Negatively
2 out of 10
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10 minutes
At the school
2
One-on-one
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"What do you do for fun?" Report Response | I was asked this question too
"Tell me about this activity." Report Response | I was asked this question too
"Have you done community service?" Report Response | I was asked this question too
"Why weren't you a postdoc? (Absolutely stupid question since I don't have a PhD. I'm really shocked I was asked this since the interviewer, a MD, should know better.)" Report Response | I was asked this question too
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"Friendliness of the admissions staff. Location." Report Response
"Second interviewer (Dr. Richard Stern) was curt and absolutely unknowledgeable about the medical school. When asked about the curriculum or what he likes about Weill Cornell, or the students here, he would reply either with a generic response like "the curriculum is very strong" without any further details or support or just "I don't know anything about that." I don't know why he is allowed to be an interviewer. I had to ask many questions just to keep the conversation going and that only lasted 10 minutes. He also asked only redundant questions that he could clearly find the answers to in my application (example "Have you done community service). My application was right in front of him too. He also asked a really strange question of "why weren't you a post doc", when referring to my research post graduation in the lab. I don't understand this question because clearly on my application I did not say that I have a PhD or have even been to graduate school, so why would I have been a post doc? It was the most unproductive, uninformative, joke of an interview that I've had. If it weren't for the friendliness of other people I met at Cornell, I would have left with a very bad impression of the school. Fortunately, it was just that one idiotic doctor who thought he could be an interviewer." Report Response
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12/14/2010
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