SUNY - Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine (Brooklyn) Individual responses

⭐ Overall Impressions ▼

How did the interview impress you?

Negatively

What was the stress level of the interview?

10 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?

You must be a very lonely person? I would swear on a bible that this came out of nowhere. Im not sure if this was a stress interview ?

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What was the most interesting question?

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What was the most difficult question?

This place gives horrible interviews. They have the most emotionally disturbed faculty I met at any of the med school interviews I encountered. Since I work in psychiatry they paired me with a psychiatrist who was openly anti-gay, classist and just a general a.....e. For instance he asked me why since my mother worked ina bank and my father was a teacher would I want to go to medical school? This was not asked in an open honest way; the tone was derisive.

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🤝 Interview Format and Logistics ▼

How long was the interview?

40 minutes

How many people interviewed you?

2

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?

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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?

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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?

No responses

How is the responsiveness of the admissions office?

No responses

How did you prepare for the interview?

Read the web site and reviewed my amcas application

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What impressed you positively?

the students who gave the tour were very nice

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What impressed you negatively?

The interviewer, Dr. Selzer, is a disgrace to medicine. The second interview, which the school promised would be "blind," was not. He referred to my first interviewer openly in his questions. Also (I'm being serious), there were signs of dementia and other cognitive problems. He and the other interviewer were in the same subfield of psychiatry and undoubtedly knew each other.

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What did you wish you had known ahead of time?

That the administration has a poor sense of the kind of people their faculty are

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What are your general comments?

After requesting a second interview and sending a letter about Dr. Selzer's behavior (as per the school's request; they had had problems with him before), I was then treated very badly. They sent me a "cover your a--" kind of letter that did not reflect the good will that I had shown them in mine. Though I am quite angry now, I was so incredibly patient then, that I will never forget how this institution allows its faculty to treat prospective students. If you are gay ( I am not), if you are a woman ( I am not) or if you care about issues related to human kind forget this school. Both faculty who interviewed me were white males in "high positions ( they give you the person's specialty and title when you get there)." If these are the people who they elect to interview students, all I can say is

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What are your suggestions for the admissions office?

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