How did the interview impress you?

Positively

What was the stress level of the interview?

5 out of 10

How long was the interview?

60+ minutes

Where did the interview take place?

At the school

How many people interviewed you?

1

What was the style of the interview?

One-on-one

What type of interview was it?

Open file

What is one of the specific questions they asked you (question 1)?

"Tell me about your family and background." Report Response | I was asked this question too

What is one of the specific questions they asked you (question 2)?

"What are your interests outside Medicine?" Report Response | I was asked this question too

What is one of the specific questions they asked you (question 3)?

"What kind of physician you want to be? Academic physician? Research scientist? Clinical care?" Report Response | I was asked this question too

What was the most interesting question?

"What kind of music do you like" Report Response | I was asked this question too

What was the most difficult question?

"The dreaded: How would you fix the U.S. Health care System?" Report Response | I was asked this question too

How did you prepare for the interview?

"Read the secondary, AMCAS personal statement" Report Response

What impressed you positively?

"The low-stressed students, the new hospital that's being built, the successful new curriculum change" Report Response

What impressed you negatively?

"My tour guide's not a fan of the weekly quiz evaluation, although that doesn't determine the final grade; less hand-ons clinical experience than say, schools like USC" Report Response

What did you wish you had known ahead of time?

"UCLA students are happier than some other schools I interviewed at" Report Response

What are your general comments?

"The questions that my interviewer asked was really very general, so I tried to elaborate more and make the conversation more interesting. At one point I was rather taken back though, when I mentioned that I did a research related to measuring EEG on autistic individuals. My interviewer is a neurologist, and he keep on saying that that was stuff that was done in the 60's and he couldn't understand why any researcher would still be doing that." Report Response

Who was the tour given by?

Student

On what date did the interview take place?

11/19/2003