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Interviewier: "What do you think is your weakest attribute?"
Me: "My honesty"
Interviewer: "That's strange, that is often considered a positive attribute."
Me: "I don't give a **** what you think."
Total interview lasted about 30 minutes. 15 of those minutes talking about alcohol and fake IDs and another 5 talking about how I'm apparently not going to graduate.
Dec. 1: Wait listed.
My first interview was with 4 ADCOMs. I disclosed 2 different underage drinking instances on my application, one of which was my RA finding my fake ID in my dorm room. They brought up the drinking violations right away and I explained what happened, how I was stupid, what I learned, etc., hoping to move on so I could talk about some more positive things on my application. One of the interviewers then asked me everything about the fake ID: where I got it from, whose picture was on it, whose address, what state I was from. So I explained how me and a group of friends got on some Chinese website and ordered these IDs. At this point I was really hoping we could get over this whole thing, but then he asks me exactly how many times I used my fake ID which I answer 5 or 6 times just to get into bars. Finally, a different interviewer chimes in "How about you tell us what you like to do in your free time other thank drinking beer?" That got a laugh from everyone and broke some tension. I was hoping for smooth sailing in the last half of the interview.
5 minutes later, a different interviewer is looking at my transcripts and asks if I'm going to graduate in time. I only took 12 credits in the fall semester, and I'm currently enrolled in one 3 credit upper bio class that I need to graduate. I answer yes I'm graduating in May 2015. He looks back down at my transcripts and says "I don't think you have enough credits." I tell him something like "I don't know if there is a problem with the transcripts you have, but I'm 100% sure I'm graduating in May." I try to explain how I took physics over the summer at a different university and how I brought in a bunch of Spanish credits, but he remained concerned.
Total interview lasted about 30 minutes. 15 of those minutes talking about alcohol and fake IDs and another 5 talking about how I'm apparently not going to graduate.
Dec. 1: Wait listed.
Dunno if it's a stupid thing I said.
But anyways, I was in the middle of an interview, talking about the hardships of not having any papers when I went to college (immigrated back in the 90's though). The interviewer (older aged gentleman) cuts me off and says
"Oh yeah, I read that. You were an illegal immigrant."
Umm...okay? Not exactly the title I liked hearing. Especially since I grew up hearing things from folks saying "go back to your country." Kinda hoped I wouldn't run into that problem in dental school. So, I try talking to him about what he's done in the past. He mentions going to Peru and volunteering. So I perk up and go
"Oh, wow! Do you speak Spanish? haha"
And he replies "un poquito (a little). But this is America and we speak English here."
Ouch.
On top of that, he simply read off the questions from the paper, asked me to repeat my responses like three times (he wrote what I said word for word), and he asked me how to spell a word. He also cut me off a few times to say "yeah I read that already" (referring to my profile). It wasn't the best experience.
But I did get accepted there, so go figure.
WOW...that is so rude! I would definitely not want to go to a school where the atmosphere was like that...you'd think these health professionals who have gone through so many years of schooling would know better than that...
On my interview with MUSC.
Interviewer: so do you have any questions for me?
Me: I heard that students at MUSC do not get a lot of root canal cases, can you tell me about that and can you explain briefly to me what the clinical education is like? (WTF? I didn't even know how to answer such a question myself!)
Interviewer, to my surprise, went on and talked for 10 minutes.
.............. 10 minutes passed......................
Me: Yeah, sounds good.
And I got in first batch.
Interviewier: "What do you think is your weakest attribute?"
Me: "My honesty"
Interviewer: "That's strange, that is often considered a positive attribute."
Me: "I don't give a **** what you think."
I wore a brown belt with a black suit at my last interview at Michigan. I didn't know where my black belt went and just had to hold the pants up. Nobody said a word... Accepted
Also I was chewing gum accidentally at my Columbia interview. It was the first interview I had where they took place before lunch, and I was thrown off. I didn't realize it was in my mouth until I had already started talking to my interviewer, and I panicked and stuck in under the table when she wasn't looking. She definitely noticed.
I wasn't accepted on December 1st and withdraw my app shortly thereafter to attend another school. I can't help but think that this had something to do with not getting accepted. Lol.
Are you saying she noticed that you were chewing gum, or that you stuck it under the table?
Did you leave it there or take it away with you?
Why didn't you just swallow it?
Not sure if serious... but just in case anyone here thinks this is true:Bro it takes seven years to digest gums
I had just retaken my DAT in case I needed to reapply.
My first interview shortly thereafter:
Interviewer: what do you like to do for fun?
Me: I actually haven't had fun for a while (wait WTF WHY DID I SAY THAT -MUST CORRECT), because I was studying for the DAT and recently retook it. However, in my study breaks I enjoyed watching Netflix (OMG NO WHY did i rly just say that)
Interviewer: (who is very nice) oh! What do you watch?
Me: I recently got into 'How to Get Away With Murder' (srsly, I couldn't have said any other non-murderous show?!) and *begins to explain synopsis*
Interviewer: Nice, I have recently seen...
I was lucky my interviewer recently binged watched a show & we were able to talk over it. At that point I got comfortable and was able to explain my other hobbies haha.
LOLLLL that was a very smart, and funny answer lmaoo (maybe cause i'm reading this at 3am in the morning, but that was quite a laugh for me, thank you for making my night)I was debating on whether or not to post this story, but here it goes:
I was at UDM, and it was my first interview of the cycle. I was a little nervous, but not too bad. The interview had started off well, and then I got the "How would your friends describe you" question. When I was asked that at a mock interview, my mock interviewer told me to always add examples to every characteristic. This resulted in the following exchange:
UDM Interviewer: So, how would your friends describe you?
Me: Smart, funny and kind
*Proceed to explain smart and funny characteristics, because they are self explanatory, but then stall at kind so I kind of just stopped talking and hoped they wouldn't notice*
UDM Interviewer: Why would your friends say you are kind?
Me: *Freeze and stare at his face for what seems like a solid 5 minutes* Well... whenever there are bugs that get into my apartment, my roommates always want to kill them... but I always save them and throw them outside.
UDM Interviewer: ... *awkward chuckle as he looks at the other interviewer and then asks next question*
I got accepted tho, so whatevs. Hooray for saving bugs.