The most commonly asked interview questions at medical schools include inquiries about personal qualities, ethics, accomplishments, aspirations, role models, and fit with the institution's mission. Some respondents mentioned questions related to ethical dilemmas, professionalism, academic integrity, and reasons for choosing dentistry over other healthcare professions. Additionally, references to a nondisclosure or non-disclosure agreement suggest that the interviews may have been in an MMI format with restrictions on sharing specific questions.
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What do you want us to remember about you when you leave here?
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How do you wanna be remembered?
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What do you want to be remembered as
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What qualities do you look for in a sim lab partner?
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Ethics based ones about being an owner/leader
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Who inspires you?
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What do you know about Midwestern University (the entire university NOT just the dental school)
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Who do you most admire?
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What is something you have accomplished that you are proud of?
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What is one time you disagreed with a grade you received and how did you handle it with the professor?
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Tell me about an accomplishment you are proud of?
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How have your experiences shaped who you are today
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Tell us about a teacher, and why they are important to you.
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What do you define as success?
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Do you have any shadowing experience?
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Rank these three attributes in the order of importance they are to you and why
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Would you rather be good and on time or late and perfect?
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How would you describe passion
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Where do you see yourself in 20 years?
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Tell me about yourself
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What is the school's mission and do you fit in it?
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What does it mean to be a professional?
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Tell us about yourself
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Describe what it means to be a consumer of education.
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Why are you a good fit for our school?
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What is an example of professionalism in healthcare settings?
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Ethical situation experience
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Why MWU?
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Out of 3000 applicants why should we choose you?
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What questions do you have for us? (asked like three times)
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Why Midwestern?
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Why WMU
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Three things you would teach your children
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If the state school will call you for interview will you go there? did your state school invite you for interview? how many more schools invited you for interview ..what are they (not exact phrasing)
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Of all the students to choose from for MWU's next class, why you?
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If while you were attending dental school a friend of yours started using drugs, what would you do?
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What would you do if your dear friend was cheating?
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Why dentistry?
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If you saw a friend cheating what would you do?
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If you noticed a friend cheating on an exam, would you turn them in and why?
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Why would you be a good dentist
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If you knew someone was cheating, what would you do? Why is this important in health care career fields?
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What would you do if you caught a classmate was cheating on an exam?
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If your best friend had a gambling problem, would you loan him money? How does gambling affect society?...etc (IL)
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Cheating
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What would you do if you saw a classmate cheating on an exam?
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Why would you be a successful dentist?
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Why do you think you will be a successful dentist?
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Under what circumstances would you steal a piece of bread. (IL campus)
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Why would you be a successful dentist
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What are your strengths and weaknesses
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Tell me 3 best and worst quality of yourself.
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Why should we pick you out of all the other applicants?
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If your friend was here, what would he say is your weakness?
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Why Midwestern?
Explain this grade.
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Why dentistry
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Why should we pick you?
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You are in the middle of an exam and you notice your friend cheating. What do you do?
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Why MWU? Why dentistry?
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Why should we choose you over thousands other applicants?
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Why you over the other 3,000 applicants
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Why should we choose you over the other 3000+ applications we will receive?
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Why should we choose you over the other 3000 applications we received?
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So I hear the you sew? (from application where I mentioned that I can sew)
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Why dentistry? why not other medical professions?
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Why should we choose you over the other 3000 applicants?
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Why you?
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What did you do since graduation?
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If you could meet anyone that is not related to you, dead, or a religious figure, who would it be?
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With your grades, why should you be accepted?
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What is your opinion of the lowering number of us citizens with Health Insurance?
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Why do you want to be a dentist?
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Why dentistry over all other health professions?
Students said most interesting question asked at Midwestern University College of Dental Medicine-Arizona discussed various topics such as personal attributes, conflict resolution, future goals, and ethical scenarios. While the questions were diverse and reflective, there was no standout question mentioned, indicating a standard and comprehensive interview process without any unexpected elements.
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When you retire what do you want to be remembered for?
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3 words to described yourself and which is the most important
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Name a time when you paid attention to detail
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If you were a bakery owner, and your top cake decorator was 15-20 minutes late, how would you assess the situation? What if this persisted, what actions would you take?
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What is something that people might assume about you that is incorrect
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Anything else you want to tell us?
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Tell us about a time when you had to deal with a conflict and how you handled that.
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What was your take on diversity and how has it changed over the years?
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Why do you think this school is a good fit for you?
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"If you were a boss of a succesfull business outside of dentistry, what charactaristics would you look for"
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What do you dislike the most about dentistry?
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Rank attributes
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What are 2 of your future goals?
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How would you tackle a project, what steps would you take? (Then followup: how would you handle someone not doing their part in a group project?)
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Tell me something about you that is not in the application.
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Tell us about your work experience and what you liked and disliked about it.
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What is one event in your life that changed you immensely?
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Tell me about a dilemma you've had.
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Tell me about your work experiences outside of dentistry
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What is the mission statement of the school?
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Tell me about yourself
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Tell me something about yourself not on your resume.
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None really
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It was more of a discussion.
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What are three things you want to teach your children?
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If the state school will invite you will you go there?
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If you could invite any 3 people to dinner, who would they be and why?
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What's something you want to change about yourself? How will you change that during dental school?
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What would you do if you caught your friend cheating?
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If you noticed a friend cheating on an exam, would you turn them in and why?
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What is one thing you regret
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If you could do anything for 24 hours, what would it be?
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If you had 24 hours to do anything you wanted, what would it be?
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What if your best friend told you he was going to lose his house and his family over gambling debt if you didn't loan him some money, would you loan him the money? (IL)
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Why dentistry,
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24 hour question
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If you had 24 hours to do anything, what would you do?
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If you had 24 hours to do whatever you like - cost, travel time, difficulty, safety are not an option - what would you do?
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Why Midwestern specifically? (IL campus)
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If you had 24 hours to do anything with no set backs what would you do
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Uh, none?
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Tell me 3 best and worst quality of yourself.
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What career would you do if you couldn't do dentistry
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Nothing
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What do you do for fun?
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Nothing unexpected. It was pretty much verbatim off of SDN
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Nothing really. Also asked how do I cope with stress?
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Nothing out of the ordinary
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Do you think pre-reqs taken as an undergrad are important to have prior to entering dental school?
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Who is your hero?
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Specific questions from application.
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Who is your hero (non-religious and non-family)?
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What would you do if you caught your best friend cheating?
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Who is your Hero!!
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If you could meet anyone that is not related to you, dead, or a religious figure, who would it be?
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Your Hero's.
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What is the single biggest problems with healthcare in the US today?
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If you could not become a dentist, what would you want to do?
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What is your opinion of the lowering number of us citizens with Health Insurance?
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Nothing out of the normal expected questions.
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What would you do if you don't get into dental school?
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All the questions were really normal... Nothing was that bad.
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Nothing stood out. The questions were standard and straightforward.
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Why dentistry?
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Most applicants prepared for the interview by reviewing their application, practicing mock interviews, researching on SDN, YouTube videos, and the school's website, and practicing commonly asked questions. Many emphasized the importance of being familiar with the school's mission statement, handling ethical situations, and preparing questions to ask during the interview.
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Reviewed my application
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SDN, YouTube videos, mock interviews
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SDN
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Mock interviews and reading online
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Looked at SDN and outlined responses to generic interview questions
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Practiced questions and saying them out loud
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Mock interviews
Practice questions
Reviewed how to handle ethical situations
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I did not prepare by studying questions. I just relaxed
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SDN, Mock interview, Youtube
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SDN, youtube, schools website, mock interview
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Mock interview, practice with friends
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Read the website, ADEA guide, payed attention during the interview day so I had questions
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SDN, website, youtube
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Mock interview with personal dentist
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SDN interview website, website and talking to people from the school
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SDN really helped--make sure to memorize the mission statement!
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SDN. I made a list of all the questions on here and practiced them over and over. Most all of the questions asked will be a derived from the ones listed.
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SDN and talked to a current professor
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SDN, researched the school's mission statement and departments
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SDN, Youtube, ADEA school information, School website
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SDN, mock interviews, researching school
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Research on SDN. Was prepared well from previous student's feedback.
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Sdn and friends
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Website, SDN, reviewed my app
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No prep...should have looked at this interview feedback section on SDN ....a lot more question from directly this site..worded differently
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SDN, practice questions, mock interviews
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I didn't.
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SDN & mock interviews
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SDN interview feedback. Pretty much everything they asked was on this thread.
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SDN, school's website, re-read my admissions essays.
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This site and other interviews.
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I had a few interview before this one so I didn't do much else (IL)
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Chilled on a log for a couple hours
articles www.insidedentistry.com
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SDN interview feedback
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Interview feedback, school website
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SDN Interview Feedback, Website, mock interview with friends.
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We were the first to interview there ever so there was no way to prepare. (IL)
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School website and sdn
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I read all I could online about the school and prepared several questions to ask while at the interview.
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SDN interview feedback.
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Student doctor
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Looked over SDN and the school's website. It's important to just relax
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Reading interview feedback, SDN, studying their website, practice interview questions, preparing my own questions to ask.
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SDN, school website
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SDN, Research school
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This was my 6 or 7th interview.
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Read the MWU website and the SDN interview questions.
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SDN, previous interviews, etc. It was really basic--no surprises.
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SDN, practice interviews
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SDN, mock interview, PMing current students
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Didnt do anything... just be yourself
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SDN, application and school website
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I practiced questions I found on SDN with my spouse.
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Talked to other people who had interviewed, reviewed website, SDN
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SDN Feedback, talked to students, read application.
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SDN, looked for potential questions asked through the internet and talked to people who interviewed there.
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Practice questions, StudentDoctor.net, MWU website
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SDN, friends and other sources
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Internet, this site.
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SDN and visited the webpage
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Nothing. Be yourself.
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SDN, mock interview, AADSAS
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SDN, AADSAS, friends.
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List all the questions from interview feedback and familiarized myself with it. AADSAS. My Secondary Answers.
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SDN, AADSAS, Secondary and MWU website and convincing myself to just relax
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SDN, MWU website, looked over my submitted application materials
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Be passionate about dentistry
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School's website, SDN, and practice at home.
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Read over my application, answered possible questions, and visited the school's website.
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Read my essay, secondary app & the school's website.
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Had two interviews within the month before, so i didn't need much preparation.
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SDN, school's website, reading over shadow journal/application
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I remembered why I wanted to do dentistry and tried to convey that to them as best as possible.
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Know your AADSAS and Secondary application, really well. And keep up with current events (for the essay).
Students said the most difficult questions asked at Midwestern University College of Dental Medicine-Arizona discussed a wide range of topics, including ethical scenarios, diversity challenges, reasons for choosing dentistry, handling criticism, and defining success. The interview format may have been MMI based on responses mentioning nondisclosure agreements, ethical scenarios, and multiple mini interview setups.
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Three pros and three cons of dentisitry.
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3 pros and 3 cons of dentistry
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Name a time when you received criticism and how you handled it.
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Ethics scenarios
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If dentistry did not exist, what career would you choose?
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What does success look like to you
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What is something people think about you but its not true?
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What challenges have I faced with diversity, and how I have handled those challenges?
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Talk about a challenge you faced involving diversity.
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Why we should choose you
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You have a patient that comes in, who is in excruciating pain but they aren't your patient, he is your associates patient who happens to not be working that day. You find that the pain was caused by the other associate. What do you do?
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Ethical scenario
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Ethical scenarios
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An ethical one that didn't make sense and I had to ask for a lot of clarification
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A patient scenario and how I would handle it
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As a consumer of education, how would you provide feedback for the school? After some confusion, it was expanded to become, how would you communicate to a professor if you did not like the teaching style? What if they said you are the only one to bring this up? -- interviewers said there was a lot of confusion with this question and they may throw it out
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They were mostly straight forward questions
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What are some cons of being a dentist?
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Questions about the dilemma
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How do you fit into our mission statement?
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As a consumer of education, what would you do if a class was not being taught to your standard?
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Tell me why we should accept you into our school.
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Ethical
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What is the definition of tenure?
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I didn't have any, but one people I interviewed with was asked if they knew what a tenure was.
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I think I was only asked 3 questions at most
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Nothing difficult. Very conversational.
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What is the most difficult decision you've had to make in your life?
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The most difficult decision you've had to make
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Why we chose you out of 3000 applicant?
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See most interesting.
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How do you define success in dentistry?
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Do you have any questions?
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Why do you think you would be a good dentist?
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If someone were to desrcibe two positive and two negative qualities about you, what would they say?
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What would your friend say are your TWO best traits? What would your friend say are your TWO worst traits?
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If you had 24 hours to do anything you wanted, what would it be?
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If you could go back in your life and change one thing thats withing you power what would it be?...
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None
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Do you have any more questions for me? (3x)
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If you could go back in time and change one thing, what would it be?
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Why Midwestern? (since the school hasnt been built yet and there is no info on it -IL)
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Why you. Very typical question to be asked though. Prepare a thoughtful answer.
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Tell me 3 best and worst quality of yourself.
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None, they just want an honest answer.
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Do you have any more questions? (Asked FOUR separate times, each time after I had asked three or four questions).
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What career would you do if you couldn't do dentistry
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Strength/weakness
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2 weaknesses....
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Not so much the questions as the interviewer (Dr. Pashayan). We didn't exactly click. I would recommend short, pointed answers and confidence in them with this guy. No beating around the bush or small talk. He's down to business. (1 in 3 chance of having him)
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Nothing really. Also asked why dentistry?
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The cheating one
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If your best friend was here, what would he say was your 2 worst characteristics?
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Rank your reasons.
I felt this was somewhat unfair as I don't really see these as separate entities, but a part of one whole. For instance: what good is patient care if you do not do competent work, and vice versa.
They pushed me to rank them anyway.
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What else?
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We receive 3,000 applications per year. What makes you stand out over the other applicants, and what would you contribute to the Midwestern student body?
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At what point in your shadowing did you realize that dentistry was the right profession for you?
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Explain your lower GPA?
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What would you do if you see someone cheating?
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If you could meet anyone that is not related to you, dead, or a religious figure, who would it be?
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Why you?
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Learn the basic questions and you'll do fine.
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As long as you are prepared and be yourself there should be nothing that they can ask you that will throw you off your game.
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What countries boarder France?
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If you could go travel, which country would you want to come?
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What is your opinion of the lowering number of us citizens with Health Insurance?
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Why dentistry?
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What are the 5 countries bordering France?
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It was pretty laid back, so the questions weren't too difficult.
Applicants were overwhelmingly impressed by the state-of-the-art facilities, advanced technology, and friendly faculty and staff at the dental school. They appreciated the engaging tours, the personal interactions with the Dean, and the emphasis on a student-centered environment, which contributed to a positive and welcoming atmosphere during the interview day.
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The tour of the school and using the simodont
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High tech, great clinic and SIM lab
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Nothing
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I really enjoyed the tours of the facilities and the ability to interact with the technology
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State of the art facilities, very organized interview day, friendly faculty/staff
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The activities were very engaging!
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So much cool technology, loved seeing the school it’s super impressive program
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Clinic, faculty, students, new tech, etc
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Everyone was so kind!
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Friendly environment over Zoom call
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2/3 of the interviewers. The campus. Clinically advanced
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The clinics, labs, and technology are awesome. There was a lot of really nice faculty. Teachers seem to genuinely enjoy teaching, and all the students seem really happy. There's some cool research projects as well. The cafeteria food was good.
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Student culture and advanced technology
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Clinic
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The faculty, clinical experience, kindness, and feeling that they wanted people like me
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Nice facilities and technology
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The schools technology
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They started the interview with: "We have no access to your file; no grades, no scores. You've already passed that part, otherwise you wouldn't be here. We want to get to know you and if your personality matches with our school."
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The people and how they care about their students success
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Very organized day, information packet very useful, everyone very nice.
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Technology, school facilities are new, clinical training, certifications
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Technology at the school and the Student Faculty relationship
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The tour of the clinic
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The clinical approach to the program, the support that is given to students in every way possible, the faculty student ratio, the current students that were eager to meet interviewees and answer questions.
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Facilities, curriculum, faculties, location
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All facilities, the faculty, the dean knew everyone's name
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They seemed to be very honest about their program. They addressed the issue of high tuition, but described where the money goes. The clinic wash facilities were very impressive. I was impressed by the structure of the program.
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Student: faculty ratio, number of dental chairs, facilities
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The facilities. They are top notch.
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The campus and lab areas! And that the people were all so friendly!
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The dean personally giving a presentation as well as being able to recall a story from almost every interviewee's personal essay
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The whole interview day specially the tour and Dean's presentation (he really personally looked at your application)
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The amazing facilities and warm welcome from the staff, students, and faculty. I was also surprised regarding the dean's interactions w/ the interviewees -- he was the one to actually give us a tour of the clinic and knew all of us by name by the end of the day.
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School is incredible, all equipment is super nice and high-tech.
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Kind and open interviewers
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The up-to-date technology
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Very relaxed interview. Everyone very willing to answer your questions.
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The dean was involved in almost the entire interview day. He was very friendly and interacted with all the applicants. The clinics are brand new and all the students there are extremely friendly. And, of course, its Glendale, AZ.
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The campus is amazing. The faculty is not tenured. An amazing teaching set up
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The Dean's talk was inspirational and informative. The school really does take a humanistic approach to education and they really do call all the students "Doctor".
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The facilities are amazing; brand new dental clinic with state-of-the-art technology and over 200 chairs! All of the students I talked to love it there. They also have basketball courts, volleyball courts, etc. all over campus.
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Everything
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Suburban-type campus, the buildings are all new, state of the art equipment, humanistic approach to dentistry, open door policy, the fact that it has more chairs available than the number of 3rd and 4th years combined, very caring and friendly environment.
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Amazing facilities, really love the philosophy of the school (extremely student centered), beautiful campus.
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The philosophy of the school; the dean taking so much time to personally show us the school and tell us about his ideas; the state-of-the-art facilities; the fact that all professors have been practicing dentists for many years; the fact that not a single D2 that I met said life was hell in dental school.
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The staff and proffs were really nice, and the students seemed quite happy there. (IL)
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How happy everyone was to have us there and how friendly every single person was
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The efficiency of how they run every detail in the school, from pre-clinicals and clinicals all the way down to sterilizing and distribution of instruments in the clinic.
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Everything. I love the school. Faculty and student relations are incredible. Open door policy, brand new equipment. Caring environment. A+
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The facility is awesome~~ high tech..
the curriculum was impressive; they do system-based education, which really caught my attention.
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The tour. The campus is very nice. The new dental clinic is going to be amazing!!!
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How happy the students are; the feel at the school; the awesome-ness of the sim lab
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Admissions staff friendly, new things
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Facilities, school/campus was really nice
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Best facilities
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The sim-lab is beautiful with top notch technology. The curriculum is innovative and teaches by systems instead of by subject. The 3rd and 4th year students will not have requirements, rather they will treat the patients they have in all areas of need
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Awesome Sim lab and other facilities.
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Everything is brand new, top notch. The pre-clinical sim lab is really nice. The dean also knows each student by name.
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Students were happy. Facilities were spotless.
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Sim lab was awesome, new campus, there will be a huge clinic with tons of seats, area is surrounded by retirement communities to fill those seats, got a free lunch.
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Very friendly students / faculty. School is very nice and everyone is nice.
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Nice campus and staff
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I was really impressed with the school and the program when I left, a lot more than I thought I would be. They focus a lot on ethics and have great technology, and enough of it to go around.
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The campus and area is pretty much amazing, although its really hot in the summer but you get used to it relatively quickly. The dean seemed to be really down to earth and made you feel welcome on the campus and never once talked down to us or made us feel unwelcome. Sim lab rocked! Brand new everything and everything is huge, the sim lab holds like 125 students at a time.
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The pioneer spirit among students and faculty. The students have a say as to what should happen as the school grows and develops.
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Facilities and friendliness of students
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New facilities, star faculty attracted from around the country.
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The sim lab was amazing. The new clinic which will be open soon will be awesome with the number of seats they have. The fact that they concentrate on a specific body part or system at a time. They emphasize the clinical aspect much more than the research aspect. The staff was also very laid back and friendly.
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Everything. The dean is great, and really wants to get to know all the students and actually sits down with them at lunch meeting every so often to get feedback on how everything is going. The rest of the faculty and staff are really nice as well and so are the students.
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Sim Lab, new school, admissions committee's laid back and friendly personality
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The Sim Lab and
Dean Simonson's enthusiasm
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The facilities were amazing
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The people and the technology
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Facilities, students enthusiasm
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1) The technology. Everything in Midwestern is new, and that can be a big plus since Dentistry is a constantly evolving profession when it comes to that.
2) The friendliness of the dean and everyone else! Fantastic.
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The Dean spent most of his time with us. The students were all friendly and had positive energy about the school. The faculty and admissions were cool too. Everything is brand new.
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Being put at ease by the adcomm interviewers.
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Friendliness of faculty, very nice facilities, Midwestern's reputation and outlook for the future
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Lots: The school is very new and employs cutting edge technology. Toured the brand new sim lab, which has HD video cameras for the instructor to use to monitor the progress of the students at their stations (in addition to the 25 instructors that will be circulating through the lab). They also plan on using CEREC or similar technology as an option for labwork, and all charting and x-rays are digital. They also plan on having i-cat scanning for oral surgury cases. They employ a systems-based approach to learning coursework. For example, when you study the cardiovascular system, you will learn the histology, biochemistry, microbiology, pharmacology, anatomy, physiology, and perform a case study, all of which helps integrate what you learn more effectively (theoretically at least). The faculty are very friendly, well-qualified, and genuinely concerned with providing the best education possible.
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The campus is big, nice, and brand new. Everyone there was happy to see you there.
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Dr. Simonsen (Dean), new facilities and beautiful campus.
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The glendale area and the MWU campus is beautiful
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Very helpful and nice faculty. Was able to visit with the dean personally.
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How friendly the staff was.
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Campus is brand new, Faculty are very nice, and Arizona is a very cool place to live.
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It looks like the school is really gonna get some good technology in there and try to take care of their students. They are really chill faculty and they just sat and talked to us.
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The campus is nice - the gross anatomy lab was by far the coolest I've seen.
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Staff was very friendly and personable. The admissions staff even ate lunch with us! Fielded all questions that they could.
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Where they are heading with technology. They'll have brand new clinics. The community service opportunities. The campus is really nice and should be expanding over the coming years. The weather is awesome. And the fact that the faculty was pretty straight forward about their current progress.
Applicants commonly expressed concerns about disorganization, long wait times, unengaging interviews, unresponsive interviewers, high tuition costs, lack of completed facilities such as the clinic, and a perceived focus on profit over patient care in some instances. Suggestions included improving organization, increasing interviewer engagement, reducing wait times, and addressing concerns about the school's reputation and facilities.
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Nothing!
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The whole day was really disorganized. Staff not showing up, only 2 students showed up for the so called student panel (they sat tgt and only 4 of us were able to chat with them), staff got the time wrong and our group had to wait 10mins for the other group to finish their tour. Everything just tells me that the admission did not take feedback from previous cycles. I had a couple interviews before this and none had me wait 3 hours for everyone to finish the interview.
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Waiting almost two hours for all of the interviews to be complete in the morning.
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2 of my 3 interviewers were extremely unfriendly, to say the least. This was not my first dental school interview, so I felt thrown off by how cold my interviewers were; the student interviewer was friendly but the two faculty were the least personable interviewers I have ever encountered. Every time I answered a question, I would be interrupted or pressed to elaborate even more, and I felt as though my interviewers wanted me to feel uncomfortable due to how they would just stare at me the entire time. They did not even let out a single smile the entire interview.
Overall, don't take my experience as representative of everyone else's, but if you decide to interview here then be sure to prepare to come up with elaborate answers on the spot and don't expect them to be as friendly as interviewers from other schools.
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Could have had more interviewers so that there was less time waiting
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There was no student panel other than a lunch with 2 current students
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There was little engagement from the panel of interviewers. It was like talking to a wall. They would ask their questions and listen but did not interact. There was an intense pressure to just fill the silence. Additionally many of the questions felt repetitive or testing. The entire day was nice until the actual interview process.
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I felt very interrogated in my interview. I did not like the vibe to be honest. I don’t feel like they even asked me good questions and I was a little shell shocked when I left. I hope no one else has this experience.
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Weather, tuition
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N/A
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Interviewers were not personable.
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One interviewer grilled me a bit too hard for straight forward answers
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One of the interviewers attitudes. Emphasis on capitalizing dentistry.
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One of the interviewees seemed to be really grilling me on every answer I gave. Near the end he kept looking at this watch and sighing while I was answering. When I asked one question at the end of the interview, he asked if I was done asking questions. For a day that lasted from 7 am until 4 pm, I felt really rushed out of the actual interview portion.
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Taking basic sciences with medicine and pharmacy
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Long interview tour
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The is my worst interview experience for several reasons. Firstly, they really try to sell you on the school, to the point where they lie to you. For example, they say they are the only school that allows students to place implants - not true at all. Secondly, I found them to be very ingenuine towards people and I didn't like that. For example, they almost made one of the interviewees cry. The poor guy came out like he saw a ghost and didn't even want to tour the school and wanted to go home. At first I thought maybe he just wasn't prepared but when I interviewed they were very grilling. Definitely not professional interviewers. They didn't make me feel comfortable at all and seemed to question everything I said in a negative way. I had 11 interview offers so far and attended 9 so I am speaking with experience and comparison to quite a few other schools. Overall, I think they have a good program but the faculty I met and saw that day were not great. Hopefully someone from administration reads this and improves it for the next cycle.
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Tuition cost
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The location is a bit remote from the big city and cost.
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If you on the last interview panel you have to wait a long time.....
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Just my two cents--
Faculty kept talking about the amount of money their graduated dentists earn.
Based on what they have emphasized in presentations, the school focuses on training their students to be competent dentists, but de-prioritizes improving oral health via service and research (coincidentally the second half of their mission statement). They sometimes mention research, but students don't get involved much, especially once clinical training begins. This is a good school for students looking for a solid foundation in dentistry (plus other procedural certificates) and a high-paying salary. Not for students interested in making a big impact in oral health through research or dental public health.
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Price of the School.
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The "drill" style interview
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Nothing
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Expensive, everything seemed like it was focused on preparing you to make money instead of actually helping patients in the future
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The school is new so their system is unproven.
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Luch
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I was a little disappointed that the interview was kind of short -- I felt like they were rushing through it a bit.
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Nothing. This school is awesome!
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Lots of down time.
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The whole day was awesome. Could not think of one thing I did not like other than maybe the cost of tuition.
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The clinic, although it was brand new and pristine, was hardly being used. That's partially because there were no 4th years yet, but it still seemed odd.
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The interview lasted way too long! Got there at 7:45 a.m., didn't get done until 2:45 p.m. Also, it's hard to compare the school since there's no history or other data. VERY expensive school - over $96,000 per year for the total cost.
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It was hard to get a lot of information across in 8 minutes and everyone in my group agreed it was almost impossible to tell how some interviewers were responding/interpreting our answers (IL)
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Its hot
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The fact that it's on the expensive side for a dental school, and that it's new so no history on NBDE 2 (but they did great on NBDE 1), no alumni, no known specialization rate as of now.
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The dental student that I was interviewing with was SO unresponsive. I kept looking at him during the interview when I was talking and he was always just blank and didn't even smile! I'm not sure what his deal was, but I feel like the way he was might have impacted my interview negatively. From what I heard from everyone else's interviews, he was the only one that acted this way.
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Nothing. It's a great place. Unfortunately it is on the high side of cost for a dental education though.
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They haven't bought land yet to build the clinic, and the dental school wont be finished until next summer. They are a little behind on construction because the workers were on strike for a few weeks ... hopefully they wont strike again ... ? (IL)
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The estimated price of attendance and the financial aid ladies were not available, so we watched a 10 minute video they had made. Disappointing.
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School is brand new, and the clinic wasn't open to view at that point (it was a week later, though, and I've seen the pictures online. Looks amazing)
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There are no seniors. the school is new, established in 2008
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Nothing really
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WAITING. The process took FOR-EV-ER, FOR-EV-ER, FOR-EV-ER. Also, they gave $9 food voucher, but that wasn't enough for a not-so-tasty lunch.
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Interviewer was trying to convince to me to go into another career, school is too new thus no reputation
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Interview didn't go well for me...I felt attacked for the way I handled a cheating situation.
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High-school like environment..seriously!
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The clinic will not be completed until next semester at the earliest. Therefore, there is not anyone to speak with about 3rd and 4th year
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Lack of knowledge about my application and who I was; lack of diversity among student population; defensiveness when you ask about problems the school has had being so new; behind schedule on completing the clinic; lack of interest by the D2 student present at the interview. The interview seemed like amateur hour.
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The clinic isn't finished yet so you have to base your decision on faith that the clinic will be successful.
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Cost. Location is decent.
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Do not expect breakfast (expect pastries and muffins in sealed plastic and juice). I wish I had clicked better with my interviewer. They said to expect to take out $388,000 in loans for the four years (Way more than anywhere else I applied). Sat around in a waiting room for about 60-70% of the time I was there (7:15-2:00)
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Clinic is still not done yet. Also, school is fairly new and weather can be hot..
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Bad weather and food
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HOT!!!
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Although my interviewer overall was pretty good, he seemed somewhat uninterested in what I was saying for responses, the dental student that was interviewing me seemed way more interested in what I was actually saying, so I dont know if that was bad for me or if he did that to everyone.
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Converserly, the school is underdeveloped and does not have a clinic.
I was asked if I had any questions and mine was this:
"What are your clinical criteria/expectations?"
The response was obvious guarded body language. They seemed to attack my knowledge of the school, saying, "we don't have a clinic yet."
"I'm aware of that," I said, "but what will you expect of this current year's class?"
The answer was fuzzy at best. I did not get the feeling that they even know what they want as far as clinical experience goes.
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Cost, interviewers
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They have no track record. No one knows how well their students will do on the boards or getting into specialties.
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Overall nothing major. The food wasnt great and a few of the buildings were a bit small. The average age was 27 and they dont have any undergraduate programs. These could all be positives in some way, however I guess I'm just used to a larger school.
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Nothing to say. I guess it would have been nice to see the clinic but it wont be done for a year or so when the current class will begin to need it.
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Dental clinic is "far"
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Financial Aid presentation,
Dean's presentation, he mostly talked about wild animals and showed their pictures....!?!
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You don't get to do your own lab work
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The price
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The location of the school. Given that its only 15-20 minutes away from Phoenix (the fifth largest city in America), it's really located in a bare and desolate area. It's not a desert, but it does not seem to be full of culture or a very high traffic place. Although people will be studying intensely for the first couple of years at least, its reassuring to know that a school is in a culturally live location.
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The speed and disinterest that the financial aid guy showed during his presentation.
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Obviously there is only one class of students and they are only in their second week so it's hard to talk about the program, everything is still developing,
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The cost. Plan on spending 80K/year to attend (tuition, fees, and living expenses)
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Dental clinic was not built yet; however, medical clinic is modern and impressive.
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The school seemed really full of themselves and the interviewers couldn't really answer the questions that I asked them. On top of that, they criticized the school that i interviewed with previously
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The dental building wasn't even built yet.
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Nothing real negative, but the dental facilities were not complete yet so you couldn't actually tour the labs. It was more of a disappointment.
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Size of school is kind of small... only about 1500 students total. That is smaller than my old highschool.
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No facilities to really tour since for obvious reasons they haven't finished building them yet. Tuition is killer, I don't know why I should pay so much!
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The actual interview. The interviewers seemed uninterested in hearing the answers to questions they had just asked.
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The building is not built, so you had to use your imagination. Obviously it will be nice when it is built because it will be new, but hopefully construction does not encounter any problems and delay anything. Our tour guide was not a student and seemed pretty unknowledgable about everything, and he did seem to enjoy the smell of the cadaver lab. He just seemed kind of disinterested in everything.
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Nothing really. Some people say that there is a high school feel to it, which isn't a bad thing. I had gone to a small university near Chicago, which was pretty much the same, so i felt right at home. They send you a DVD before the interview, so there aren't any surprises :)
Most applicants wished they had known more about the unconventional interview style, the lack of engagement from interviewers, and the need for creativity in responses. They also mentioned the importance of researching the school thoroughly and being prepared for a long day with lots of downtime.
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Just how rude the interviewers are, specifically the dean. The other interviewees seem to have had a decent experience so this could just be a personal opinion. But the constant head shaking, the sighs, and even interrupting my answers just aren’t acceptable. Sure, they may just want to throw us off but it is just unprofessional. They challenged my answers constantly. This day really made me realize how I absolutely do not want to come to this school.
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You will be there from 7 am to 3:15 pm.
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The interview questions are not really related to dentistry, you have to be creative and find a way to connect your response wisely.
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How little engagement and energy that the interviewers would give you.
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I wish I knew a TON about the school because they ask what do you know about MWU (the whole school not just the dental school).
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N/A
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It would be difficult to make conversation with the interviewers.
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I was intervewed by 3 different people, 4 questions each.
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How unconventional the interview questions would be.
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A lot of walking so if you are wearing heels, consider flats or bring a change of shoes!
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That the clinic is not next to the school and that classes are in different building on campus, there is not a dental building that you have everything all in one building
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Don't mention you are considering specializing, they really look down upon that since they focus on general dentistry.
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How out of the norm the interview questions were going to be.
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How hot it would be to walk around in suits.
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You will be walking a lot around the campus as you tour.
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Know the mission statement
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Other schools' curriculum.
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The definition of Tenure
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Do some research on the school and bring lots of questions, because you have many opportunities to ask questions.
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The school is a 30 minute trip from downtown and the airport.
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How awesome this school is
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My interviewer and his background
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The building you're supposed to go to in the beginning is a little tricky to find.
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Not to stress out about this low-stress interview day :)
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That it was finals week and no students were really around, haha.
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I felt very prepared. However, there is a lot of down time in between the interviews and tours.
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The interview was one senior faculty and one second year student.
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Nothing, all my questions were straight from this site.
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That it was closed file
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That the building where you meet for interviewing is on the left side when you enter campus, the right side is the clinic.
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Can't think of anything. Online information prepared me very well.
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That the school does not exist yet. (IL)
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How stressfree it would be
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Check in at the security post as you enter the campus. They have a pass that will get you into the locked building where you interview. The campus is very secure and you have to have a card/key to get into any building.
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People said there was an excruciating amount of wait time. It's not that bad! Be friendly with the students and the other interviewees. Make your presence known, but include others in the conversation. Remember: the interview lasts ALL day.
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That there was a student who interviews with the professor.
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That it would have been so stress free
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How awesome this school would be.
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That it is very warm
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It was gonna be like 100degrees.. in november!
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There is a lot of downtime, but it's pretty cool to talk to the other applicants from all across the country and find out about them.
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No need to worry about it.
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That there was going to be about 4 hours of doing nothing, just waiting around.
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There would be sooooooo much time sitting around. Its good in the sense that you can socialize with the other applicants and dental students but I think its a little too much. You could easily condense the entire day down to 3 hours and still be fine.
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I felt as well prepared as I could have been. I would have liked to know that the (marketing) tour ended at 2:30, not 12:45 as I was told. This made getting to my plane on time quite a harrowing experience.
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Who would be interviewing me
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They will have looked at your application and will ask specific questions about it.
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Nothing really. Maybe that I could have spent a lot less for a different cab service to the school.
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How laid back the interview process was
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That the interviwer will be mean and yell at me! I thought i did horroble on my interview but i got accepted!! :)
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How many people would be interviewing that day. there were 18 people in my interview group
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Nothing in particular.
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That the weather was hot. Don't wear thick clothes.
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That I was going to meet my brotha from anothr motha. GG you rock man!
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How relaxed the interview day would be.
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The interview questions. haha
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Non standard questions that were asked
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That we were going to have to write an essay.
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Nothing.
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Nothing
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How nothing is really set in concrete yet, that goes for the buildings and their course material. Everything just kind of still seems up in the air, and they made it sound as if the first year students will be almost like lab rats being experimented on for future students.
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It is really hot there! But, they're pretty cool about taking off your blazer and loosing the tie up a bit. And if you wear a turban, then go for a lighter shade :)
