They also have some interviewers with bad reps. The bed and breakfast owner actually warns students of one on particular (who 4 people had on my day) MedPR encountered one as well 🙁 best of luck!
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I think the B&B lady started to warn me about the person who ended up being my interviewer, but she said "I don't think they've done any interviews yet this year" and didn't tell me about it.
However, if you get Dr. Mueller for an interviewer, just prepared to be **** on for an hour. If you are/talk like you are a gunner she will like you. If you're a normal person she will hate you. Why do I say this?
Our essay question asked what we would do about a classmate in a specific situation. The answer I gave involved working with the student because I believe in teamwork etc etc. The interviewer wanted me to say that I'd throw him under the bus and tell the teacher/Dean.
Edit: Ah screw it, here's the prompt. Your class is assigned to do a research project, but are instructed not to use web based resources. You see a classmate using a web based resource for his research. Your grade is based on a curve, so you know that this classmate has an advantage by using the web based resource. What do you do?
I said I would give him the benefit of the doubt (that he didn't hear the instruction not to use the internet) and remind him what the rules are. I said that I believed working to help my classmates be their best and develop their academic/research skills is important. I also said that I believed my grade should be based on my own merit/talents and not on my ability to sabotage my classmates.
The interviewer questioned me about it and I explained my reasoning. I explained that the classmate might not have heard the instructions. The interviewer said that we received written and oral instructions and stated as 100% fact that the classmate knew the rules and was purposely breaking them (this was
not included in the prompt). She then asked me "what right do you have who gets to follow the rules and who gets to break them? What makes you that special?". I told her that the prompt didn't say we knew the student was maliciously breaking rules and I simply accepted the possibility that my classmate was unaware and I didn't think it was necessary to report him for cheating/get him in trouble. She then went into this rant about how if I won't report someone for cheating, how will I report a physician for doing something life threatening.
Seriously ridiculous in my opinion. I honestly thought I had written a gem of an essay by talking about teamwork and wanting to help my colleagues grow and learn rather than try and destroy their chances. She thought I was helping a cheater prosper
Oh and she also questioned the legitimacy of my URM status. I have a caucasian last name and she asked me about both the origin of my name and the race I identified with/marked on AMCAS. If I wanted to go to Drexel I would've made a big fuss about this with the AAMC.
