Gainesville, FL
Allopathic Medical 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 interview is semi-open----they don't see your grades, recommendations, and mcats beforehand, but they see everything else. They asked me about my grades in the interview (towards the end). The interviews are scheduled to last an hour. The day is long, but very well organized.
💬 Interview Process
What is one of the specific questions they asked you?
Why do you want to be a doctor? (Be specific in your answer)
What was the most interesting question?
What would your best friend say about you? Give me three weaknesses. Where have you travelled?
How did you prepare for the interview?
interviewfeedback, sdn, read up on health care and ethics, UF website, asked TONS of questions to my student host
What was the most difficult question?
What do you see in the future of medicine/health care?
What impressed you positively?
thehappiness of students there, the beautiful facilities, the way med students are respected there and not asked to do scutwork, responsiveness of the school to students' requests, cheap in-state tuition, innovative professors, basically everything!
What impressed you negatively?
some classes are graded with letters, the school didn't seem very diverse
What did you wish you had known ahead of time?
nada
📍 Travel and Logistics
Who was the tour given by?
Student
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