Neutral
5 out of 10
30 minutes
At the school
1
One-on-one
Open file
"Tell me about your research." Report Response
"What are you career goals?" Report Response
"Tell me about <so-and-so> activity. " Report Response
"n/a" Report Response
"Tell me about yourself (open-ended Q)." Report Response
"On the day before, I looked through the info I submitted via my application. While waiting for the interview, I read through their school catalogue. " Report Response
"Quality of the faculty, shadowing of doctors during 1st year, residency placement, students, cafeteria" Report Response
"Housing" Report Response
"I didn't realize how "renown" this school actually was until about 2 months later. Frankly, I was just applying to NYC schools and Columbia happened to be in the right place. I guess that explained why some of the other students were so anxious during their interviews. " Report Response
"Interview was with an endocrinologist affiliated with the hospital. Columbia doesn't use a few standard interviewers - it appears that they use a bunch of different doctors. My interviewer was really into research so we talked a lot about that. " Report Response
Student
11/09/2003
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