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  • Tufts University School of Medicine
  • Allopathic Medical School
  • Boston, MA
Overall Experience

How did the interview impress you?

Negatively

What was the stress level of the interview?

2 out of 10

How you think you did?

8 out of 10

How do you rank this school among ALL other schools?

6 out of 10

Questions

How long was the interview?

15 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)?

"What do you want me to tell the admissions committee about yourself" Report Response | I was asked this question too

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

"The other interviewer just asked me about amcas stuff as she read my file in front of me for the first time... " Report Response | I was asked this question too

What was the most interesting question?

"does everyone in the south look alike?" Report Response | I was asked this question too

What was the most difficult question?

"what do you want me to tell the admissions committee about you?" Report Response | I was asked this question too

How did you prepare for the interview?

"SDN, Tufts website" Report Response

What impressed you positively?

"other interviewers were nice, the staff was friendly, good TUSK internet access" Report Response

What impressed you negatively?

"they want to baby you here, I stayed in a dorm and it sucked, no one said hi and I had to basically stuff myself into a room to get anyone to talk to me. My interviewer hadn't read my file at all and she read it during the interview. The other interview was so short that i didn't get to say anything important" Report Response

What did you wish you had known ahead of time?

"don't stay in posner unless you want to feel alone and isolate. There is no order to their interview afternoon, you are randomly called and you just have to sit in the same room all day until your interviewer finds you, its like speed dating kinda- short and superficial" Report Response

What are your general comments?

"Long day of lecture, lunch, interviews and tour-- all in same room except for the tour obviously" Report Response

Tour and Travel

Who was the tour given by?

Student

How did the tourguide seem?

Neutral

How do you rank the facilities?

9 out of 10

What is your in-state status?

Out of state

What was your total time spent traveling?

2-3 hours

What was your primary mode of travel?

Airplane

About how much did you spend on room, food, and travel?

$201-$300

What airport did you use?

BOS

Where did you stay?

At school facility

How would you rate the hotel?

1 out of 10

Would you recommend the hotel?

no

General Info

On what date did the interview take place?

01/31/2006

How do you rank this school among other schools to which you've applied?

5 out of 10

What is your ranking of this school's location?

8 out of 10

What is your ranking of this area's cultural life?

9 out of 10

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