How many people interviewed you?
| Response Average | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 1.86 | 473 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| Positively | 345 |
| Negatively | 45 |
| No change | 80 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 2.83 | 474 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 7.47 | 316 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 6.30 | 280 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| In Person | 0 |
| Virtual | 10 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 5 minutes | 1 |
| 10 minutes | 2 |
| 15 minutes | 14 |
| 20 minutes | 30 |
| 25 minutes | 34 |
| 30 minutes | 163 |
| 35 minutes | 55 |
| 40 minutes | 63 |
| 45 minutes | 51 |
| 50 minutes | 27 |
| 55 minutes | 1 |
| 60+ minutes | 39 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| At the school | 381 |
| At a regional location | 36 |
| At another location | 55 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| One-on-one | 471 |
| In a group | 1 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| Open file | 439 |
| Closed file | 13 |
| Response Average | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 1.86 | 473 |
"Why do you want to join Drexel?"
"why drexel? what do you think will be a challenge for you going to medical school? What kind of doctor do you want to be?"
"What do you see as a challenge for your career in medicine?"
"Why did you choose to apply to Drexel?"
"Tell me about yourself. then after answering, why do you want to be a doctor?"
"Traditional - Why medicine, why this specific activity"
"Do you have any doctors in your family?"
"Why are you interested in Drexel?"
"Why Drexel? Then proceeded to shoot down everything I stated. Repeated stated "that is not only found at Drexel, what else" or "yeah that might seem like a good program at Drexel but it's not nearly as good in reality as on paper"."
"Tell me about your work experience"
"Why are you here?"
"What undergraduate school did you go to?"
"So you mentioned many doctors have jokingly said turn around now, why do you still want to be a physician?"
"What do you think of the Affordable Care Act?"
"Assuming multiple acceptances what factors would influence your school choice?"
"What is your opinion about humor in medicine?"
"tell me about your best friend"
"What are the types of problems you think you will face as a future physician?"
"He asked about a specific course I took first year "First Year Preceptorial" as it was in a letter of rec, or "Conversations in a World of Strangers" as on the transcript. Probably because of the discrepancy. File specific, but transcript is fair game."
"Tell me more about your background and your family"
"How do you think (my school)'s basketball team is going to do this year?"
"What did you write about (in the essay prompt)?"
"What is the hardest thing you've had to deal with academically?"
"What does your sisters do?...Kinda random"
"What are your interests in medicine?"
"Student: Why Drexel? What do you do for fun? What's your favorite movie and book? What questions do you have for me?"
"Do you have any questions for me?"
"I know this, this and that about you. What else should I know about you?"
"In your opinion, what are the top 3 most important advances in medical technology?"
"What have you done since graduating and now"
"Tell me about (resume experience)."
"Why a doctor and not a nurse?"
"What do you think about the current health care system in the US?"
"Which curricula would you prefer once enrolled? PIL (small group based) or IFM (lecture based)?"
"Explain what you learned from your clinical volunteer experience..."
"So, what do you want to talk about?"
"WHy do you want to go to Drexel?"
"Here are the three possible ethical question essay prompts I'm aware of. I may have paraphrased them or gotten the details wrong but if they're close enough that that won't matter. 1) You're a doctor, it's 4:00 pm and time for you to go home. You have long-standing evening plans. Your patient patient is just going in for a diagnostic test for a serious medical condition that will take an hour to complete. Do you cancel your plans in order to be there when your patient's results come back or leave your patient in the care of the on call team? Explain your reasoning 2) You're riding in your friend's car when she runs a stop sign/red light and gets into an accident (no fatalities/injuries/damage of that magnitude). She asks you to be involved in lying about the cause of the accident for insurance purposes. What do you do? 3) Rules exist for a reason but aren't applicable to all situations. Explain a time you've broken the rules and some of the ethical consequences (I forget exactly which they ask for, but if you think about an example and what you learned, why you broke the rules, and other ethical ramifications of such a scenario, you'll be prepared) You have about half of the space on one side of a unlined sheet of standard printer paper to answer the prompt."
"why did you choose to go to (my undergrad school)?"
"What is your motivation for becoming a doc."
"What extracurriculars did you do?"
"Tell me about what they do at your school for fun"
"How do you relieve stress?"
"Explain these weaknesses in your application."
"Who is a role model for your medical goals?"
"Why are you interested in medicine?"
"What do HMO and PPO stand for?"
"Did I like my undergrad school"
"The student and I had a pretty easy flow of conversation and really wasn't an interview at all. The professor/doctor had me shadow him a bit and then we did the interview in his clinic's break room. He asked me if I was satisfied with my MCAT score."
"What made you decide to pursue a college education? (I'm a non-trad.)"
"What impressed you positively about Drexel?"
"Drexel had two interviews: student and faculty. The questions that were asked by faculty were very simple and it was very conversational. The student interview for me lasted almost hour and a half, but normally its only half an hour. "
"Why were your undergraduate grades so low as compared to your post-bacc grades?"
"If you had to teach [skill from application], how would you go about it? Tell me how it all works."
"Without political opinion, how do you think the potential changes, or potential lack there of, in the healthcare system will impact your future practice?"
"What kind of clinical experiences have you had?"
"Faculty: Tell me about your family. Why Medicine? Tell me about your research. What was your most/least favorite class and why? Why Drexel? How can Drexel help you achieve your goals? Student: Why Drexel? What do you do for fun? What is your favorite book/song? "
"What led you to pursue medicine?"
"why medicine/medical school"
"Why medicine ?."
"Without repeating anything in your file, tell me about yourself?"
"Tell me about X activity."
"What do you think are negative aspects of going to medical school? being a doctor?"
"Do you think you can handle the stress?"
"What was the most difficult medical decision you ever made in your life? "
"Who inspired you to study medicine?"
"Why Drexel? Why medicine? General questions about GPA and extracurriculars. Questions regarding my graduate program. "
"what do your parents think about you going into medicine"
"What specific areas of medicine interest you?"
"Why New York? (for undergrad)"
"Abortion, which I thought was inappropriate."
"What did you do before you decided to apply to the medical schools?"
"Why medicine? How did you get from Cornell to Drexel (I've been out of college for 5 years)? Why medicine and not public health? Have you been discouraged by anyone in persuing medicine? If you were President Obama, how would you handle the healthcare crisis? "
"Tell me about yourself ... ... what else ... what else ... what else"
"What are the most important qualities of doctors today."
"where r u from? very conversational"
"If you do not get into medical school this round, what would you do?"
"Quoting from previous poster.. pretty much word for word same question (aka: Same interviewer) Are you ready to pay the price? Your kids are not going to see you, you will miss great part of their life, are you really sure you want to go through with this? And he went on and on saying how his kids still judge him for been missing in their life."
"Why did you get these 3 C's? What makes you think you are ready for medical school? (my GPA is a 3.7 but i got 3 C's) Do you even know your limits?"
"Why did you choose your undergrad? "
"Why medicine? What type of doctor? What kind of environment would you want to practice?"
"What do you think is the biggest challenge your generation of physicians will have to overcome?"
""You've taken a rather circuitous route to medical school...explain""
"Tell me about your research experience."
"Student Interview: Why do you like Drexel? Faculty Interview: Tell me about your research involvement as an undergraduate?"
"What are so great about you?"
"Why did you change careers?"
"why should i help you get into drexel med?"
"Tell me a little bit about X (this was something on my app)."
"Why did you transfer schools?"
"Tell me about this activity?"
"Tell me about your childhood, family, siblings."
"Tell me about (such and such activity from my amcas)"
"what are your academic strengths and weaknesses?"
"Why do you want to go into medicine? Why Drexel?"
"Tell me a little about yourself."
"Why didn't you get accepted to medical school the first time?"
"What is your greatest strenght? weakness?"
"Did you do any research?"
"what aren't you looking forward to as a doctor?"
"What have you done since graduating from college?"
"Say that being a doctor never existed, what else would you do?"
"What do you do for fun? How do you relax?"
"What are some issues facing medicine?"
"Why did you apply to Drexel? Why did you choose to pursue medicine?"
"Why didn't you retake the MCAT? What are some academic challenges you have faced? Why medicine?"
"Why Medicine? Why Drexel? "
"Mostly conversational"
"Is there anything you'd like to explain?"
"How did you get involved in cancer research?"
"Other than medicine, what could you see yourself doing?"
"What isn't in your application that you want us to know about?"
"How did you pick your undergrad"
"Tell me about your experiences and how you were lead to pursue a career in medicine."
"What is the one thing people need to prevent disease?"
"What medical specialties particularly interest you?"
"What does HMO stand for?"
"Typical stuff. Why medicine, why Drexel, etc"
"Why medicine? Is it because your father is a doctor?"
"positive/negative qualities about you."
"Favorite type of wine? The faculty interviewer asked about the origin of my name and we started talking about French wines."
"are you qualified to study medicine? (assuming b/c of my poor start to my undergrad)"
"What kinds of ethical problems do you think you will face as a doctor? How will you handle them?"
"Tell me about yourself... including childhood, undergrad, postbacc, jobs, life."
"Tell me about your family, background, why you chose your undergrad school, and how did you got to medicine."
"What's wrong with our health care system?"
"The first things she said were: Ok I want to know about you, I want to know about your family, what do your parents do, any siblings, where you're from, where you went to college, how you chose this college and your major, and what made you decide to pursue medicine. This was really intimidating at first but it allowed for a great flexible conversation with a lot of tangent/joke room. If you get Lisa Cifeli, you are in luck. I heard the other interviewers were great too."
"Tell me about your extracurricular activities."
"How did you know medicine was right for you?"
"See "immigrant" question above."
"What do you think the biggest challenge will be coming into medical school?"
"What else would you do, if it were not medicine?"
"Which one of the undergraduate class did you not like the most?"
"Asked me about an ethical issue I had faced."
"Why do you want to be a doctor? (The only question asked by the student interviewer)"
"Why would you want to move from California to Pennsylvania."
"When did you realize you wanted to go into medicine?"
"do you know healthcare issues exist"
"do you feel deprived?"
"So, I see you've lived in the UK most of your life. Which healthcare system is better? (I answered the US, but I guess my interviewer disagreed, and then proceeded to grill me on my choice)"
"the cannibalism thing"
"What kind of medicine do you want to go into?"
"What was it like being a latchkey kid? (i can't believe he asked this, what a dlckhead)"
"Tell me about your MCATs, grades, personal experiences ect..."
"What are you most passionate."
"Tell me about XX activity."
"Why I picked biomedical engineering as my major"
"Do you know if you would rather do PIL or IFM? They have 2 tracks of curricula. You have to pick one. "
"Tell me about yourself (where you were born, what schools you attended and why). "
"Tell me about your research."
"Why do you want to be a doctor?"
"What is your wish list?"
"Why did I chose my undergraduate college?"
"what do you see yourself doing in 15 years?"
"Tell me about your family and friends"
"what do you do for fun"
"Why did you study abroad in England?"
"why medicine"
"why did you choose your undergrad school?"
"All questions were specific to my file"
"Why did you get a C- in [insert class here]? "
"Why don't you just tell me a little bit about yourself?"
"Why Drexel"
"how did you choose your undergrad?"
"Biggest problem facing medical field today"
"What is a pressing issue in healthcare?"
"What was your previous career?"
"What do you want me to know about you? What else? What else?"
"If you were treating a patient who disagreed with your course of action, what would you do?"
"tell me how you became interested in medicine and why you switched from your original intended career (i definitely like this question better than straight up "why medicine?")"
"How do you feel about leaving your family and moving here for medical school? (Im from CA)"
"what do you think is the most challenging issue facing health care today?"
"what do you do for fun? (it seems like fun is a big deal at drexel, another thing i liked)"
"see most interesting question"
"How I felt about certain Supreme Court cases concerning euthanasia."
"What was you favorite undergraduate course?"
"Tell me about your transition of coming from Hong Kong when you were a kid. (asked by both faculty and student)"
"Typical questions"
"What was your most challenging course in college? (faculty interview)"
"tell me about yourself and your parents."
"What is the worst part about being a doctor?"
"You seemed to have a rough start in college, can you tell me about that?"
"What brings you to medicine?"
"Questions about my work experience"
"If your friend was stressed and questioned his or her decision to continue residency, what would you say?"
"Why I applied to Drexel."
"Why medicine and not a translator? (referring to my experience as a medical translator)"
"Why do I want to be a doctor?"
"Was Jane Austen a feminist? (I'd just taken a Jane Austen class.)"
"how do you handle stress?"
"research"
"Your strengths and weaknesses. "
"What are some of your hobbies?"
"Most questions were about my work experiences: Why did you pursue service work abroad?"
"Tell me about your undergraduate research project?"
"Explain two classes (took when I went abroad) and describe how they relate to medicine."
"favorite/least favorite class"
"When did you decide you wanted to become a doctor?"
"She asked me specific questions about classes i had taken in college, like economics and philosophy -- she then linked them to healthcare issues"
"How do you know you even like to be around sick people?"
"See difficult question."
"How come I did so poor in college, especially my undgrad science, while my postbac grades have been so good."
"Describe your research. Why don't you try an experiment that makes no sense?"
"see above"
"Tell me about your volunteer experience (she referenced my essay)."
"Why do you want to be a doctor"
"Why did you take the MCAT twice"
"tell me about your background"
"Why did you decide to pursue medicine as opposed to something else."
"Tell me about yourself (again, because he did not have my file)"
"Most were specific to my application"
"Tell me about yourself. "
"The doctor only asked one question: Ask me anything you want to know about Drexel."
"Why Medicine/Drexel?"
"Explain your verbal score. What's a big problem in medicine today? "
"do you think your Christianity will negatively influence your practice of medicine?"
"She said upfront that she wasn't going to ask me anything about academics and that she just wanted to know if I was a normal, TV watching kind of person. She wanted to know that I had a life outside of books."
"Motivations for going into medicine"
"why didnt i go to medical school immediately following college?"
"What healthcare issues do you think you will be facing as a future physician? (Faculty Interviewer)"
"Tell me about yourself, Your family"
"Why do I want to become a doctor (Faculty Interviewer)."
"why do you want to come to drexel?"
"Tell me about your clinical/laboratory research experiences."
"Why did you attend a community college?"
"tell me about yourself?"
"Why med school?"
"Have any of the physicians you've worked with in the past tried to discourage you from going into medicine given the state of healthcare?"
"Tell me more about your _________. (research, jobs, volunteer work, blah blah blah)."
"why med discuss research exp"
"Tell me about yourself."
"Why have you been in school for so long?"
"What is the most problematic issues in the field of healthcare today?"
"What was your fav/least fav. class?"
"tell me about yourself"
"Have you shadowed a physician?"
"What other professions have you considered? What led you to your decision to pursue a career in medicine?"
"Tell me about your decision to pursue medicine. "
"See above; also, how does your family feel about you entering medicine?"
"What specialties interest you?"
"What do you think of the big rat?"
"Have you ever been to another country?"
"Which country did I think had the highest life expectancy rate?"
"what would you do if not med?"
"Tell me about your leadership experiences. "
"Tell me about yourself. Where do you see yourself in 10 years? What would you like me to tell the admissions committee. (faculty)"
""Why do you want to be a physician""
"MCAT Verbal Prompt (Physician Interview)"
"Tell me about yourself. (Gotta love that one)"
"None were very specific, mostly my faculty interview wanted to verify my activities. "
"What are the problems with medicine today? (Followed by) Any other problems with medicine today?"
"The interviewer went through my file and asked about the activities, etc. that I was doing. Most of the interview was based on this."
"tell me about a memorable patient experience"
"What problems do you expect to face in health care?"
"How would your best friend describe you?"
"Tell me about your research?"
"Why your major?"
"Why Drexel? What will you bring to the medical community?"
"How are you doing in your current courses?"
"strength and weakness of our healthcare system. how would you improve weakness"
"Why do you want to go into medicine?"
"Tell me about this experience...what did you learn from it? This went on and on..until it was time for the interview to be over!"
"What is the most difficult obstacle you've had to overcome?"
"Why did you wait to apply? Why go directly to med school after college? "
"Basic questions about research, volunteer, working, etc. "
"what did you get out of these specific classes? (mine were "the art of war" and "british and irish drama 1956-1965""
"Tell me what you are most passionate about?"
"Tell me about the experiences that led you to decide on a career in medicine."
"What motivated you to work with Alzheimer's Dimentia patients?"
"Why did you do so poorly your first year of school if you always knew that you wanted to be a doctor"
"what do you see are your strengths?"
"Why Medicine?"
"What was the biggest challenge you have faced?"
"why score low on verbaL???"
"Have you interviewed elsewhere? What schools? What did you think of them?"
"Why medicine? Tell me about your parents. How do they feel about you going into medicine? What was your most interesting class in college? What was your most difficult class? Why did you choose your major?"
"Why Drexel? Why Philadelphia?"
"What hospital experience do you have?"
"When did you decide about medicine?"
"Tell me something interesting you've done at work."
"What kind of books do you like to read?"
"Explain your research."
"What do you think will be the most challenging aspect of medical school?"
"You have a lot of research background, but only a few experiences in clinical medicine. Do you think you should be looking at an M.D. or a Ph.D.?"
"By student interviewer: Describe a difficult situation that you have had to overcome. What do you like to do for fun?"
"What is the most difficult challenge you have faced (bnoth interviewers asked me this)?"
"What would you write on your epitaph?"
"Why Drexel/PA?"
"Challenge you overcame? "
"Would you be interested in joining clubs here? "
"Tell me a little about your family background. "
"What challenges have you faced?"
"why doctor?"
"Why Drexel?"
"Tell me about yourself type of interview. "
"What do you see as the biggest problem facing medicine today? How woudl you solve it? Who do you think is to blame?"
"Why do you want to become a doctor and what kind?"
"Tell me about a challenge you overcame?"
"student interviewer asked if there were any challenges I overcame, what I do in my spare time"
"What difficulties have you overcome?"
"my medical experience"
"what is your biggest accomplishment so far? "
"What challenges have you faced and what did you gain from overcoming them?"
"My interviewer, although he never asked, mentioned that he was 'supposed' to ask me about the current and future state of health care as it related to managed care, malpractice etc"
"If patient wanted you to perform a task that was against your religious beliefs, how would you handle it?"
"Tell me about a time you experience a challenge and how you deal with it?"
"asked about my institutional action"
"What is one topic or issue currently facing our modern healthcare system?"
"Tell me about a stressful time in your life? What did you learn from it"
"tell me about (a specific role from my primary app.) / with further clarifying questions"
"What problem can you identify in healthcare today?"
"What makes an excellent doctor excellent?"
"What are you most proud of?"
"Is Drexel your top choice?"
"Explain your IA"
"What are the qualities you think a physician should have?"
"What are the characteristics that are important for a physician to have?"
"What would your best friend say your best and worst quality is?"
"Out of all your experiences, which taught you the most about yourself?"
"Tell me about your family"
"What do you think is the biggest problem in healthcare today?"
"What was your most important experience"
"Have you done any clinical research?"
"Tell me more about this (specific activity in my application)"
"What is one word your friends would use to describe you?"
"What did you learn from _____? (a mission trip I attended that was part of my AMCAS)"
"Tell me about your experience as a _________. What did you learn?"
"Tell me the best thing you learned/ that came from being a burn survivor."
"what is something your best friend likes about you? what is something your best friend dislikes about you?"
"What kind of research do you do? (pancreatic and colon cancer research listed in application). We ended up going into a fair amount of detail."
"What kind of doctor do you want to be?"
"Where do you see yourself in 20 years from now?"
"What can I tell you about our school?"
"Where do you see yourself in 20 years? I said I am into PCP"
"Faculty: Ethical problems in medicine? Why Drexel? Talk about your experience with X activity? My interview with the faculty member (who I believe was on the adcom) was mildly catastrophic. I completely botched the question "Why Drexel?" and it went downhill from there."
"Because of everything that you have been through, tell me how you will balance the very heavy workload that is to come."
"Ten years from now, what do you see yourself doing, and where do you see yourself at?"
"What do you think about health care economics?"
"Who do you admire as a doctor"
"Did you apply anywhere else in Philadelphia?"
"Why do you want to come to Philadelphia or the east coast since you're from California?"
"Why do you want to come to Philadelphia? I'm from Texas"
"Who did you have for guidance towards medicine throughout your life?"
"What can I tell you about Drexel?"
"Why did you take the MCAT multiple times? Was one section harder for you?"
"What questions do you have for me?"
"What are you no good at?"
"Did your father's illness inspire you to go into medicine?"
"What are the problems in health care?"
"Why would you want to come here when you've been accepted at a school in your hometown?"
"Tell me about your personality."
"Explain your poor undergrad performance and subsequent change."
"I see your parent is a physician, how did that influence you?"
"How many people in the US don't have health insurance?"
"Why I do so much community service"
"What do you think of healthcare reform?"
"What did you like about working in [the field I used to work in]."
"Why didn't you re-take the MCAT?"
"Tell me about your research activities."
"Why did you pick your undergraduate school considering you were grown up {insert location}?"
"What will you do if you're not accepted anywhere this year?"
"Given your [causal root of non-trad status] how do you feel you will fare in medical school?"
"What are you looking for in a medical school, when you have to choose one come May 15th? "
"What was this research experience? What did you actually do in the research lab?"
"Strengths/Weaknesses"
"not sure"
"Why Drexel ?."
"What interests you about medicine?"
"Why apply now and not earlier?"
"What is your mother's influence on your wanting to become a doctor since she's a nurse?"
"Where is your family from ?"
"How do you handle failure? "
"what fields of medicine interest you"
"What are your outside interests?"
"Questions about research"
"Why a year off?"
"Where is your family from?"
"Why Drexel? why not?"
"Tell me about your GPA (I had lower undergrad grades, higher grad school grades). Tell me about your MCAT score. What are your strengths/weaknesses? Do you have any sibilings? What's their professions? "
"If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?"
"Tell me about your current job"
"Who is your role model"
"Do you consider yourself serious or easy-going? (I said easy going, and he disagreed)"
"Why is your verbal score so low (8 v, but 30 overall)? Are you going to retake this or you are keeping your low score? (the average MCAT for Drexel is 31 and a 3.6 GPA)"
"Asked me about my writing sample score. "
"How did you get to this point...timeline."
"With 47 million people uninsured in the most developed country in the world, how would you solve this problem?"
"What is the biggest problem in Health Care today?"
"What classes are you taking in your Master's program?"
"Student: Why medicine and not research, explain your real motivation behind that? Faculty: If you made a mistake as a physician and severely injured your patient, how would you handle it? Would you be able to continue with your day and see other patients objectively?"
"Why Drexel? Medicine?"
"what are you doing in your year-off?"
"why clinical medicine and not research?"
"Tell me about your research experience?"
"Why didnt you take the MCAT again with your poor performance in this section?"
"Why medicine and not PhD?"
"What are your strengths and weaknesses"
"what are the negative aspects of the medical profession?"
"what speciality are you interested in doing?"
"What scares you about medicine? With all those things in mind, you still want to go into medicine?"
"favorit class and least favorite?"
"Asked questions about my AMCAS application in detail. "
"A sort of ''tell me about yourself'' question but more so about where I've lived and where I'm from"
"What leadership activities do you have?"
"Questions regarding things I said in my personal statement."
"What is the strongest thing in your application?"
"what is the one thing you cherish?"
"What was the defining moment that made you decided on changing back from business to medicine?"
"What would you say your academic weaknesses are? "
"Do you think you can handle medical school?"
"Tell me about yourself and by that I mean don't list your gpa and accomplishments, tell me who you really are, what makes you tick"
"What is your greatest strength? What is your biggest weakness?"
"Why did you choose to go to X College?"
"no really, why medicine? Why? (because....) No, Why?"
"What are some of the benefits and drawbacks of medicine? "
"What is plan B if you can't get into medicine?"
"Why did you not continue to pursue more clinical experiences?"
"How would you deal with a difficult patient? What if a patient did not want to listen to you treatment plan? "
"Where do you see yourself 10 years from now?"
"Explain you're MCAT score"
"Tell me about your research"
"Why did you chose Drexel?"
"You have many interests. Do you imagine combining them with the practice of medicine in any way?"
"Tell me about yourself"
"Why did you apply to this school"
"Specific questions about my experiences listed on my amcas"
"Why medicine? Why Drexel?"
"Where do you see yourself in 10 years?"
"How many uninsured Americans are there? "
"Why Drexel? How much do you really want to come here?"
"how do students stay in touch with the outside world?"
"how do you like it here after moving from india?"
"Tell me about your interest in Third World health issues. What did you learn from your experience in Peru and Zimbabwe?"
"what attributes should a doctor have and what have you done that shows those attributes?"
"What have you improved since your last application? Anything new?"
"Have you ever seen something go wrong while a doctor is treating a patient?"
"Not too many clear questions, mostly elaboration on my activities and ensuing conversation"
"Are there any connections between your interest in medicine and your background in philosophy?"
"What do you most look foward to in medical school?"
"What makes you special compared to all the other qualified candidates?"
"What do you think leadership is? How have you exercised leadership?"
"What do you want to do with medicine."
"Why do you want to come to Drexel?"
"Asked me about my circuitous path to med school."
"What do you think of the immigration laws in the news?"
"Tell me about your clinical volunteer experience."
"things specific to my file"
"Tell me about your clinical experiences."
"Tell me about your work"
"Why here?"
"why did i chose drexel"
"why do you think you were not accepted previously"
"What is your research about?"
"How do you think you would handle moving so far away?"
"Why do you volunteer?"
"How did you decide which schools to apply to?"
"What would your parents think if you told them you didn't want to be a doctor anymore? (he implied several times that my parents pressured me into being a doctor...and BOTH of his children are doctors!)"
"What are your wishes?"
"What qualities do you possess that would make you a good physician?"
"How did you choose your undergraduate school? Did you like it? Why drexel? Why are you here? "
"Student = What do you do for fun? What type of medicine do you want to go into?"
"How will you incorporate other non-medical skills into the field?"
"You had a shaky start to college, please explain (not an exact quote but something along this line)."
"How did you chose your undergrad institution?"
"What happened in my winter term of sophomore year with my grades (all three of my C's on my transcript were here)"
"none really...my faculty interviewer did most of the talking and my student interviewer didn't really ask much. "
"My interviewer then asked me questions as I told my story, so it was fairly conversational."
"Why do you want to be a doctor?"
"Tell me about your research?"
"Why medicine"
"Would you move to Philadelphia?"
"What was my most challenging course?"
"why did you choose your undergrad school?"
"What made you want to go into medicine?"
"why do you want to be a doctor"
"why Drexel"
"what activities are you still involved in (referring to AMCAS?)"
"Your bad grades (from 6 years ago) don't match your good MCAT scores (from 6 months ago). Why? "
"Why do you feel compelled towards medicine? "
"Explain your verbal MCAT score"
"what would you do if not medicine?"
"How did you choose which schools to apply to?"
"How would you remedy this?"
"Tell me about you clinical and research experiences."
"Which track do you think you would do if you came to Drexel (PIL or lecture)?"
"Why do you feel called to help people through medicine and not through any other means?"
"As a follow up- do you have an example of a time where you have had to pursuade someone to believe you?"
"What fields of medicine are you currently considering?"
"how are you uniquely qualified for medicine?"
"volunteer experiences (I dont remember the exact ques..)"
"WHy not just a PhD?"
"what are the weaknesses of your application?"
"are you taking some fun classes this semester?"
"How do you deal with stress? (student interview)"
"What I thought was wrong with the health care system."
"How did you come to the decision of Medicine?"
"What is the biggest problem in healthcare? (I was prepared for that one)"
"Tell me about your research.(faculty interview)"
"When did you decide to be an MD and what have you done since then?"
"You have a minor in English, yet you did only fair on the VR and essay sections of MCAT"
"Challenges facing future doctors"
"Describe a problem in healthcare today"
"Why I chose to attend my undergraduate institution."
"What do you like to do in your spare time?"
"hobbies, volunteer work and extracirriculars?"
"How did I choose my schools to apply to?"
"Questions pertaining to why I wanted to be a doctor, my experiences in and around doctors/research."
"when did you know you wanted to be a doctor?"
"volunteering"
"What was the last book you read?"
"What questions do you have? (Asked this at least 5 times)"
"Why did you pick/do you like your undergraduate college?"
"Which extracurricular activity was especially important to you?"
"what happened during your first years at school that affected your grades?"
"What is an ethical challenge that physcians face today?"
"Why not retake the mcat?"
"recent movie you saw and did u like it or not. why?"
"What kind of work do you do?"
"I had mentioned that i thought a large issue was the lack of understanding and communication between healthcare professionals and the public. She asked me how i thought we, as doctors, could bridge that gap so that people could have a realistic image of doctors both as people and as professionals"
"Why do you want to go to Drexel?"
"What do you know about medical ethics?"
"How did I improve my MCAT so much, 5 point increase"
"Why are you interested in Drexel?"
"Why do you want to be an MD?"
"talk about your research"
"Why do you want to pursue medicine?"
"What do you do for fun (from the student)"
"What type of medicine do you want to practice and why"
"elaborate on my research experience"
"What will be your support system on the East Coast?"
"medically-related experiences"
"What experiences have been the most influential?"
"What interested you in Drexel? "
"What are you doing in your year off to keep your brain active?"
"Describe how you would make a patient feel at ease in the short time you have with them."
"What do you do in your spare time?"
"What's with your grades in orgo?"
"What do you think about our current health care system? What are your suggeestions on making it better?"
"Why do you want to come to Drexel? Why do you want to come back to Philly? (I went to U.Penn for undergrad)"
"Student Interviewer: Why do you want to be a doctor?"
"Did you like your undergrad institution? Why did you go there?"
"What do you do for fun? What course did you like least?"
"what is not on your application that you would like us to know about you? "
"Why do you want to become a doctor?"
"Being out of school for a couple years, would i have trouble re-adjusting to the coursework?"
"Tell me about your clinical and volunteer experiences. (Faculty Interviewer)"
"Any research experiences, Any voluntering?"
"What do I see as a problem facing medicine today (Faculty Interviewer)."
"why do you want to go to med school?"
"Would leaving sunny California to come to school in Philadelphia be a real problem for you?"
"What made you decide to become a doctor?"
"Did you have to work to help put yourself though college?"
"Tell me about the research you've done"
"issues in healthcare?"
"Where else are you applying? "
"Tell me about any clinical experiences you've had"
"What do you think is the greatest problem facing modern health care providers?"
"What hobbies do you have?"
"what specialty/type doc will you be"
"Has anyone ever discouraged you about going to med. school or told you it was a bad idea?"
"Were have you traveled?"
"What institutions do you believe are responsible for working to solve the problem of the uninsured?"
"Tell me more about.... (various programs I had participated in)"
"what are your mcat scores (problem with my amcas, they weren't reported)"
"What changes would you like to make in patient care?"
"Tell me about your volunteer experience. What did you learn? "
"How would you fix healthcare"
"Do you see many cultural differences in the hospital where you work? "
"Why is it necessary to raise funds for Breast Cancer?"
"Tell me about your experiences while traveling."
"Have you done any research? Do you have any doctors in your family? (no) do your parents support your decision to go into medicine?(faculty)"
""Tell me about a difficult situation""
"Ethical issues involving end of life issues (Physician Interview)"
"What is your explanation for specific grade/ MCAT score?"
"Was there a class that made you decide to major in --- and ----?"
"Talked about languages"
"What did you do in your lab jobs?"
"where do you see yourself in 10 years"
"What's your motivation to become a doctor?"
"A lot of questions on my experiences. "
"Do you have any questions for me?"
"Describe a situation that really stressed you out and how you coped with it and what the outcome was."
"How did you prepare for the MCAT?"
"your biggest challenge . . . how did you overcome it?"
"How do you deal with stress/ what are your coping mechanisms?"
"I had to clear up some confusion about coursework for a while."
"What are your hobbies? How do you like to spend your free time?"
"Why do you want to become an OB-GYN? "
"Why drexel?"
"What was it like having a doctor as a parent?"
"What do you think about the current situation of rise in medical malpractice insurance?"
"Which field of medicine do you think will be hot in the next few years?"
"What makes you think you can handle medical school"
"when did you realize that you wanted to become a doctor?"
"Hardships overcome?"
"What fields of medicine interest you and why?"
"Specific questions about grades in classes"
"why do you think that you wouldn't get in to md school if not admitted??? how would you justify it to yourself???"
"Why medicine?"
"A hardship you have had in life and how you overcame it."
"What will you do if you dont get into any medical school this year? (I have already been accepted 4 places so I just B.S.ed something)"
"What was a stressful situation you encountered and how did you cope?"
"Faculty interviewer basically asked for clarification on some of my ECs and transcripts."
"What are you doing now during your year off?"
"What motivates you to work hard?"
"What do you do for fun?"
"Would you do research while attending Drexel?"
"How do you feel about moving to the east coast?"
"Why are looking at Drexel?"
"By faculty interviewer: What will you do if you don't get in to medical school this year? "
"What experience solidified your decision to pursue medicine?"
"What volunteer work have you done?"
"What are you doing during year off?"
"Why doctor? Where else did you apply? "
"Why do you like that each class is large?"
"see above"
"Did you have anything that you would like me to convey to the admissions committee about you?"
"What are some reasons you wouldn't choose this school?(asked by the student interviewer)."
"Tell me about your research."
"What other kinds of schools did you apply to and why Drexel/Philly?"
"Tell me about yourself."
"my extra curriculum activities"
"what areas of medicine do u think you're interested in?"
"what do you want to accomplish in your life? "
"What are your hobbies?"
"What is your biggest strength?"
"What will you do if you don't get in to medical school this year?... strengths and weaknesses?..."
"what is a challenge you see in the healthcare system? What other thing should I know about you?"
"What is one challenge you think you will face in medical school?"
"What is the biggest issue in healthcare today?"
"tell me about your interest in medicine and how have your experiences shaped it"
"What does your support system look like?"
"What characteristics are important for a doctor to have? What are some problems you see in healthcare today?"
"What are your greatest strengths/ weaknesses?"
"What would your best friend say that your best and worst qualities are?"
"What part of medical school are you most excited for?"
"Specific questions aimed at interesting experiences I've had"
"How would your best friend describe you"
"Do you have any other questions for me?"
"What did the doctor you shadowed do to fix her problems?"
"What was your most impactful volunteering experience?"
"What qualities are found in a good physician?"
"In your time shadowing, tell me about the patient contact you personally were involved with."
"Where else have you interviewed?"
"What do you think will be the most difficult part of being in medical school?"
"what do you like about your best friend? what do you not like about your best friend?"
"What would you do if you don't get into medical school / can't go into medicine?"
"What made you want to go into medicine?"
"What are your hobbies?"
"What is your plan B? not if you did not get into med school, but if Drexel is no longer has Pittsburgh rotation site."
"Do you have any questions for me? (seriously, he asked me this three times, and we still finished in 20 minutes)."
"What do you like to do in your spare time?"
"What can I tell you about Drexel?"
"Why were you on academic probation"
"Why do you want to come to our school?"
"What would you do if you were not accepted anywhere this year?"
"do you have any questions for me about the school?"
"What will you do if you aren't accepted this year?"
"Questions about my interests and activities on the AMCAS application."
"How did you cope with moving to the US as a teenager?"
"What do you do for fun."
"When were your parents divorced"
"What else should I know?"
"I was only asked two questions."
"Tell me about [x] activity?"
"What is the total population of people in the US?"
"What do I do for fun"
"i don't remember"
"Explain your research that you did in undergraduate? Why Drexel? Why medicine? "
"What would you do if you did not get accepted anywhere this year?"
"Tell me about [issue from personal essay]. How will you cope with any crises that arise from this issue in medical school?"
"Tell me about..."
"Are there any specialties in particular you are interested in? "
"What do you like me to know? (at the end)"
"Tell me about yourself..."
"not sure"
"What field are you interested in and why ?. "
"Imagine you are against abortion, how would you treat a patient requesting an abortion?"
"What do you do now?"
"What do you think about the current state of health care?"
"tell me about this community service project?"
"How many schools did you apply? "
"What is your 2nd choice of career?"
"Where are your family from?"
"What activities do you participate in outside of school?"
"specific clinical and research stuff"
"(Student interview) What are your strengths and weaknesses?"
"Why did you choose a non-science major?"
"This is a long and hard process, are you sure you want to do this?"
"Tell me about research job X. What specifically did you do? Tell me abt the specific lab protocol. Tell me about volunteer experience Y. What specifically did you do? Tell me about your current job. What specifically do you do? Tell me about your experience in Rwanda? (Spent a 4 months there in grad school)"
"What area of medicine would you like to go into?"
"Why medicine and not Pharmacy(I'm a Pharm/Bio double major)? "
"Do you think you have a temper? Are you good with interacting with people? (he ask the question twice)"
"Tell me about your volunteer work. "
"What books have you read lately or are currently reading. "
"How important is it to you to stay in the Northeast region for medical school?"
"Why did you choose your undergrad?"
"Tell me about your activities."
"After that it was strictly conversational directed by my questions...hope that's not bad, he just seemed really quiet."
"What other school have to applied/interviewed at?"
"Student: What would your theme song be, and why? Faculty: How do you handle failure?"
"Do you feel that you're sufficiently prepared to handle med school?"
"Tell me about your job experiences."
"What accomplishment are you most proud of?"
"Whats the weakest point in your application?"
"Why did you wait to apply to med school?"
"Be sure to be able to explain almost every page of your AMCAS."
"what was your favorite class in college?"
"Tell me something you'd change about your personality?"
"your parents are both doctors. how do they feel about you becoming a doctor?"
"Why did you get a low score on your MCAT?"
"Lots of specific questions relating to my AMCAS."
"what field would you like to go into."
"What can you bring to medicine? Then, some specific questions regarding my experiences abroad, etc."
"Ethical questions about abortion and euthanasia"
"what one thing would you change about yourself?"
"tell me about your family?"
"With all the other jobs that you could make more money at, why do you still want to go into medicine? Do you need to go into medicine?"
"explain your low MCAT score."
"Why do you want to be a doctor?"
"What do you enjoy doing in your free time?"
"She didn't ask many questions but she thought Drexel gets the best students from all over the country."
"Why do you want to move to the east coast?"
"You said you had a brother, what does he do? <-- Don't ask me why I was asked this question. I guess she was just interested."
"how would you as a doctor empathize with a patient?"
"What do you do for fun/relaxation?"
"How did you pick medical schools to apply to? How did Drexel fit your criteria?"
"How did you select your majors in college?"
"How do you study? What do you do for fun?"
"Tell me about your research. Do you plan to do research later in your career."
"How do you center yourself?"
"With your limited clinical experience, how do you know medicine is right for you?"
"Tell me anything you would like me to know. "
"What would you do if you couldn't become a physician?"
"what other schools have you applied to?"
"Why Medicine? "
"What has been your most meaningful activity/experience?"
"How did you decide on medicine?"
"What would you do if you didn't get in this cycle?"
"What should I know about you? (Overall it was pretty conversational...)"
"How many siblings do you have? (I have 6, probably why she asked)"
"Tell me about this low score on *MCAT section*"
"Many many questions about primary. Basically to elaborate on your experiences. "
"Is there any moment that stands out in your mind, in your clinical experiences or volunteer work, where you realized that medicine is the career for you?"
"where do you come from/background/family."
"What do you see yourself doing in 10 years?"
"do you like sheryl crow's music?"
"Why is your twin going into public health and you into medicine?"
"what do you know about US healthcare system?"
"US Healthcare issue"
"What's the biggest challenge you have ever faced in your life?"
"See above."
"How do you deal with emergencies?"
"Talk about my research during the previous summer"
"What do you like to do? What do you like to read?"
"What concerns do you have about medical school?"
"What are your impressions of Drexel so far?"
"What was the most difficult experience and the most rewarding experience in you life?"
"Should illegal immigrants have access to health care?"
"What does your research involve?"
"explain why i got some bad grades during college"
"What field of medicine are you interested in and why?"
"What have you gained through your volunteer work?"
"why did i chose this special program"
"any questions for me? (this is after him asking me questions for 5min)... so I spent ~30 asking him questions. "
"Describe such and such experience in your amcas app."
"Talk about your family, etc."
"What do you think of the new law passed in Oregon? Do you know what it is? (I said yes but he sounded like he didn't believe me) Well what is it? What would you do if a patient came to you asking to help him commit suicide?"
"What is so special about you that med school would want you?"
"What are the pros and cons of PPO vs HMO?"
"Any questions for me? "
"Doctor= Tell me about yourself. Then we just talked about stuff that I wanted to talk about."
"Who is going to win the Pittsburg Denver game? (I said Pitt was being disrespected and they were going to put the beat down on Denver.)"
"Why emergency medicine (I said I wanted to practice emergency medicine as a response to another question, what do you see yourself doing with a medical degree)."
"What are you looking for in a medical school?"
"What do you think is one of the most difficult situations doctors face when providing care."
"Why did you decide to do an MPH?"
"Tell me about yourself?"
"Why drexel"
"Tell me about your volunteer experience."
"Tell me more about x activity"
"How did you improve your mcat score?"
"it was very conversational, so we just chatted a lot about my hobbies, goals, background, childhood, etc."
"What challenge(s) could stop you from going to medical school?"
"explain your low grades freshman year"
"is there anything else you would like to talk about"
"tell me about your family"
"how many interviews have you been on?"
"Why was your writing section on the MCAT so bad? You know that's like 25th percentile, right? "
"If you want to make an impact in people's lives why not something like teaching?"
"tell me about your travel expereince!"
"Tell me about your experience in clinical setting that made you decide on medicine."
"Would you choose IFM or PIL?"
"How do you relieve stress?"
"What was an experience that you learned from/gave you new perspective?"
"Healthcare, HMO questions"
"I was asked to explain a decrease in grades during a certain semester."
"what else on your application do you want to discuss? (thank you! how many times do i wish i had been asked this at other interviews!???)"
"Have you been to philli before?"
"What is your reason for wanting to become a doctor?"
"explain your low grade(s)."
"general stuff about jobs i've had and whatnot"
"Is there an area of medicine that you're interested in practicing in?"
"What I thought the AMA was doing right."
"What was one activity/event that you are really proud of."
"Why medicine? Tell me about your research. "
"What do you do for fun? (student interview)"
"tell me about your activities"
"What can you bring to Drexel?"
"How would you deal with the frustrations or negative aspects of being an MD?"
"So did you apply to law schools too and settle for which ever program you are accepted to?"
"What do you do in your spare time?"
"questions for me"
"Tell me about you hobbies. "
"Why my grades suck"
"What is the big issue in medicine?"
"how is the permanent fund dividend in alaska allotted to public institutions like hospitals and schools? definitely specific to alaska."
"why medicine"
"Tell me about this experience ___?"
"What makes you stand out?"
"Why medicine? What influenced you?"
"Tell me about the area that you're from. Do you like it there and why?"
"How do you feel you are suited to medicine? How did you decide on medicine?"
"what are the differences in the US healthcare system and the healthcare system in my country? (a question specific to my application)"
"What are you doing now? (I graduated)"
"Three qualities a physician needs and how you exemplify them."
"What was the experience that made you most want to be a doctor?"
"your strength and weakness."
"Are you interested in working in underserved areas?"
"Why do you want to come to Drexel?"
"What is one quality that doctors should have, that you have?"
"How would I practice under the restrictions of the current healthcare model, and how have my volunteer/shadowing experiences will influence that."
"Describe your volunteer experiences. "
"How would you fix healthcare in the US?"
"how did this volunteer experience affect you"
"What would you do if you didn't get into medical school?"
"the physcian was curious as to my econ background"
"What is the great problem facing healthcare at this time and in the future"
"Where will medicine be in the next 10 years? Where do you see yourself in the next 10 years?"
"favorite science/non-science courses"
"Any questions about Drexel?"
"Is there anything else you want to ask me that hasn't been covered today?"
"Describe the most challenging aspects of your past career."
"What type of medicine do you think you will practice?"
"What's your current work/research about?"
"What do you look for in a medical school? What questions do you have for me?"
"When did you decided that you wanted to become a doctor?"
"Student Interviewer: Talk about some current issues/problems in healthcare, and address why you want to go into medicine given the current situation in healthcare."
"What do you do at your job? Do you like your research?"
"Tell me about your research, animal experimentation."
"do you have any questions for me?"
"What do you find most wrong with healthcare in the US?"
"I have to fill out a feedback sheet to the Admissions Committee, what do you want me to say to them that isn't already in your application?"
"Where do you see yourself in 15-20 years?"
"Would i be interested in the PIL program @ Drexel?"
"Why did you decide to major in Biophysics instead of going for the traditional biology major? (Student Interviewer)"
"Where do you see yourself in 10 years?"
"What am I doing now (Faculty/Student Interviewer). What do I do besides school (Student Interviewer)."
"tell me about what you're doing now."
"When you volunteer at the clinic, was there any experience that made you not want to be a doctor?"
"What questions do you have for me about the school? (repeated at least a dozen times!!)"
"What would be some limitation for doctors in next ten years?"
"where will you be in 10 years?"
"Do you have any questions for me? (student interviewer asked me what I wanted to know about the school several times)."
"Read through my personal statement and asked me some questions stemming from it. "
"Is there anything you would like me to convey to the adcom that isn't in your file?"
"Why Drexel, why the East Coast? (I am from Southern California)"
"what attracts you to Drexel"
"Asked about my research"
"How have your travel experienced effected your decision to become a physician?"
"What are your views on practicing medicine in state of PA (i.e. what do you think about malpractice insurance?)"
"Is any one in your family in medicine? "
"Any questions for me? (like 10 times throughout the day:-))"
"How will you handle medical school and a family?"
"Tell me about yourself."
"How will your experiences working translate to medicine and help you develop into a good physician?"
"How do you handle stress?"
"What do you think about doctors striking?"
"Why is the teenage pregnancy rate higher among unerserved populations?"
"Tell me about your research."
"why do you want to become a doctor? (student interviewer)"
""Why did you choose (your major)""
"Typical what I do for fun / relaxation questions (Student Interview)"
"Asked about research, and what I thought was the biggest problem facing medicine today."
"Have you done any research?"
"Talked about my MCATs and research"
"tell me about your research"
"What is your primary extracurricular activity?"
"Tell me about study abroad experience?"
"Outside interests?"
"You obviously went to an amazing school, but got a lower GPA relative to most med school applicants -- how do you feel about that?"
"Tell me about X activity. "
"hobbies? why did you pick your major?"
"What are some problems with HMOs, and how can we solve those problems?"
"General questions about transcripts, volunteer work, current job. "
"What do you do in your spare time (since you work 8-5)? What do your parents do? Do you have anything else to say or any questions? "
"tell me some more about your clinical experiences..."
"General questions about EC's and Clinical work."
"Why do want to major in liberal arts and be a doctor?"
"What was your favorite class"
"why drexel? how do u feel about moving to the east coast?"
"What do you do for fun?"
"What needs to be done to improve our healthcare system."
"why drexel???? do you have any questions for me???"
"Why were your grades so bad in college?"
"Questions about research and volunteer activities."
"What are you doing now at you job (I am taking a year off)?"
"What would you like me to tell the admissions staff when I present you to them for voting?"
"Student interviewer: What do you do outside of science??"
"Why were you a nutrition major?"
"Any questions?"
"Who are you?"
"What class did you enjoy the most?"
"What volunteer work have you done?"
"Why Drexel?"
"What can you tell me about in situ hybridization?"
"What kind of a doctor do you want to be? Why Drexel? Comment on the business environment of medicine today."
"Explain your research?"
"Do you know what area you would like to specialize in?"
"What is one struggle you see yourself facing in medicine? "
"What are your concerns about going into med. school/being a physician?"
"hobbies?"
"Would you want to continue your interest in tutoring/educating?"
"How will you incorporate music into your career as a physician?"
"Do you have any interest in academic medicine, what extracurriculars do you think you will pursue?, what was your favorite course in college"
"Tell me what I can say on your behalf to the Admissions Committee."
"examples of challenging situations that I had to overcome."
"describe your life outside of the classroom. "
"What does your family think about you leaving the west coast to come here?"
"What kind of a doctor do you want to be? What do you think your job as a doctor will be like (ie. daily routine)? "
"Asked me a question about my hobby"
"what will be your greatest challenge at Drexel"
"Who is your best friend and what would they tell me are your strengths and weaknesses?"
"How would your best friend describe you?"
"Is there anything on your app that I haven’t mentioned that you want me to ask you about"
"Would you zone out during a lecture on business within medicine? (my interviewer taught that module)"
"How do you characterize success?"
"Out of all your experiences, which taught you the most about yourself?"
"what brought you here today"
"Would you attend a business and healthcare course if it was optional? (he revealed that he taught the class after I responded)."
"How do non-science (humanities) classes relate to being a good physician"
"Very standard"
"Why are you here?"
"What are the most important qualities of a good physician?"
"How would friend describe you"
"How do you feel about the current healthcare situation?"
"Scenario: You are on your way to visit one of your best friends, who is on their deathbed in the hospital. On the way, you hear the best joke you've ever heard in your lifetime. When you get to the hospital your friend is lying in a bed surrounded by other friends and family and nearing death. Do you tell your friend the joke?"
"What do you think of the Affordable Care Act? (interestingly enough, didn't ask "why Drexel?")"
"N/A"
"The questions were all designed to be open ended to spur on further conversation. Consequently, all of the questions led to interesting tangential topics of discussion which were very interesting. The conversation was very enjoyable and very low stress."
"If you were given a certain amount of money, what would you do with it?"
"On euthanasia"
"What does your sisters do?"
"Do you have any questions for me (the third time he asked)."
"So, what kind of food do you and your family like to eat? (In reference to my mixed racial upbringing.)"
"What do you think about health care economics?"
"How did you feel about seeing the anatomy lab?"
"Tell me more about your experience that you mentioned in your personal statement."
"What is your mother doing?"
"Which aspect of your application do you believe will help you to be a good physician?"
"discuss transitioning from high school into undergraduate..."
"What is your best friend like?"
"WHat books are you reading now?"
"Why do you think the school system here doesn't encourage learning a second language?"
"What do you like to cook (I said I love cooking and that is what I do for fun)"
"Have you heard of the Graf Spee?"
"Have you heard of Yellow? (an techno group- i mentioned that i liked electronic music)"
"Who is a role model for your medical goals?"
"What did you write about in your essay?"
"How can I fit so much into my schedule"
"healthcare reform... since he teaches business and policies at the med school."
"Not really anything, it was very conversational."
"The questions were pretty standard, but it was literally a conversation the entire time."
"I see you've been involved extensively in community service. What makes you like it so much?"
"The first of these. The interviewer said outright that it was meant to demonstrate my response to pressure."
"If you had a looking glass, what do you see yourself doing 10 years after you graduate from medical school?"
"Do you have any question to me? What do you like to know about the school?"
"the student asked me 3 words to describe me"
"Why MD, not phd ?."
"Are you a follower or leader? Explain. Why are both of those characteristics necessary in a good physician?"
"How would you define a "medical professional"?"
"What do you think is the weakest part of your application?"
"Current state of health care."
"none in particular"
"Are you sure this is what you want to do?"
"Do you know what is involve in this process?"
"What would you do if you don't get into medical schools?"
"What would you do if your patient needs a blood transfusion and refuses?"
"tell me something about yourself i cant get from your amcas"
"It was a very conversational interview...for the most part, I was allowed to drive the conversation and talk about what I wanted to talk about."
"I mentioned that my current job was incredibly challenging and she asked me why and how and we had a really interesting discussion about the nature of medicine today. "
"A question about medical practice and ethics."
"what would you do if you don't get into any program in U.S.A. Would you accept a program out of the country to become a doctor?"
"If you were President Obama, how would you handle the healthcare crisis? "
"what do you do to relax? both interviewer asked"
"Are you ready for what you have to give up for a career in medicine?"
"How many students in your school are premed?"
"Question 1... he just wouldn't let up. I started by mentioning I would talk with my kids about the work "daddy has to do" and that is why he can't be around all the time.. but that wasn't enough for him. He said, "They still don't appreciate it, even though they understand..." I was stuck, and then he told me this is his life."
"Are you ready to pay the price? Your kids are not going to see you, you will miss great part of their life, are you really sure you want to go through with this? And he went on and on saying how his kids still judge him for been missing in their life."
"None really. My interviewer actually told me a lot about the school, especially the curriculum. Otherwise conversational."
"Nothing really. Just your standard stuff."
"none, i was only asked 2!!! grrr"
"Asked by the student interviewer: ''If you had to pick a theme song to represent you, what would it be and why?''"
"Have you ever cheeted"
"All of the questions were directed towards my application except a)Why do you want to be a doctor? b)Why Drexel? c) If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go?"
"Given unlimited time and money what would you do to better the world?"
"Nothing"
"tell me something about yourself that's not on your application"
"If there is a fairy god mother who will give you a list of wishes, what would be your list?"
"Have you ever been in a situation where you observed cheating and how did you handle it? ( asked by the student interviewer)"
"Tell me something you'd change about your personality?"
"why should i help you get into drexel med?"
"No real interesting questions...there just wasn't enough time! With only 30 minutes it was a real no-nonsense interview."
"Describe an example of how you work well in groups."
"What are your hopes and dreams?"
"what skills do you have that you can bring to medicine?"
"Describe a problem I had overcome."
"Tell me about your best friend"
"What are some of the weaknesses of Drexel?"
"nothing terribly interesting was asked"
"pretty standard questions"
"Do you need to become a physician?"
"why Drexel and not Temple?"
"Tell me why you would fit in with the students here, and what was one important thing you've learned that will help you when you're a doctor. "
"What makes you unique?"
"How do you think living in LA affected your studies or career goals? What problems do you think you would have adjusting to living on the east coast?"
"None."
"Nothing exciting. He flipped through my file and asked me to talk about a few things."
"If we were able to cure all disease, would this have a positive or negative impact on the human race (and why)?"
"What are you not looking forward to as a doctor?"
"What made you change your mind about going into medicine?"
"Nothing really interesting.. a lot about alternative career paths if medicine doesn't work out... think that's a standard question though"
"Nothing interesting. It was about a 10 minute interview. He asked me to tell him about myself and then interrupted me to ask if I thought I could handle medical school."
"By Dean of Admissions after learning about my baby-signing experience, 'Have you ever seen Meet the Fockers?' She's a really cool down to earth woman, easy to relate to, but is also highly qualified and accels at her job."
"What are some issues facing medicine? (It was interesting because it was asked a few times consecutively, so I really had to reflect on the answers I gave)"
"None of the questions were particularly difficult or interesting. I'm pretty sure that applicants always hear that a school's interviews are conversational but the Drexel interviews were just that. Seriously."
"Are you sure you want to go into medicine? no really, are you sure? you really want to be a doctor?"
"If you had all the money and time in the world, what would you do?"
"What do you do to center yourself?"
"With your limited clinical exposure, how do you know medicine is right for you?"
"Mostly just the standard questions."
"You gave me a whole bunch of reasons, but what is single most important reason why you want to go into medicine?"
"If I had a fairy-godmother to grant me my perfect life in the future I would ask for..."
"What other schools have you applied to?"
"it was basically a get to know you conversation. can't remember any specific questions"
"Anything you would like to explain in this file?"
"Why did you chose 7 year vs. 8 year? (I applied to the Villanova/Drexel combined program)"
"What ethical questions do you think doctors face? How would you deal with that?"
"I heard that someone was asked ''how many uninsured patients are there in the US and how would you go about addressing this problem?''"
"What is the most important thing people need to prevent disease? (I said nutrition, the answer is clean water.)"
"Would you treat an illegal alien? Would you if it was unlawful to do so?"
"If you had ten million dollars, how would you change healthcare?"
"They were all pretty basic get to know you and why you want to go here questions. i actually enjoyed the interviews."
"Is research important to medicine?"
"nothing much. i don't remember."
"What is simple (after a discussion about my complex background)?"
"What is your favorite type of wine?"
"Do you like Sheryl Crow's music?"
"How did my sister's cerebral palsy affect my family's life and my decision to become a doctor? "
"How would you react if you were the physician who had to treat the victims of the amish school shooting?"
"What do you think of the US Healthcare system"
"My interviewer did not ask specific questions. She just told me to talk about my family, background, ECs, why I picked my undergrad school, and why choose medicine."
"Why did you stop pursuing a career in music for medicine?"
"None really. "
"So what brings you here (in reference to choosing medicine and Drexel)?"
"What do you think of Drexel Med?"
"How would I handle a situation where a patient--such as an illegal immigrant-- arrived needing help, but the law forbad providing it..."
"If I knew about a George Harrison song called "wa-wa""
"What do you think Freud got right and what did he get wrong? (In relation to an independent study I did on Freud)."
"If I were not going into medicine, what would I do instead?"
"What do you want to do with medicine"
"I got asked a lot about my non-traditional path to med school."
"What do you think about the immigration controversy? Do you think illegal immigrants should be able to get health care in this country?"
"What was the reaction of people around you when they found out you were applying to medical school?"
"why medicine?"
"In 20-30 years tell me what you picture your typical day to be like, start with waking up, breakfast etc."
"fairly standard questions"
"What is the biggest problem facing health care today?"
"Do you do bharat natayam dancing?"
"Nothing... the interviewer asked me only 2 basic questions, problems in healthcare, and why I thought I was waitlisted last year."
"So, I see you've lived in the UK for most of your life. Which healthcare system is better?"
"All typical questions"
""There's a lot of diversity here, which should interest you since you've studied cannibalism a lot." "..Wha?" "[rereads my file] Oh. Never mind. I was way off.""
"woud your family support you if you did not want to study medicine? (Both of my parents and two of my grandparents are physicians)"
"What was it like growing up as a latchkey kid?"
"What is so special about you that med school would want you?"
"What would you change about the health care system?"
"What are you passionate about?"
"All the questions were pretty basic, about items on my application and my ideal career. The student interviewer asked me a lot about what I want in a medical school and sold me on Drexel."
"Mostly questions about grades, why medicine, when did you come to that conclusion, what are your strengths, and is there anything else you'd like to add?"
"You took the MCAT three times. That's a lot of times to take an exam. (Not a question but this prompted a response). "
"How do you know the [educational organization I lead] was successful?"
"What do you think one of the most difficult situations doctors face when providing care?"
"Tell me about yourself...."
"what kind of master's program are you in?"
"With all of the new information being discovered in the human genome project, what do you think will be the next big discovery?"
"Whats your wish list?"
"None too off the wall. We talked about our separate experiences visiting Argentina."
"Because you are a x major, why not enter x field?"
"What are you doing right now?"
"Where did you get that watch?"
"not too intersting...but what I did to improve my mcat score"
"Tell me about your family and friends"
"tell me about your friends"
"Where do you see yourself in 10 years?"
"she asked me why I wanted to go into medicine more than once, it was basically the same question, different wording."
"what were the best and worst things to ever happen to you?"
"which track (PIL or IFM) would you be interested in?"
"overall they were the basic questions, but framed in unique ways. instead of "why medicine" it was "why not nursing?" "
"Nothing really unusual"
"Did your parents meet when they were doing their residencies? I know...wtf."
"Describe a friends of yours?"
"Just standard questions about background"
"Tell me about your favorite Science Fiction book."
"What's with your MCAT verbal score? Did you have trouble finishing the passages?"
"Among all your extracurricular activities, which one would you re-do."
"Why the career change?"
"I wasn't really asked anything interesting. She said, "so, I guess psychology is your thing?""
"What was your "a-ha" class?"
"If you were treating a patient who disagreed with your course of action, what would you do?"
"every question was standard, straight out of the book."
"Is there a story behind the C you received your last semester? (I was happy they asked this b/c I had a chance to explain)"
"What is my biggest shortcoming"
"I noticed you listed your marriage as an activity on your application - do you care to explain that?"
"a lot of personal questions about my family"
"hmm nothing too interesting"
"If there was some decree that said you absolutely could not practice medicine anywhere, what would you do instead?"
"I was asked about a recent Supreme Court case concerning euthanasia. "
"What did I see as the shortcomings of my application."
"Tell me about your best friend (asked by student interviewer)"
"What are my thoughts of professionlism in medicine, and how would I exemplify them."
"What was your most challenging course in college? (interesting because that depends on how you define "challenging")"
"Nothing really. It was just a conversation . Tell me about yourself...your family...your activities..."
"The usual healthcare stuff."
"Nothing really stuck out as unusual, it was very conversational she just wanted to get to know me."
"Where do you see the patient physician relationship? Give me an example of a doctor who you think is good at relating to patients and why."
"what lessons did you learn from traveling abroad?"
"Most pressing problem facing medicine."
"If you had a 2-seat car and drove by a dying woman, your best friend, and the love of your life, who would you pick up and why?"
"about my research"
"What is the population of the cities I previously lived in ?"
"All were pretty standard questions. My interviewer was a faculty member who wasn't an MD and didn't ask any questions about med ethics or problems in health care (i.e. PA's med liability crisis)"
"Nothing really interesting, just the standard fare of personal questions."
"Why do you want to become a doctor?"
"What do you think is different between inner-city and rural hospitals?"
"Was Jane Austen a feminist?"
"i'm a beginner skier, why size skiis should i buy? (i used to ski professionally, so i think they were just getting me to talk)"
"He didn't really ask me any questions."
"he barely asked me any questions"
"None really"
"Why Drexel?"
"What is the most important aspect of a medical school to you."
"How do you like living where you live? (I'm from a very rural area)"
"Routine q's."
"what are the differences in the US healthcare system and the healthcare system in my country? (a question specific to my application)"
"What is an ethical challenge physicians face today?"
"My interviewer had carefully read my application and asked a lot of questions about classes i had taken, including an essay-writing course. She asked what my favorite piece of writing had been and why."
"I wasn't asked anything I thought was "interesting""
"Was there a non-science course you had that you enjoyed?"
"About my graduate research."
"Nothing really. The questions were really basic."
"What characteristic of your best friend makes you friends?"
"How would you fix healthcare in the US?"
"If I felt it was harder working with children or adults as patients"
"A question abou9t my volunteer experiences."
"Sometimes a positive quality turns into a negative one, has this effected you ever?"
"what quality is most important to me in selecting a medical school?"
"nothing, all boring stuff"
"the student interviewer asked "if i were to bump into you and your friend and pull him/her aside ask them to name one thing they like about you and one thing they don't, what would they be?""
"What made you decide you wanted to go into medicine?"
"Did your study abroad change your worldview? What criticisms of the US did you develop while living abroad?"
"None in particular. All but one were specific to my experiences listed in my application. "
"What do you think of the ethical challenges to your current work and research? (I work on providing cash incentives to schizophrenics to encourage them to quit smoking cigarettes.)"
"How to you deal with stress?"
"No interesting questions."
"From my student interviewer - "Why are manholes round?". She told me there was no real answer to the question, she was just curious how I would reason the answer."
"Tell me about your best friend."
"none really, all pretty standard"
"no interesting questions"
"Based on your background in political science, who is going to win the Democratic Nomination? I said Kerry and turned out to be right."
"Why do you want to go into medicine and how do you think you will make a positive contribution to medicine?"
"If you could pick one issue in healthcare today and have it solved overnight, which one would you pick."
"why didnt i go to medical school immediately following college?"
"The most interesting question I was asked was about how I would make the transition to medical school. (asked by my student interviewer)"
"Why should Drexel accept you? "
"No question was really interesting. I think that the questions that I asked my faculty interviewer were more interesting than the ones he asked me."
"The interviewer asked, what was the weirdest question you've been asked in other interviews??? (He liked to see if anyone had a horror story)"
"All of the questions are your expected, general ones you'd expect at most interviews."
"No interesting questions, most were very standard questions."
"What are some of the best places to eat in Fort Lauderdale?"
"There were no questions that pertained to my applciation. They were all general questions"
"tell me about yourself?"
"Where do you see yourself fitting into medicine? "
"Assuming that 20 years from now all of the malpractice and managed care/medicare problems are solved, what do you think will be the most pressing issue in healthcare? "
"Have you considered how chosing a career in medicine will affect you financially?"
"None really, very conversational"
"Nothing out of the ordinary. Very canned questions."
"Nothing too interesting. The student gilled me a bit on health care and the price of medications. He jumped from subject to subject. It felt artificial - not like the natural flow of a conversation."
"Are you aware of the recent changes at the university? All of this info is on their site how it has changed, affiliates...."
"Besides HMOs, malpractice insurance, health care system etc. what do you see has the biggest challenge facing medicine? "
"The faculty interviewers questions were all personal in nature, intended to examine specific aspects of my application. The most interesting being what I would do for my community if I became a physician. The student interview was odd, my interviewer appeared quite shy, and I asked most of the question."
"As a physician, how would your prevent yourself from getting sued?"
"Assuming the insurance issue is cleared up in the upcoming years, what do you see as the most challenging issue in the field of medicine?"
"What do you think of racial diversity in the workplace and educational system?"
"What qualities do you think define a physician? Watch out, my interviewer wrote down everything I said. The follow up question I did no expect.."
"hardly any questions, mostly just discussion"
"If you weren't going to medical school, what career would your pursue."
"nothing really interesting"
"tell me about yourself -- very broad question that allowed me to pretty much tell them anything i want them to know."
"Nothing was interesting or out of the ordinary. Every question was completely run-of-the-mill."
"The interview was just a conversation geared to get to know you better. All questions related to my application and life experiences."
"If, for some reason, you didn't get into medical school, what other profession would you like to pursue?"
"Something about urban public hospitals losing money like crazy. "
"What do you think will be the greatest challenge that your generation of doctors will face?"
"Tell me what recipes you published in your column? (I wrote for a paper... my interviewer *really* read my application!)"
"Why do you suppose the amount of time a patient spends with a doctor is so brief...because of the doctor or the hospital?"
"How do you feel about the big rat? (nurses striking outside, 15 foot inflated rat sitting outside)"
"None were interesting"
"Do you think undocumented immigrants deserve medical treatment while in the United States?"
"nothing really"
"Given the following scenario: I am a physician and I have two patients, but only enough time to dedicate to one. The first patient listens to everything I recommend and follows instructions about meds perfectly. The second patient never listens to my recommendations and refuses to take meds. Keeping in mind the time constraint, how do I spend my time treating the patients? "
"How do you like the weather in Pennsylvania? (I'm from California) "
"No question I got was particularly interesting, but the overall experience was really nice. My faculty interviewer was very chill, and it was more like a conversation than an actual interview. He asked me just the standard questions really, such as "Why do you want to be a physician," "Why Drexel," etc. "
"She asked if I could remember the MCAT verbal prompt. I scored well and she said most people cannot remember the question."
"What is your biggest obstacle?"
"Theoretically, if Drexel were to make you an offer, how enthusiastic would you be?"
"What do you look for in a medical school? What is a problem you'll face in healthcare. What do you do on your free time. What are you currently doing at your job."
"When mentioning to practicing physicians that you are applying to medical school what is their response?"
"What do you think of the East Coast (i'm from the west)? Why Drexel? What experiences made you want to pursue medicine? Basically, getting-to-know-you type questions."
"None were particularly interesting. I was asked by the student what I would be for Haloween."
"Parlez-vous Francais?(I had listed french as a language that I spoke fluently)"
"Have you had any failures or academic disappointments?"
"About my religion"
"how would a friend describe you"
"What's 2 times 2? (My student interviewer needed to assess my "problem-solving skills")"
"If you had one year to do anything you wanted, what would you do?"
"nothing too out of the ordinary"
"Tell me about your research?"
"What will be a hard thing you will have to face as a doctor?"
"Why do you want to go into clinical medicine?"
"How do you feel about needle exchange programs? (and "why are manhole covers circular?")"
"I was asked to give an in depth explanation of a particular extracurricular activity that I had. This interviewer was interested in the event and wanted to know more about it. "
"Nothing specific. Just an honest attempt to get to know me and the decision making process I used in getting to this point."
"If you were to make an "ideal" medical school, what characteristics would it have?"
"Nothing very interesting..."
"What makes you want to come to Philadelphia?"
"What kind of books do you like to read?"
"what would you want on your epitaph?"
"none really...very informal...just wanted to know who I was "
"None really. Very standard questions like, "How was it having a physician as a father" and "what are you most passionate about." The student interview asks questions off a sheet of paper and the "what are you most passionate about" questions is one of them."
"You are a high school applicant applying for a BA/MD program. How do people respond when they find out you have decided to physician at the age of 17?"
"What was your favorite class"
"Why do you think infant mortality is so high in Phili?"
"very standard questions. interviewer just wanted to get to know me"
"-None-"
"Do you anticipate having difficulty with the coursework in medical school or do you feel prepared? (student interviewer)"
"This is what the typical person would do. Now here is what you did. Please explain this to me."
"nothing interesting...the faculty interviewer was not very nice...she kept asking why i had scored so low on the verbal part of the mcat."
"What was the biggest challege you've faced so far (seems to be a Drexel required question)"
"none"
" "
"I wasn't even asked questions by the faculty interviewer really. We just talked about him for most of the interview and I asked the questions. The student interviewer asked the standard questions like why medicine and what do you do as a hobby. Here's the thing, I thought my faculty interview went bad because we spent the entire time talking about his life and acomplishments. He was super friendly, but I didn't know what he could possibly write on my evaluation because I never really got asked questions. But I got acepted. Contrast this with Albany's interview in which I prepared so much for ethics questions and talked rather well in my opinion for a total of 3hrs over two interviews only to get put on the alternate list. The interview process in general seems a little screwy to me."
"just basic stuff really"
"What was your most interesting class? What was your most challenging class?"
"nothing too interesting, pretty standard stuff."
"What would you do if you found out that your parent had HD? (I would have a 50% chance of getting the disease, and the interviewer wanted to know if I would get genetic testing to find out if I had the disease)."
"Why haven't you considered military service to pay for med school?"
"What would I do if a patient refused a life-saving treatment?"
"By the student: What's your favorite vodka? By the doctor: Are you sure you don't want to be a lawyer instead? (apparently I was pretty talkative)"
"How do you think research will help you as a doctor?"
"What was your favorite class in college?"
"What does a medical scientist do?"
"Why are malpractice insurance premiums so expensive in PA?"
"nothing unusual, "how would your friends describe you", "what obstacles do you expect as a physician""
"What was your biggest obstacle in life?"
"What is the one thing I should mention to the committee when I present your file?"
"How has Hinduism impaceted your decision to enter medicine? "
"A challenge I have encountered and how I overcame it."
"How will your background in research help you as a physician? "
"Why Philadelphia?"
"What would you write on your tombstone?"
"They were all really straight forward...general questions based on my application."
"The student interviewer asked me to compare the health care system before an after the Soviet Union broke up (I am originally from there). "
"What was the last book you read?"
"What future obstacles do you see for the field of medicine?"
"How I felt about the rising cost of malpractice insurance premiums?"
"Given the current situation with HMOs, why do you still want to go into medicine?"
"All pretty typical."
"all standard questions"
"Why did your recommender say this (something)?"
"What would like written on your epitah?"
"What is the one thing you'd want me to say to the admissions committee on your behalf?"
"i didn't think that any of the questions i was asked were particularly interesting."
"Describe your life growing up."
"pretty standard fare"
"What is your favorite restaurant in Philadelphia?"
"Who is Alice Coltrane?"
"What is the thing that you regret most in your life?"
"Nothing interesting, we just talked about my extra-curriculars. I was asked if this interview was my first and since it wasn't, where else I had interviewed."
"besides HMOs what is the next big thing facing the medical community"
"what am i most proud of?"
"Tell me more about your project?"
"How do you intend to provide quality care in an HMO environment (or something along that line)."
"What do you think is a problem in the field of medicine in general?"
"Do you think we should teach business in medical school? Would you take the class/be interested? (personally not that familiar with business?)"
"What do you know about (complex medical term I don't remember). Said I don't know but hope to learn about it in the future."
"walk me through some of your poor grades"
"What would be your greatest challenge at Drexel?"
"What makes an excellent doctor excellent?"
"What are some challenges that healthcare faces today?"
"What do you think your greatest challenge will be here"
"What is the biggest problem facing the healthcare system today?"
"Fill in the blank: "I am happiest when ____""
"What is the best quality of a physician"
"None, straight forward questioning."
"How does the advancement of technology help dermatology?"
"None of the questions were particularly difficult"
"How do you feel about the current healthcare situation?"
"Judging by your GPA you are a strong student, but why is this not show in your MCAT score?"
"What was the hardest part about being a burn victim?"
""So, you don't have much clinical experience?" because I don't have much listed as so on the application. I addressed the point (I do consider it a weakness of my application)- it overlapped with volunteer."
"I don't understand why you are so interested in substance abuse. Was someone in your family incarcerated"
"Where do you see yourself 20 years from now?"
"None were too difficult. What are some of the conflicts you think doctors face, what are some things that would no longer be a problem?"
"A specific case on abortion- if a woman came up to you and said she was going to self abort if you didn't perform an abortion, what would you do?"
"Convince me that you can handle medical school."
"Why were you on academic probation"
"Why you?"
"If I were to present the committee your file, what should I say about you?"
"What would you do if you were not accepted anywhere this year?"
"No question was too difficult, it was low stress."
"Why do you specifically like Drexel?"
"What challenges do you see yourself facing in 10 years?"
"What questions do you have for me? (this was most of the interview)"
"after I said that my shadowing helped me learn about the importance of patient-doctor relationship she asked for specific examples... took me a while to come up with an answer."
"The student interviewer liked to ask real interview question despite lacking of experience and grilled me over if I am capable of studying for long periods of time."
"What else should I know? -the interviewer asked me this like 20 times...theres not much to say after that..."
"My essay question: Give an example of when you broke the rules? What was the result?"
"What other schools have I interviewed at"
"healthcare reform"
"What do you think should be done about health care in this country?"
"The ethical dilemma essay prompt you will get at the interview. There are 3 different questions you can receive, and you have about 1/2 a page of unlined paper to write your essay on. It was a little difficult not so much to think of something, but people who finished quickly were surprisingly rudely loud, making it hard to think."
"Again, the first question, mostly because it was unexpected. "
"What if you don't get to do what you plan to do? Lots of times people have dreams of what they want to do and cannot do it. How will you deal with the realities associated with your career goals? "
"(relating to research experience) What was point of the research?"
"probably that one"
"what else can you tell me about yourself? (the faculty interviewer asked me this over and over again)"
"Nothing really. "
"How are you going to balance family?"
"How would you define a "medical professional"?"
"What would you do to fix the current state of health care as a physician?"
"none specifically"
"What would you do if you decided this is not what you want to do in the middle of the medical school?"
"Which school would you choose?Penn, Temple Or Drexel? "
"Who inspire to this path and how?"
"What are your greatest weaknesses? What are your greatest strengths?"
"none, it was very conversational"
"Tell me about this bad grade. (Had one C on my transcript)."
"He (faculty) seemed very concerned that I haven't had biochem. He stressed that there is very little time for "catching up" in the med school curriculum."
"Why did your physics grade dip?"
"what was the most important medical influence you had in your life?"
"This is off the record, but tell me how you plan to pay for med school when you still have grad school loans? Tell me about research job X. What specifically did you do? Tell me abt the specific lab protocol. (This was my first job after graduation so it was difficult to remember the specifics of the protocol we used)"
"I'm a non-trad applicant. They asked me what would keep me in medical school rather than moving on to another field, as I had done before."
"[[sprinkled throughout the interview]] Where else did you apply? Where else do you have interviews lined up? In what other cities did you apply to medical schools? Where ideally would you like to be next year? Don't you ever want to leave Philadelphia? (when I said no) Why don't you want to go to Penn? Have you considered Jefferson? I'm sure you applied to Temple and Penn State, too, right?"
"Question 1"
"Same as most interesting. this topic took about half of the interview."
"None really. It was mostly conversational. I guess I wasn't expecting to be grilled about a particular score. "
"The questions were all fairly intense- much more so than I had expected"
"None. Just questions about me and I know a good bit about that subject."
"tell me about yourself"
"What are some of your concerns about practicing medicine? In regard to my background in research: ''why do you feel you are more suited for a career in clinical medicine as opposed to research?''"
"What most contributed to your ethics"
"Name three of your best qualities? For some reason I drew a blank and stared into space for a long time :)"
"Why did you take the MCAT twice?"
"Why didn't you apply to medical school directly from undergrad?"
"Explain your GPA (it shocked me because I realized that the faculty interviewer is reading the wrong file of the other student who will be interviewed half hour after me)"
"pretty standard stuff--what's the biggest problem facing healthcare, etc."
"Tell me something you'd change about your personality?"
"Why Drexel? This was not made easier by their presentation of the school which really did nothing to distinguish the school from anywhere else."
"Why is there such a large disparity between your GPA and your MCAT scores?"
"Why did you get a C in gym?"
"What would you do if you couldn't help a patient? what do you think your role would be?"
"How would you deal with a given ethical or moral decision? (kinda talked myself into a corner on that one)"
"Why medicine."
"Having to explain a few Bs on my transcript... I wasn't expecting that."
"what are your academic weaknesses?"
"With all the negative aspects of medicine, why do you still want to go into medicine?"
"Y D not T?"
"Nothing really too difficult. Tell me about yourself, why not become an RN like your mother? "
"What makes you unique? (The student interviewer wanted to know unique qualities that he could write on his evaluation of me)"
"What leadership experiences do you have?"
"Nothing difficult."
"What would be one thing on your application that an admissions committe could see as something to not accept you?"
"Would you ever recieve gifts from a patient/ what are you not looking forward to as a doctor?"
"Why did you come back to medicine after a stint in the business world?"
"Do you feel qualified to study medicine?"
"What are some issues facing medicine? (Because it was asked a few times consecutively)"
"after going through my file in front of me... ''is there anything in here I haven't asked you about?''"
"If you had all the money and time in the world, what would you do?"
"What area of your application needs most work?"
"Why didn't you continue to pursue more clinical experience?"
"Again, nothing out of the ordinary."
"none The student asked three ethical-like questions but he was super nice and got really excited (in a good way) about my answers. "
"Why should we accept you?"
"Explain you're MCAT score"
"What do you see yourself doing in 10 years? What specific specialty?"
"None, really. "
"What was going on in your life that caused you to perform poorly during your sophomore year and how did you overcome these challenges?"
"Why does Philadelphia have such a high rate of infectious diseases?"
"None were difficult"
"What should be done about the high number of uninsured Americans?"
"Tell me three positive aspects about yourself."
"So, tell me about the gall bladder, its function and the reasons why you would need to remove it."
"nothing really. both the faculty and studen interviews were very laid back and conversational. The faculty was very interested in my background, while the student asked more typical questions and answered more questions about the school."
"Some questions about my grades during college, I had a few low ones near the beginning."
"Are you qualified to study medicine? If so, why? "
" If I weren't to be a doctor or work in health care, what else might I do?"
"what do you need to work on as a person?"
"Was grilled on the fact that if my parents, who are both physicians, were such positive influences then why am I a non-traditional student who majored in econ. and tried out a diff. career."
"Not really, we ended up talking about rather random stuff like cooking, food, marriage, family, etc. "
"(Faculty Interviewer, ice breaker): Because I haven't read anything about you or your file, what would you like to discuss today?"
"None. The only thing that could make this interview difficult is if you don't know your OWN activities which ofcourse is virtually impossible."
"What do you think is a pressing issue in medicine today?"
"Nothing too difficult.."
"What countries do you think provide better medical service than the U.S.? How so?"
"We had a discussion about my rural upbringing, the fact that neither of my parents went to college, etc."
"Why MD over PhD?"
"all questions were salient and engaging. i enjoyed interview."
"A very specific question about my research that I couldn't remember."
"What do you think about the immigration controversy? Do you think illegal immigrants should be able to get health care in this country?"
"If you didn't have to worry about malpractice insurance and reimbursements, what do you think will be the most difficult challenge you will face as a physician?"
"why medicine?"
"none were difficult, all related to my file"
"when did you make up your mind that medicine was the career for you"
"What do you do when you are stressed? (I'm sure they didn't want to hear the real answer...and yet, I refuse to lie during interviews)"
"Why i chose drexel?"
"Why I thought I was waitlisted and not accepted last year"
"Should we give healthcare to illegal immigrants?"
"what was the greatest struggle you've had to overcome in your life?"
"What field would you enter if you did not become a doctor?"
"You being work at a clinic where the veteran surgeon is conducting an outdated surgery that keeps the patient in the hospital for 2 weeks. You know a procedure that only keeps him at the hospital for two days. What do you do?"
"What are your wishes?"
"What would you change about the health care system?"
"None, all questions were about my application or common interview questions (why drexel?)"
"same, just because I wasn't expecting it."
"My interview was with the dean of admissions, and she asked me a big block of questions all at the beginning and then let me basically give a monologue to answer them all."
"Really nothing too difficult. Questions about me not topics in medicine. Describe your experience in this or that. Very low stress. Really you just discuss yourself."
"Nothing in particular. "
"What are adjectives you would like me to use to describe you to the committee?"
"The same"
"After I told him about myself, he said "Tell me more," so I did...and then he said "What else?" So be prepared to have a one-sided conversation. "
"Nothing was difficult"
"Tell me one reason that sums up why you want to be a doctor."
"How do you balance studying with your other activities?"
"Are you taking any classes? (These were the only questions, the rest was conversation)."
"What do you plan to do with your women studies minor?"
"Nothing was very tough"
"how would your friends describe you - not difficult but the most difficult i guess"
"What makes you really angry?"
"ditto"
"see above"
""did you ever think about re-taking the MCAT?" "
"Why this school, I mean c'mon I'm from Cali, why do you think?"
"Why did you get a C- in [insert class here]? Your bad grades (from 6 years ago) don't match your good MCAT scores (from 6 months ago). Why? Why was your writing section on the MCAT so bad? You know that's like 28th percentile, right? "
"Can you explain why one of your references would rate you with low maturity?"
"We just talked. No hard questions"
"Nothing was difficult, very straightforward"
"Why Physician"
"Why did you do poorly in these classes?"
"The above."
"What do you think about healthcare in the United States? What do you think is the biggest problem in US healthcare today?"
"what makes you uniquely qualified for medicine? (even though this is a common question, i always hate this one!)"
What is one of the specific questions they asked you (question 1)?