How many people interviewed you?
| Response Average | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 0.93 | 15 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| Positively | 10 |
| Negatively | 3 |
| No change | 1 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 2.60 | 15 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 7.87 | 15 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 6.87 | 15 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| In Person | 0 |
| Virtual | 5 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 5 minutes | 0 |
| 10 minutes | 0 |
| 15 minutes | 0 |
| 20 minutes | 0 |
| 25 minutes | 4 |
| 30 minutes | 7 |
| 35 minutes | 1 |
| 40 minutes | 2 |
| 45 minutes | 0 |
| 50 minutes | 0 |
| 55 minutes | 0 |
| 60+ minutes | 0 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| At the school | 3 |
| At a regional location | 0 |
| At another location | 6 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| One-on-one | 13 |
| In a group | 0 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| Open file | 12 |
| Closed file | 0 |
| Response Average | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 0.93 | 15 |
"What should I tell the admissions committee about you?"
"Name a time you encountered a conflict in school/ workplace and what did you do?"
"Tell me about yourself"
"What was a time where you had to give someone bad news and how did you prepare?"
"Why HMSOM?"
"What are your values"
"Why Hackensack?"
"Why medicine?"
"Why medicine? Why Hackensack?"
"Why hackensack"
"Why medicine."
"Why did you do x thing"
"Why New Jersey?"
"What is one ethical or moral dilemma you have come across in your experiences?"
"Tell me about your research"
"What was a time someone told you to do something you knew was wrong and how did you respond?"
"Do you have any regrets?"
"What are important qualities of a physician?"
"Who inspired you while shadowing?"
"tell me about your leadership"
"Tell me a difficult time you had to overcome something and how you handled it."
"Best leadership experience"
"Who is a personal or professional mentor and how have they affected your growth?"
"What is your biggest strength?"
"Tell me about your extracurriculars and leadership"
"do you like the area"
"Tell me about your research experience."
"Why the specialty I am interested in?"
"Do you think doctors in different specialties provide different qualities of care?"
"What was a time where you had to give someone bad news and how did you prepare?"
"What is a challenge facing medicine?"
"What is your favorite quality, and tell me an example of when you exemplified it?"
"Tell me the most influential patient interaction you've had. (bc i was a scribe)"
"Read the website, reviewed general interview questions."
"SDN, review app"
"Watch youtube interviews with the Deans"
"Reviewed application materials and information about the school, mock interviews"
"Google general interview questions and know school"
"Practiced the common interview questions, read the premed playbook"
"PreMed Playbook, school website, reviewing my application"
"Read the website and knew my file"
"Very conversational and passionate interviewer/comittee."
"The interviewer was very friendly, honest, and down to earth."
"It seems like the flipped classroom approach is what tires the students out the most, not the shortened breaks"
"Interview was very conversation and they were eager to answer any questions"
"Great new school, definitely will become more of a big name as it gains recognition"
"Interviewer was engaged, followed up on answers, and made it easy to be conversational."
"Passionate about service and humanism"
"Very kind and engaging"
"The day was extremely organized, and everyone was super nice."
"Very nice professors and faculty. Beautiful facility"
"The interview was more of an interrogation than a conversation."
"The fact that I need to be on zoom on 4 separate occasions."
"The 4 hour long, required, cameras-on, non interactive sales pitch during admissions day. I left with a very bad taste in my mouth. It felt like we were being pitched a business investment rather than being given information about a medical school. Also the current students seemed miserable and didn't even try to hide it. Which is a shame because I toured the school later and the current student had nothing but good things to say."
"Interviewer was 5 minutes late to log on"
"The interviewer was not a part of the school and was not able to answer my questions"
"Still relatively new with a rushed preclinical curriculum so no summer break between first and second year"
"The medical students told us their class is not diverse."
"3year program seems to focused on primary care"
"Program seems great and not everyone shares my interview experience so I may have gotten unlucky"
"There is not reason to have 2 separate parts of the interview on different days. People have jobs. Other schools provide a PowerPoint of information about the school before interview day, and then people can ask clarification questions during the q and a sessions if they desire. We don't have to sit through pre-recorded presentations for 4 hours."
"I only got asked about 4 questions; two of which where about activities on my primary and one was a clarification about my community college. None of the random questions like "what are your values"."
"Enjoy the process"
"Comparable to UT Austin Dell, but in NJ, and potentially greater clinical and networking connections"
"My favorite interview of those I attended. The passion each presenter had for medical education and medicine in general was very clear, even over Zoom."
"Still new school, but I believe it will progress over time, a very collaborative and kind group of faculty and studenta"
"Was a great experience overall :)"
"I loved it! They were nice! The interview was conversational. Overall day was stress-free."
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| Student | 1 |
| Faculty member | 3 |
| Admissions staff | 2 |
| Other | 1 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| Enthusiastic | 6 |
| Neutral | 1 |
| Discouraging | 0 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 7.13 | 15 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| In state | 3 |
| Out of state | 6 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 0-1 hour | 3 |
| 2-3 hours | 0 |
| 4-6 hours | 0 |
| 7+ hours | 2 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| Airplane | 0 |
| Automobile | 4 |
| Train or subway | 0 |
| Other | 1 |
No responses
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| At school facility | 0 |
| With students at the school | 0 |
| Friends or family | 1 |
| Hotel | 1 |
| Home | 2 |
| Other | 0 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| < $100 | 3 |
| $101-$200 | 1 |
| $201-$300 | 1 |
| $301-$400 | 0 |
| $401-$500 | 0 |
| $501+ | 0 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 6.93 | 14 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 7.14 | 14 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 6.71 | 14 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 5.43 | 14 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 7.50 | 14 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 6.43 | 14 |
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