How did the interview impress you?

Positively

What was the stress level of the interview?

4 out of 10

How long was the interview?

30 minutes

Where did the interview take place?

At the school

How many people interviewed you?

2

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)?

"Medicine/Duke Specific: Why Duke? Why medicine? What do you plan to do in the third year? What do you think is the most difficult thing about being a doctor? " Report Response | I was asked this question too

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

"General Interview Questions: If you could have dinner with anyone...? What do you do in your free time? What do you think will be important issues in the upcoming presidential election?" Report Response | I was asked this question too

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

"Specific to my application: What policy related issues are most important in healthcare? You've already switched from business to medicine... What might you tell someone who thinks you will at some point switch from medicine to another career?" Report Response | I was asked this question too

How did you prepare for the interview?

"Looked at Duke website, read interview feedback" Report Response

What impressed you positively?

"Unique Curriculum. Only one year of basic science (very streamlined), the rotations in the second year, an entire year free for research or pursuing a joint degree in the third, elective in the last. " Report Response

What impressed you negatively?

"Though the students seemed happy to be at Duke, they did not seemed thrilled to be giving tours, fielding questions, etc. Perhaps it was the time of year." Report Response

What did you wish you had known ahead of time?

"There was a lot of downtime during the day. We arrrived at 10, my first interview wasn't until 3." Report Response

What are your general comments?

"The interviews were very casual. The only thing that made one of the interviews a little more stressful than expected was that one of the interviewers was so quiet and spoke so slowly.... it was really hard to get a conversation rolling and to sense what type of impression you were making. I talked to a handful of people that also felt this way." Report Response

Who was the tour given by?

Student

On what date did the interview take place?

12/17/2003