Interviewed here recently. Doubt I'll get accepted. I was kinda shocked at my student interview. I'm not sure if the student was trying to throw me off or seem like a "hard interviewer," but they seemed completely disinterested in my answers and interrupted me with the next question on their list several times. When I told them what I liked to do on my free time (nothing too unusual), the interviewer basically scoffed at me. Several fairly "hostile" questions as well.
Overall looks like a good program. Just don't go into your student interview thinking it'll be super relaxed. I did, and I was wrong.
Have to agree with you and with zzxxzz. I am not saying that the stress interview approach is an official policy, but I did feel as if my faculty interviewer was trying to bait me and that I was not asked anything related to my file--or to medicine. I was disappointed. Not sure if the difference in interview experiences can be attributed to various interviewer personalities or if particular approaches are reserved for certain applicants. I was expecting to love Case, but left with a less positive impression than I went in with.
First time checkin in here in a while and I noticed your guys posts.
I interviewed at Case early in the interview season and it was my first interview. My faculty interview was in the morning and I was waiting outside his office while he was finishing up his interview with another applicant. The interview went like 5-10 minutes over and I started to get really anxious. As they exited, I remember him saying to the applicant something along the lines of "I know you'll make a fine doctor some day". We got started and it started out pretty conversational but then some of the questions were seemingly out of left field and really caught me off guard. I did my best to answer them, although I stumbled a bit. It eventually came to an end as we were walking out of the room he says "Well, I'm sure you'll get in somewhere". D'oh! Comparing that to the "I know you'll make a fine doctor some day" the applicant who went before me got, I thought I was doomed. My student interview in the afternoon, on the other hand, went great.
I had my second interview a few days later at another school high on my list, and I thought I nailed the interview, both with the faculty and with the student. Come mid-October, I find out that I get waitlisted at the second school, but low and behold I was accepted by Case!
I guess moral of the story is, do your best and roll with the punches as best you can. Sometimes you do all the things right and it still doesn't work out, but just because you slip up here and there also doesn't mean it
won't work out! I know the interview season can be grueling and stressful, but just do your best and try not to get to rattled and you guys will be fine!
Btw, I don't know of any sort of stress interview policy that Case has. Granted, I'm not a student interviewer, but I've never heard any talk of it. If you run into something like that it may be just how that interviewer goes about it, but I don't think its something everyone interviewing at Case will run into. Just my $.02
