The most commonly asked interview questions at medical schools include inquiries about the motivation for pursuing veterinary medicine, knowledge of current veterinary issues, ethical considerations in animal research, handling difficult situations in the field, and alternative career paths with a DVM degree. Additionally, some interviews were conducted in an MMI format, with questions tailored to the applicant's experiences and knowledge, potentially involving a nondisclosure agreement.
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1) why do you want to be a vet? 2) why OSU? 3) tell us what is different about our curriculum? 4) name some major issues facing vets? 5) what bill is currently passing through the senate that would benefit vets? (yep didn't know that one!) 6) what are zoonotic diseases/name some
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Tell us about your wildlife experiences?
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We noticed you don't have any large animal experience, why not? What are some other veterinary career paths?
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Tell us about your research
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Why Vet med?
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How do you restrain a cow? A cat? A gecko?
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Why veterinary medicine?
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How do you feel about using animals for research or experimentation?
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What are some other things you can do with a DVM, besides diagnostics and clinical practice?
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Why do you want to be a vet? What will you do if you don't get in to any schools you applied to?
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No "tell us about yourself" question, no "why OSU" question.
In no specific order:
1) How much does OSU cost?
2) Why do you want to be a vet and not something else in the animal world?
3) General clinical pathology questions such as 'what's your favorite part of clin path', 'which chemistry analyzer did ya'll use', etc.
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How will you handle the difficulty of the veterinary curriculum?
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How will you manage your time for studying? (Relevant because I am married and have a small child.)
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1.) Specific questions about my experiences
2.) Tell me about H1N1.
3.) Tell me more about H1N1
4.) Specific questions about my life/family
5.) On a scale of 1-10, how comfortable are you handling large animals?
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Tell me about yourself, why do you want to be a vet?
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What can you tell me about the Horse Slaughter Act?
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Tell us about yourself.
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They asked me a lot of questions specific to my application.
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Why do you want to be a vet/why OSU?
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What can you tell me about TNR (trap-neuter-release) programs? Why not just euthanize the animals since they've caught them?
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Money related: How much does it cost to attend OSU vet school? How much would you be in debt? If accepted, how would you pay for it? What's the starting salary? Do you feel comfortable with the fact that your debt will be ~2X as much as your starting salary?
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Tell us about a current event affecting the veterinary world.
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Where do you see yourself in ten years?
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What would you do if your dog was in the vet hospital, you had three huge tests that week (including one the next day), and your mom called and told you your dad was going to the hospital for emergency surgery?
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What can you tell me about the horse slaughter ban?
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How much money would you expect to earn as a veterinarian? How do you plan to pay for school? How much debt will you have at graduation?
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
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How much does it cost to attend OSU? How do you intend to pay for it/will you hold a job while in school? How much do veterinarians get payed right after graduation? How long will it take you to pay back your student loans?
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What is the salary of a veterinarian?
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What's the difference between animal rights and animal welfare? Name an organization associated with animal rights. What do those letters stand for?
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Why do you want to become a vet?
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Describe a difficult situation and how you dealt with it.
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Rank the schools that you applied to and give us your reasoning for why you ranked them in that order.
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How will your research experiences allow you to contribute to veterinary medicine?
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What is an animal species that you know nothing about but would like to know more about? Then to follow- How would you go about learning/getting to know about that species?
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Have you heard about Proposition 2?
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So, tell me a little bit about yourself.
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Walk us throught dealing with a client having to explain rabies testing and the procedure.
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What was your favorite class in college and why?
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How much does it cost to attend vet school?
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Where do you see yourself in a few years...ie what do you want to do in vet medicine?
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How do you decompress?
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Tell us about BSE.
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So, we take 140 highly academically qualified students and we make a soup, put them in a pot. And things settle out. Where are you in the pot, and how do you deal with people being different from you or better than you in some respects?
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We often have to work with people we might disagree with, tell me about a time and how you dealt with it.
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Have you looked at the cost of attending Veterinary School among all of the schools that you applied to?
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What is MRSA?
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How did you deal with a stressful situation?
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Tell me about BSE.
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Personal strengths and weaknesses
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What are 10 things you can do with a DVM?
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Why Ohio State?
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Have you read any good books lately?
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Why OSU?
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What are some other things that you can do with a Veterinary degree besides working in private practice?
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Tell me about your path to vet med.
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You mentioned you were involved in many post mortem evaluations, can you describe some of them?
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How do you manage stress?
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Describe a round worm egg.
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What would you do if a old farmer brought his old dog into be euthanized?
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What is an issue that veterinarians are going to have to increasingly deal with? [I started talking about avian influenza, and one of my interviewers interrupted me and asked if I knew about any other issues, so I mentioned Mad Cow Disease (since I knew that was what she was getting at), and she said, 'that's what I wanted,' so make sure you know about mad cow disease and it's symptoms and what the US is doing about it]
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What is the biggest issue currently in vet med?
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What do you know about avian influenza?
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What is the difference between animal welfare/rights?
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What does GDV stand for? Explain symptoms of incoming patient with GDV. How would you diagnose this condition and how would you treat it?
Students said most interesting question asked at medical schools discussed a wide range of topics, from personal experiences to ethical dilemmas and current veterinary issues. The interview format may have been an MMI, as some responses hinted at nondisclosure agreements, while questions focused on scenarios like managing difficult clients, addressing controversial topics in veterinary medicine, and evaluating applicants' personal and professional attributes.
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What stroke did you swim in high school?
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Should veterinarians have a place in Washington (D.C.)?
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Is there one thing that you will not be able to give up in vet school? Riding my horsies, of course!
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Explain a time where you had a difficult customer at Caribou Coffee. (I worked there in high school!)
How do you study?
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Have you heard about the emails about global warming? Why is it an important topic for veterinarians?
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A question asking me to compare the strengths of two different business models for veterinary clinical practice.
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What type of emergency situations have you witnessed?
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What do you think we should do about bacterial drug resistance? What is a major non-scientific issue facing veterinarians?
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As a lead off from the most interesting case question:
"Why do you think a cat's skin would just peel off like that?"
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How will you deal with a client's desire to use ineffective complementary and alternative remedies?
We had been talking about CAM-criticism as an interest of mine. :)
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Are there any questions we didn't ask that you thought we were going to ask? (Totally threw me off for some reason.)
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So what happened with your boyfriend situation?
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None - they were all generic questions, except for the most difficult:
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What are your feelings on the horse slaughter ban?
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What do you think the advantages and disadvantages are of the broad-based curriculum at OSU?
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Say a client was upset about how much their visit cost? What would you do in this situation?
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Tell us about the research you were involved with.
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What would I say to a client if they asked if it was ok to consume meat/milk from a cloned animal.
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Name some species you do not have experience with. What can you do to gain experience between now and starting vet school?
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What can you take from your years of dancing and apply to veterinary medicine?
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Tell me about a goal you set for yourself and what you did to accomplish this. What did you learn about yourself in the process?
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Is there anything else you want to tell us that you think we should know?
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Tell me about a goal you have set for yourself, how you achieved it, difficulties you may have had, and what you learned from it.
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What would you do about the unwanted horse situation?
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How will your experiences as a waitress help you in your veterinary education and profession?
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All pretty predictable after seeing this website beforehand.
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Specific to my experiences - be prepared to talk about them+
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Tell us about the usage of pain management techniques. Do you think that pain management is needed in cat de-claws?
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How is your Drosophila microinjection relevant to veterinary medicine in terms of model systems?
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Situation: your dog is at the SVM with chronic diarrhea and you have a huge cardiology exam tomorrow. Then your mom unexpectedly calls to let you know your dad is about to go into emergency open-heart surgery. What would you do in this situation... describe your whole thought processing?
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Explain our curriculum here at OSU.
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Give three words to describe yourself and three words others would use to describe you.
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Would you ever be able to bleed Scarlet and Gray? (I'm a Gator, so there's a bit of a conflict of interest!)
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Walk us through the process of milking a cow
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If we were to give you an unlimited amount of money, which area of vet med would you use it in and why?
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How was it coming from a city and being in 4H?
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What do you think are the weak parts of your application?
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Why do you think the Avian Bird Flu is so prevalent in Asia vs. the US?
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Tell us about your favorite class you've taken and your least favorite class.
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Tell us some stories.
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What current issues in veterinary medicine may your clients ask you about
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The most interesting question I was asked was what did I know about the Horse Slaughter Act?
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How do you feel your [random extracurricular activity having nothing to do with the veterinary field] prepared you for veterinary school?
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What was something you did that was above and beyond?
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Why not medical school?
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Name a time that you used your creativity that stands out at you.
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Have you ever thought about teaching?
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What were you looking to gain from your research?
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The group interviews were interesting. The students were divided into groups and given assignments to perform while being assessed.
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Why did I want to be a vet?
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How would you explain copper toxicosis to someone without a medical background?
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Tell me about perspectives on stem cell research.
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Tell me about the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act.
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How would your friends describe you?
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If your local municipal board asked you to become the town's health inspector, would feel qualified? And would you be interested?
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How would you set up your fee structure in your clinic, and have you been able to determine an objective evaluation on different veterinary jobs?
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Tell us how you would explain an abscess in a cat to a client.
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What are your thoughts on adding antibiotics to the feed for food animals?
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Did the story in your personal statement really happen? (I made my personal statement into more of a narrative with a flowing story-line...and yes, it did happen...we all had a good laugh about it)
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How would you repair an intususseption on a lamb?
Most applicants prepared for the interview by extensively reviewing feedback on Student Doctor Network (SDN), conducting mock interviews, researching zoonotic diseases and current events, and studying their applications and relevant veterinary topics. Additionally, many applicants practiced answering common interview questions, familiarized themselves with the school's website, and sought advice from veterinarians or professionals in the field.
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SDN SDN SDN, mock interviews, looked up potential questions
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SDN, mock interviews, research on zoonotic diseases and current events.
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SDN, SDN, and more SDN. Referred to OSU interview feedback and made a list of many of the tough/common questions asked by OSU. Read up on most important veterinary issues (BSE, influenzas, ethical issues, etc). I also reviewed small animal veterinary concepts I should know (important blood/urine test values, common drugs used, etc)
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SDN, reading about current issues (world and vet), Ohio's website
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SDN, mock interview with a veterinarian, preparation with surgeons and residents I work with, AVMA website, current events, OSU website, went over questions with my family and friends
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SDN, going over current event topics, mock interview with a vet, talk to people.
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Read SDN, read up on current issues (primarily on AVMA), talked to people who interviewed there (and at other schools) in previous years
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SDN, read through my application again, and my research stuff I did while in undergrad (which they did ask about)
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Read SDN feedback, brushed up on current events.
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SDN, looked up current events and zoonotic diseases
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SDN, interview feedback, practicing with a web cam to see facial ticks and the like, wrote out answers to the most 'popular' questions, etc.
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Read AVMA news, mock interviews, reviewed VMCAS and supplemental.
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Read SDN interview feedback, Read vet news
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Compiled SDN interview feedback questions and had people test me; wrote up an answer to "tell me about your self"; wrote up a summary of my research; talked to myself a lot; mock-interview; looked up a bunch of current events + relevant zoonotic diseases.
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SDN, mock interview, reading the news
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Read up on veterinary issues, researched the school, prepped answers to some questions.
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I read these questions. I looked up current events. Read their website.
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Went over basic/common questions.
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SDN reviews, mock interviews with faculty at my college, read up on current events, and reviewed my application
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Read my VMCAS application, OSU supplementary application, SDN, and veterinary relevant articles. I also went over responses to common questions like, "why do you want to be a vet," "why OSU," etc, etc. Came up with specific questions to ask at the end of the interview.
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I did tons of practice questions, read up on current veterinary issues on AVMA, researched the school and curriculum.
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SDN website, OSU website, reading over secondary app.
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SDN, went over my applications, read up on current events.
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SDN Interview Feedback, reread application, AVMA website, other veterinary websites
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Read SDN interview section and forum, read about zoonotic diseases and current events on AVMA website, reread application
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Reviewed Ohio's veterinary school website, AVMA's news website, zoonotic diseases, and my application.
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SDN interview questions, my essays for my application, studied the OSU website including curriculum, first year student handbook, tuition, etc.
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Read about current events and zoonotic diseases; re-read my application essays; went over common interview questions
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SDN interview feedback, read over my VMCAS and supplemental apps, OSU website, practiced interview questions, read up on some zoonotic diseases and current issues
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Reviewed supplemental application, personal statement, osu website, SDN, avma.org, push-ups, figured out how to answer all the cliche and awkward personal questions, hungout with some pups and kittehs
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SDN, Ohio web site (BTW knowing a lot about all the schools you applied to will help), AVMA website news section and zoonoses backgrounders & practiced
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Read SDN interview feedback, researched diseases, reviewed applications and research, and went over questions with friends.
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Borrowed books on livestock pests, brushed up on zoonotics and current events, highlighted every statement in my VMCAS and supplemental applications that could be directly questioned--this was tremendously helpful.
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SDN feedback, OSU-SVM website, read over my VMCAS and supplemental application
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Reviewed appilcations and studied some of the information on past veterinary experiences.
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Read over OSU's website, reviewed my VMCAS and supplemental apps.
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I read all the previous interview feedbacks on Student Doctor Network, read up on some current issues, read all about zoonotic diseases (they asked about them!), practiced interviews with my friends, re-read my application/resume/essays (they asked specific things from my application), and checked out the Ohio State and AVMA websites.
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Rereading my application, practicing with the career services office at school.
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Looked over application, personal statement, current events, and research.
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Read over school website, went over practice questions
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Read current events (relevant to vet med), read previous interview feedback, and went over my application)
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Went over my application, read my personal statement, brushed up on all relevant zoonotic diseases, brushed up on local equine concerns, watched the news, talked with friends, professionals and vets
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Read through practice questions, watched the news, had friends and family ask questions.
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Read other interviewers' posts, studied current events/hot topics (which was a good thing because they asked me about avian flu, BSE, Michael Vic, the human food recall, and Horse Slaughter Act)
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Look over application materials, review current events
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I prepared by taking questions from past interviews on the Student Doctor Network. I also looked up the Ohio State University's Pre-Vet Website and found their list of questions that were asked. I then answered all of those questions, looked over my VMCAS and Supplemental Applications. I then looked over any odd cases I had from my experience I had at my Hospital. I then looked up Zoonotic Diseases, Avian Influenza, BSE, etc... (All of the previous three came up in my interview). I made sure to know what my research was about and I looked up research that doctors at the hospital were studying.
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Honestly? I really didn't prepare other than review my application and the school's research projects. I just made sure to look professional and to be myself.
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OSU site, researched current issues
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Prepared answers for all the posted previous OSU questions, talked to veterinarians, read over my application.
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Watched the news, read over application, talked to veterinarians.
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Watched the news for a week before the interview, studied my notes from my experience with veterinarians, read a book on veterinary medical ethics, looked through information on AVMA website, mock-interviews with faculty at school, family, friends, or whoever would listen, haha.
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Read over my research and application and looked over previous interview questions
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I did a lot of research on zoonotic diseases, and different species of farm animals ( I had heard that some of their interviewers would ask people to name 5 species of swine or dairy cow)
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Researching the program, speaking with students who had been through the experience.
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Read over my application materials.
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Looked up current issues and over my application
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Reviewed my application, looked up and thought through interview questions, read current events (both global and vet related)
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Read over my VMCAS, checked out CNN and FDA News sections on-line, went to the vet school's website and read about the program I was interested in (this will help you formulate good questions to ask them as well).
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Checked out the OSU website
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Reviewed my applications, information from Ohio's website, current events, common diseases and vaccines.
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Read over my essay and application, studied BSE Avian flu, horse slaughter in the news, lots of mock interviewing with my boyfriend.
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Read up on current events, practiced questions, and read through my application.
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I read about current public health issues (avian flu, bse, etc.) and reread my application.
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Not much. Just went over basic questions in my head (Why do you want to be a vet? Why did you pick Ohio State? etc.) Probably should have prepared more for the specific veterinary questions, though I don't know how I could have because they asked me questions from courses I took years ago.
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Mock pre-interview with my undergrad's pre-health advisor, reading up on JAVMA's website, reading about current events in general, going over basic interview questions for pre-health careers
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Read over questions I found online, was sure to read up on current veterinary related issues in the news (Avian Influenza, BSE, Canine Influenza....)
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Moc interview with two veterinarian friends. Reading up on current events in the news and veterinary issues online.
Students said most difficult question asked at Ohio State University discussed a wide range of topics including handling conflicts with colleagues, veterinary career paths, ethical dilemmas, and situational scenarios. Some responses mentioned a Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) format, suggesting nondisclosure agreements might have been in place due to the nature of the questions.
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None - they were all pretty basic :)
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Tell us about the senate bill that would benefit veterinarians.. something about giving benefits to those individuals that would help with research and such
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How would you settle your differences in opinion with a large animal vet if you were on the Issue 2 board of inspectors? Also, the fact that I got asked NO small animal questions!
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What can you do with a DVM? I began talking about research/ vet med in africa,idia, etc...then they asked how do you believe you would receive funding for this?
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Nothing really stuck out as too difficult.
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Situational question: An owner of a dog comes to your house late at night complaining that she just went to another vet and they couldn't diagnose the problem. It obviously had a bad case of fleas. What do you do?
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How do you think the conditions that lab animals are kept/housed in are? (Follow up to How do you feel about the use of animals in teaching and research?) (Only difficult because I have no experience with lab animals, so I had to admit that I do not know - which was fine!)
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What does TTA stand for? (Tibial Tuberosity Advancement)
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What would you do if you were appointed to the Animal Care Standards Board (created by Ohio Issue 2)?
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Can you explain your grades in ____ semester? (very poor grades one semester)
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We talked about my MBA some and about the financing of vet school. I mentioned that I wanted to open up my own clinic and so they asked how much does it cost to open a clinic? I'd never done any grand amount of research on that topic (will cross that bridge when I get a bit closer to it lol) so I had to kind of guess.
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As a re-applicant, what makes you ready to enter to vet school now?
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Tell me what a typical day might be like for a DVM who doesn't work with animals
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What's your greatest weakness?
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What is the mechanism of action of Gleevec? What is the mechanism of action of any chemotherapy drug?
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What is the average debt of a vet student graduating right now.
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Describe yourself using 3 words.
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What is your opinion on using animal sacrifice for educational purposes? (Just hard because it was the one ethical question I HADN'T thought of a solid answer to previously)
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What's a difficult conversation you have had to have? How did you handle it and what did you learn from it?
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What else would you like us to know that we haven't already read about or talked about?
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None
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Describe a time when you were trying to achieve something and encountered road blocks. (I'm bad at remembering good examples when put on the spot for these types of questions)
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There were no truly difficult questions, everything was tailored to your application and very fair.
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What are you reading? (The only book I could think of was Twilight - an embarassing teen vampire book - and luckily I thought of another slightly more mature book at the last second)
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If you had a pet owner come in with a 16 year old cat in need of a dental cleaning, what reasoning would you use to convince the owner to get the cat's teeth cleaned if she didn't care about oral health? What blood work would you run and why?
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Tell me about some specific issues veterinarians have faced in the past year. Why would these issues (that I mentioned) be important for a companion animal veterinarian to be educated on?
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Tell me more about BSE.
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What is your leadership style?
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Where do you see yourself in ten years?
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How will your non science coursework help you as a vet.
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Tell us about a time when your honesty turned a bad situation/major mistake that you made into a positive situation.
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Tell me about a time you used creative problem solving to address a difficulty in your laboratory?
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Are there any questions we haven't asked you yet that you think should be asked to benefit your chances of getting in?
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Name some diseases that pigs are vaccinated for.
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What the most stressful situation you've ever encountered, how did you deal with it, and what have you learned from that experience?
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Is there anything else you'd like us to know that isn't evident in your application? (Not necessarily a hard question, but it caught me off guard at the end of the interview and I hadn't prepared for it!)
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What is currently going on in the media that will affect bovine practitioners? (The cloning of meat animals, which I know now but had not read about pre interview.)
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Tell us about a time when you used your leadership skills and creativity to solve a problem.
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Money issues - running a practice, convenience euthanasia, etc.
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How do you feel about euthanasia/the horse slaughter act?
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What current events should veterinarians be concerned about?
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None of the questions were very difficult. I never had to say ''I don't know''
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Do you think Michael Vic's sentence was appropriate? (I live under a rock and so I only knew generally about the whole situation.)
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Same
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The most difficult question concerned whether what was the greatest adversity I had faced. Since this concerned the death of my mother, this was very difficult.
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If this was a slim letter year and you weren't accepted anywhere, what would you do?
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What are some things Veterinarians do aside from practice and research?
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Tell me about a time you disagreed with someone very strongly, but still had to work with them.
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Same as above
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Tell us about yourself.
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They didn't ask anything that couldn't be answered
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I was asked a lot of situational questions about how I would handle a given situation in practice. For example, I was asked how I would handle a situation where a client brought a puppy in to me that had a broken leg and had been treated by my colleague down the street, but it was clear that it wasn't treated properly.
I was also asked about zoonotic disease - i.e. name some, why do we care about them?
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There were no difficult questions. It was the interviewers' personalities that made the interviews difficult.
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What adversity had I overcome?
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Have you ever sat down with a vet and discussed how they structure their charges?
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What is the single greatest problem facing the world today?
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Tell us about a time that you made a significant mistake, something that if given the opportunity to do again, you'd have done completely different.
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Tell us about a mistake you made and how you rectified it
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How would you handle a situation where your client said their last veterinarian never told them of their dog's longterm condition?
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Anything else you'd like to tell us? (i hate that one) Why should we choose you over other applicants? (I hate that one more).
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How do you perform a spay?
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If your recommenders could describe you in three words, what would they be?
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How much alfalfa hay would you feed a producing dairy cow daily?
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What would you tell a client that called you to say that their dog had pinworms?
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Nothing was extremely difficult, Just be honest.
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Trying to convince the interviewers that vet school was not a last minute, fleeting dicisions for me and that although I had changed my mind in the past regarding my future vocation, I was not going to this time. I mean, how do you convince someone of what's in your heart?
Applicants were overwhelmingly impressed by the beautiful facilities, friendly and welcoming staff, enthusiastic students, and the overall positive atmosphere at the school. They appreciated the organized process, the sense of community, and the genuine interest shown by interviewers in getting to know them as individuals.
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Everything.. the whole process seemed really organized, everyone seemed to love the school and the facilities were amazing :)
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The beautiful facilities!
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EVERYTHING. This school is absolutely amazing. Such a vibrant city with tons of stuff to do. Lots of school spirit. The current students are all thrilled to be at OSU. They had nothing bad to say during the question/answer period. Facilities are beautiful. And the staff are all so friendly (even the bad cop in my good cop bad cop interview)
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Everyone was really nice, the students all seemed happy, columbus is awesome and all in all OSU is an awesome school
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How comfortable the interviewers made me feel. I felt like I was having a normal conversation.
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The facilities.
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Good relationship between students and faculty
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The current vet students were pretty awesome, nice, talkative, funny, down-to-earth...
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It's a great school. Good location (TONS of stuff to do in Columbus), student affairs is very responsive and friendly. Very active student social life. The interview was pretty laid back compared to some I have had, which was nice.
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The tour guides and all the students I talked to seemed very open and friendly. They talked about how once you are in vet school, there is very little competition between students for grades since there is no curve, so you all help each other out in stead of trying to beat the curve. The facilities were AMAZING.
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The vet school. It's humongous! There's so many cases there and the students have a lot of free reign too.
They don't do terminal surgeries. Not that I'm against TS, but it's nice to know they don't.
Faculty, staff, and students were all happy to be there.
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Beautiful facilities, friendly interviewers and students, good explanation of how to handle the cost of vet school.
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The town was larger than I expected as was the campus.
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The laid back atmosphere; the awesome facilities + huge caseload; that the large animal facility was adjacent to the small animal; my interviewers were like the SWEETEST people ever;
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Attitude of interviewers and admissions staff
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Facilities, congeniality
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The students that presented information to the group seemed very honest and available.
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Nice facilities. Columbus is a fairly large city, so coming from one of the largest cities in the U.S. not too much of a transition.
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The day was very well set up and the information session was great. The students were very friendly.
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The laid-back atmosphere, interviewers really seemed to want to get to know me, tour and student Q/A session were very helpful.
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The enthusiasm of the students and faculty I met about their school and the close-knit community they have there.
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The facilities were great and the students/staff were so helpful and friendly.
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Everything! The students were extremely friendly, the one who gave my group tour was great! Everyone was super nice, they really wanted us to be at ease. The information sessions were very helpful and I learned a lot about the school.
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The dean was very personable. They stress how OSU is a family. Lots of opportunity for involvement. The interview was relaxed (or as relaxed as it could be!)
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The people and the presentation. Everyone was genuinely excited to tell us about the school and their experiences. The information session provided all the important information that I wasn't expecting to get from it.
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Everything- the enthusiasm, the welcoming nature, the facilities, the interview itself...
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Facilities, especially proximity of equine hospital to all other buildings (even though it is in a city), students were very friendly, very nice equipment (microscopes, computers, etc. all on rotating replacement schedule)
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There was a Q & A with the current vet students and they seemed very happy to be there and were very open and friendly. The facilities were very impressive and the equipment is all brand new. There was a lot of reassurance that if you get rejected from vet school, it is not a personal failure and to keep trying if this is what you really want. My interviewers were very kind and non-threatening.
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The facilities were great, everyone including students, faculty, and interviewers were very nice, I loved that parking was available for all students
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The people - extremely friendly, down-to-earth, empathetic. I was VERY impressed.
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Anatomy lab
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The uncompetitive nature of the other interviewees, free pet food for students
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The Deans and students (very down to earth and approachable) and facitilities. After my interview I was wishing that one of my interviewers could be my advisor some day.
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The facilities, the students, the faculty, and the professionalism of the entire day!
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The interviewers did not attempt to reduce me to a pile of goo like my PhD committee did during my candidacy exam. Once my nerves settled, the interview was a rather pleasurable experience.
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School pride- could be seen in both faculty and students. Also, the orientation session before the interview really helped to calm nerves!
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The facility was very nice and the faculty was amazing. They were very laid back, which helps with being nervous.
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Facilities, curriculum, financial aid availability, how enthused all of the vet students seemed about the school.
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The vet students that did the Q&A and led the tours were super-enthusiastic and everyone there couldn't stop saying awesome things about Ohio State and how much they loved it.
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That u can become a resident of Ohio after ur first year
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The interviewers were friendly, the tour guide was very outgoing, and the facility was great.
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Good sense of community
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How nice and enthusiastic everyone was!
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The other interviewees. It was nice to talk with the others, break the ice and realize we were all in the same boat, Nice to hear their stories.
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The interviewers were extremely easy to talk with, they did not seem very judgmental at all.
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My interviewers were awesome. I figured it was going to be okay when the first question I was ask was, ''so, tell us some stories''. :)
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How easy it was to talk to my interviewer and how she truely wanted to get to know me.
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I was impressed by the fact that the Main Academic Building was practically new. (At least five years old.) I liked that the people were very friendly and it had a large number of residencies.
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The interviewers knew everything about my application, including the other schools I applied to.
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The staff was very friendly and the atmosphere was pretty relaxed up until the harder questions.
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All the staff seemed friendly and wanted to get to know me. Everything was kept to a schedule.
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Everyone was friendly and the facilities are great.
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I really was impressed by facitilites, especially the veterinary teaching hospital. I was also impressed by how nice everyone was that I talked to - my interviewers were very good at making some small talk to start the interview to help me to have less stress.
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Everyone was so friendly, the facilities were huge
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My POI.
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The facilities - they were up-to-date, state of the art. Everything seemed new, and very nice. It was a bigger school than others I had seen.
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The faculty and students were the most professional I've met in the grad interview process.
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The interviewers seemed to really want to get to know me.
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Everyone was extremely friendly and the facilities are wonderful!
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My fellow applicants and the facilities.
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The dean of student affairs (one of my two interviewers) was soooo nice, I could tell she had REALLY read my VMCAS because she would ask me the hardest questions in the areas that she knew I worked the longest in and more basic questions in the areas I'd worked less in. She also recalled specifics from my personal statement (and she didn't have any notes out at that point to remind her of things). Both interviewers were so interested in finding out about me as a person, I'd say 40% of my questions had nothing to do directly with vet med.
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Everyone was very friendly and welcoming.
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The staff's attitude and the layout of the veterinary hospital.
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The facilities, and the city
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The facilities were top notch! They even serve starbucks coffee! Everyone seemed very nice.
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The campus was nice and so were the people.
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My interviewers were simply amazing! They were both very nice and extremely personable.
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The ease of transportation around the campus and the nice facilities.
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The facilities, the centralness of the hospital to the lecture halls, the extremly nice interviewers!! (what is it about midwestern people that makes them soooo nice?)
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Nice facilities
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The beautiful VMAB building. The immense amount of school pride and ethusiasm among students.
Applicants frequently expressed negative feedback related to the lack of organization and structure during the interview day, such as long waits between activities, unenthusiastic or inexperienced tour guides, and a lack of thoroughness in showcasing the facilities. Suggestions included improving the scheduling of activities, providing more engaging and knowledgeable tour guides, and ensuring a more comprehensive and informative tour of the campus and facilities.
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Lack of caffeine at orientation :(
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No coffee at the orientation
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Nothing.
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I am interested in wildlife medicine and thats the one area that OSU completely lacks
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So cold! (I'm from Florida haha) The traveling was also a nightmare with multiple canceled flights and weather issues.
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The campus is very big.
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Can't think of anything!
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The cost for out-of-staters is ridiculous! But at least you can get residency pretty easily if you want to move there after your first year.
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My interviewers were kind of "green." They were new to the school, AND new to interviewing. It seemed like they didn't really know what they wanted to ask me. After I finished answering, there would always be an awkward silence while they thought of something else to ask.
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Nada
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Nothing really. The cold maybe? Not sure they can do much about that, I hear it's a seasonal thing. Personally I blame Canada.
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The roadways were a little difficult to me. I had no negative impressions about the school.
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Not much...
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It snowed but not their fault.
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All the students were totally depressed by their curriculum - nobody likes the first two years at all. The interviewers seemed to just read questions off a sheet - it was very awkward.
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The super long information session in the morning. It was a lot of information that I'd heard before, and a lot would only be pertinent to students who were accepted. Why spend so much time on this type of information when we're all sittin around completely nervous.
The tour was not as thorough as other schools I've been to. Additionally, they kept talking about the new teaching hospital that wouldn't be ready before I graduated. Kind of a disappointment.
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The veterinary library closes @ 8pm and there is no cafeteria to buy lunch and not many tables to eat at for hundreds of students/staff.
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Nothing really.
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While one building was brand new, the rest were older (not as nice). How many people they interview for OOS spots.
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The out of state tuition is high, but they give you every opportunity to gain residency after one year. That's really the only negative thing I saw that day.
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Nothing- I do agree that people there for an interview should already know just about everything they go over in the presentation.
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Very expensive for OOS!
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The orientation had two repeating themes: Vet school is hard! Vet school is expensive! Anyone who does not already know this must not be very serious about this profession.
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Very expensive, huge campus
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I felt some of the information we received was a little inappropriate. Some of it we should know before we applied and some of it we didn't need to know unless we're accepted.
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The unusual questions in the interview
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Lack of free caffeine
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The Red Roof Inn. Great price, but the heater there made crazy sounds all night and kept waking me up. If you've got money to spare, it might be worth the extra ~70$ to go to a better place
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The black ice.
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No free coffee! ;)
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Can't think of anything at the moment...
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Some parts of the hospital seemed a little old and cramped, enormous tuition cost for non residents.
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Having to wait 3 1/2 hours between lunch and my interview. It didn't end up being that bad though; a lot of us sat in the lounge area and chatted.
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The tour was not the greatest. Kind of boring and we did not see much of the hospital
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Nothing
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Some things need to be updated
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Absolutely nothing
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Our tour guide could have been more enthusiastic; it was kind of a dreary day, she could have worked to make up for that fact. :)
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It was kind of a dreary day, and the student guide wasn't the regular guide. The original guide left with only two people and there were over 10 people for the interview. Thus the guide who gave us our tour wasn't very impressive, but she tried her best.
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The surroundings around OSU were pretty boring and I don't know if I would enjoy being in ohio for 4+ years... with gloomy weather 6 months of the year
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Many of the classrooms were in use, and there was a conference going on so I was not able to see a lot of the academic facilities. The day was not really organized - I had my interview in the morning, then it was optional to come for a student-conducted tour at noon
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Some of the faculty appeared to be socially awkward.
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The whole process was quite unnerving, because everyone was so unfriendly. There was nothing organized for interviewees other than the actual interview itself. The tour was thrown together last minute, and led by a student that was only half interested. The admissions staff was quite unfriendly, and my interview was incredibly stressful.
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The faculty was curt and impersonal. The day was robotic.
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The tour wasn't as informative as I had hoped
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The interview day was not very structured and because it was exam week we couldn't see the classrooms
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The fact they didn't make a whole interview day out of it.
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Nothing at all.
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Class size is big--140!
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My tour was during the college's break, so my tour was not very thorough.
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The admissions woman, Taira Crockett - I was already hesitant to meet her since shes less than pleasant on the phone...in person shes no different which is a shame for that school's PR
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We didn't really see much of the hospital facilities (walked through it, but didn't see any surgery or appointment rooms).
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The tour guides weren't the best. I wish they would have given us more info.
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I wish a student would have given me the tour -- I think this was just because of the timing of it. My interview was pretty late in the year and it would have been nice to perhaps have it a bit earlier.
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The fact that the day was unstructured. I enjoyed the visit, but at other schools they plan a whole day for interviewers.
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My interviewers were older and retired. The created a very stressful interview atmosphere which felt like and instense 45 minute grilling session where I bascially felt like I had to defend myself rather than sell myself.
Applicants commonly wished they had known to be less nervous and stressed, as the interviewers were friendly and not as intimidating as expected. Additionally, applicants recommended bringing comfortable shoes for the tour and being patient after the interview, as offers may not be immediate.
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Buy coffee ahead of time..
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I didnt need to be so stressed out, the interviewers were really nice and did not TRY to stress me out or push too hard if i truly didnt know what they were talking about!
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I'll tell you what I wish I HADN'T known. I was actually kinda bummed after my interview because I heard stories of other ppl being approached directly after the interview with admissions offers. I didn't hear anything for about a week and a half and during that time I was obsessing about little things I did wrong in my interview. But right before Christmas I got a call offering me admissions!!! So be patient. Just because you don't get an instant phone call doesn't mean they don't want you.
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Just read SDN and you will be well prepared
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That I would be too nervous to eat lunch. yikes!
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That the campus is the biggest campus in the U.S.
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That a blizzard on the east coast would leave me stranded in Columbus for 2 extra days? ;)
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That it wouldn't be as stressful as I thought it would be! I wasted so much time worrying about things I shouldn't have been stressing out about. They just seemed like they wanted to get to know me a bit better.
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Nothing.
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That I didn't need to be so nervous. The interviewers I had were so nice and tried to make me feel comfortable.
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Not really something I wished *I* had known, but I'm sure someone did.
Some people had been sitting in the lounge for HOURS. One girl had been there 6 already and still had 4 more to go. Not sure why they got there so early but I'm sure it was not much fun. As an interviewee, they said you're welcome to walk around the building and can go upstairs to the library to read or get on the computers or whatever.
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Nothing, I was a third-timer.
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Where the best place to park was.
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That it would be soooo cold!
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Most of the tour is inside, so I wouldn't worry so much about bringing a change of shoes
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How awkward the interviewers would be! It felt more like a behavioral style of interviewing than I was lead to believe ahead of time. Be ready to just TALK about everything. Don't expect it to be comfortable or to have a real conversation. They interview a ton of people at the same time so it's totally just the luck of the draw who you'll get.
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I felt pretty well prepared for this interview, so I'm not sure there's anything I felt I didn't know.
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Parking meter info. And mapquest messed up my directions (they left out a street going there and then leaving the street names didn't even exist).
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That I really shouldn't have been so extremely nervous.
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How many other people would be there that day (40 people).
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Nothing. SDN had me well prepared for what to expect.
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I felt well prepared- it is a good idea to bring comfortable shoes (as they recommend) because the tour does take you all over the place and my feet were killing me by the end of the day.
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How friendly everyone was - it was definitely not nearly as stressful as I had imagined it would be!! Also, how much they would probe about current events and career awareness.
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I would have wanted to know they were going to ask me so many questions about clinical situations. I would have wanted to know that they would ask about global issues and not just national issues. I would have wanted to know that if you have any C's, D's, F's, or W's on your transcript in prerequisites, they will ask you to explain them!
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I should have reviewed more current events
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Nothing
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That they were going to ask so many questions about current events in veterinary medicine
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That my skirt would get static cling to my stockings
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Sign up for an interview as early as possible. Otherwise it's torment!
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That there is not much to do between interviews and lunch.
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I didn't feel fully prepared for my interview beforehand (had 2 finals the day before, so didn't prep too much).... but I walked out of the interview feeling OK! So no, can't think of anything I wish I would have known ahead of time.
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Although I knew some already, be prepared to give some zoonotic diseases. Also, be prepared to talk about anything on your application or anything you say in detail.
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I wish I had brought a book along. The morning was information sessions and the tour, followed by lunch until 12:30, when interviews started. My interview wasn't until 2:45, and there wasn't really anything for me to do or anywhere to go except hang out in the lounge where we had eaten lunch. It wasn't really a big deal, as most everyone else with later interviews just sat there and talked until it was our turns.
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There were things that I didn't know about OSU, but nothing really that I wish I'd known. I was surprised at how urban the campus is, and at some of the qualifications to get Ohio residency. Overall I feel that I was very well-prepared.
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Nope... SDN is awesome!
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Other reviewers said parking (it's metered) but I had someone drive me. Let someone else worry about feeding the meter so you can concentrate on you.
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I should have gotten a map of the buildings (the inside of the buildings) because trying to find Dr. Couto in Onco-Land proved a little difficult at first.
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I wish I had known how close my hotel was to the Academic Building. I left an hour to get there and it took five minutes.
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The school hospital does not see rabbits.
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I should have done more research...
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That there aren't very many minority applicants.
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The parking meters cost a quarter for every 15min. So bring lots of quarters
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Meter-parking only!! Bring lots of quarters! Also, an extra pair of shoes wouldn't hurt for the tour, especially if you interview in the afternoon after the tour - we walked through the large animal facility, which was clean for a barn, but still a barn. :) You don't want to smell like you stepped in something going into your interview, even though it IS a veterinary interview, haha.
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I should have rented a car because it rained the whole time
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That this type of interview process was very uncharacteristic of all the other processes! I thought I was going to experience hell like this at every school I interviewed with. Definitely not true!
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That the atmosphere is not as stressful as everyone makes it out to be.
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There are parking meters right in front of the academic building, as well as some by the teaching hospital.
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Just bring quaters b.c visitor parking is metered (15 mins = 25 cents). I had no trouble finding a spot to park b/c there is a fair amount of visitor parking around the school.
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Wear comfortable shoes--lots of walking also Taxi's do not know where Coffey Road is! Try to get specific directions you can give them.
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Perhaps more about the facilities so I could have asked more questions.
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That the interviewers dont always ask specific veterinary knowledge questions - I wasted time preparing for that
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The tour is long and my feet started to hurt from my shoes!
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Wear comfortable shoes for the tour.
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They don't feed you!
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Nothing. I felt adequately prepared.
