
Positively 🙂
What was the stress level of the interview?
3 out of 10
0 = Low Stress, 10 = High Stress
What are your general comments?
The day begins at 8:30AM. You'll want to arrive earlier to get your interview schedule, name tag, and to have your picture taken for their reference. Dr. Javed, the chair of the admissions committee, will give a brief intro and then Jerone McDaniel will then go over Financial Aid Services. Then from 9AM to noon are interviews. At noon, prospective applicants, professors and current dental students have lunch. After awhile, the professors will leave and the current dental students will field questions from applicants until 1PM. At 1PM is the campus tour and then interviews continue from 2 to 3PM. Depending on the schedule you receive, you could be done with interviews before lunch.
💬 Interview Process
What is one of the specific questions they asked you?
Of course, the question of the day: Why do you want to be a dentist?
What was the most interesting question?
What has been your most significant achievement so far?
How did you prepare for the interview?
Read about the school, Used this website and read past interview questions not only for this school, but also others.
What was the most difficult question?
What was it that made you decide you wanted to be a dentist?
What impressed you positively?
The staff and faculty are very friendly. The chair of the admissions committee makes it clear that they are not there to make you nervous and that philosophy shows in the interviews. They're much more conversational than interrogational.
What impressed you negatively?
Nothing really other than learning that there is no way that the class I would be entering with will be able to utilize the new dental building since they are still waiting on funding and ground hasn't been broken yet.
What did you wish you had known ahead of time?
Nothing. This is the second time I applied.
📍 Travel and Logistics
Who was the tour given by?
Student
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