Interviewed here on Thursday, just wanted to share my thoughts!
The whole interview day is really well organized, I thought, at least in comparison to what I've experienced before coming to Iowa. You get the chance to hear from people with expertise in different areas, like the admissions process, the financial aid system, and the learning tracks. Not to mention students, both pre-clinical and clinical year students too.
The practice CBL was not scary at all, as long as you don't completely space out and ignore what's going on around you, you'll be fine. As our M4 facilitator said, they mostly want to see "if you can play nice with the other kids," and contribute in a positive way to a discussion.
The interview itself is less stressful than I was thinking it would be after so much was said about the "structured" portion, in which the interviewers are instructed to not respond to your answers to their structured questions. Though they couldn't respond immediately to my answers, they weren't completely stone-faced, but appeared to be listening and interested. They also referred back to my structured answers during our non-structured conversation, so the whole interview actually felt like a natural conversation, I thought. Also, neither the structured questions nor any of the non-structured questions were tricky or overly challenging.
Really great place, I'm crossing my fingers to hear some good news in the upcoming weeks!
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