New Orleans, LA
Allopathic Medical 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?
yeesh. this was ridiculous. i guess it was just my experience, though. i think i may have done a whole 10 minutes of actually talking about my life in the two interviews combined. and one of the guys was a stand-in because they had screwed up our scheduling for that day, so they had to find me a different interviewer or something to that effect. the city/hospital there would be a great, diverse place to learn good clinical medicine, but the day just really rubbed me the wrong way and left me stressed out.
💬 Interview Process
What is one of the specific questions they asked you?
see above for difficult questions. my cognitive psych guy did much more talking than me, analyzing my hand motions and my body positioning.
What was the most interesting question?
ok, i got interviewed by a cognitive psychiatrist and a psyco immunologist. none of the questions were "interesting." and many of them were confrontational.
How did you prepare for the interview?
read over my app, SDN, the school's website. i just "lucked out" with interviews that really weren't about my preparation for medicine.
What was the most difficult question?
can you tell me what the primary antigen presenting cell is in the skin? exactly why do you not like mahler's music (the guy was already angry w/me for not liking mozart's early piano sonatas)?
What impressed you positively?
the students were really happy to be there and really willing to talk to you.
What impressed you negatively?
the facilities. the attitute of the two people who interviewed me.
What did you wish you had known ahead of time?
that the 3rd interview is a "working lunch," meaning you eat lunch w/a student and it's also an interview. good luck trying to eat thru that one!
📍 Travel and Logistics
Who was the tour given by?
Student
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