No change
1 out of 10
30 minutes
At the school
2
One-on-one
Open file
"The classic "why do you want to go into medicine?"" Report Response | I was asked this question too
"What other schools are you applying to - and why do you think you will come back to Texas?" Report Response | I was asked this question too
"How have your parents influenced your decision?" Report Response | I was asked this question too
"How do you plan to deal with failure as a doctor (i.e., when you can't help your patients)?" Report Response | I was asked this question too
"What could you have done to better prepare yourself for med school?" Report Response | I was asked this question too
"Read school website, talked to classmates who had attended UT, read my personal statement, application, and read over potential interview questions" Report Response
"Texas Med Center is great. The students were overwhelmingly happy and enthusisastic about their school... maybe a little too enthuiastic?" Report Response
"Downtown Houston. The flood damage is still severe, and it looks like they're not going to fix it any time soon. I don't know if the school tries to attract the top academic students - they repeatedly stated that "your grades and MCATs don't matter to us"" Report Response
"You don't really have time for all of the tours, so take the ones that you're interested in as soon as you can." Report Response
"My first interviewed was a cross between a stoner and a cheap zombie from the Thriller video. He hadn't read my file and was clearly not really interested in conducting an interview from the get-go. All of his questions were very bland and could easily have been answered by reading my file. Bleh. Hopefully that was just the interviewer and not representative of the school - my second interviewer was great, very conversational. The students were very helpful, though I got a feeling of a whole lot of Texas A&M-ness, which may or may not be a detractor for you. Overall, it was a pleasant day, and the message from the Dean that started the day was very inspirational - they are indeed serious about their patient-care there, so I think it may be a better place for clinical medicine than others." Report Response
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