I'll take "Undergraduates should probably be required to take more math" for 600, Alex
The original question was: in addition to MMI, do they have any traditional interview component where you get asked standard interview questions, e.g. why albany, why medicine? So clearly there were prompts he answered that wouldn't be there by answering "just MMI". Also the website only says MMI format, which yes does omit a traditional interview format but not "standard interview questions". That's a big difference, format vs type of questions.
You realize it's still possible for them to ask those "standard interview questions" during the MMI, right? Let me rephrase the question as such to illustrate:
Condition 1: MMI (wherein they can ask whatever they want)
Condition 2: Traditional wherein they
must ask "traditional interview questions"
The question asked can be stated as "Is it (Condition 1
and Condition 2)
xor (Condition 1)?" My reply was that it was Condition 1 (the second option). This does
not indirectly imply
anything about the MMI since I only stated that Condition 2 was absent. The door is still open for them to ask "Why Albany?" etc. in the MMI and I haven't disclosed anything.
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And the Mars example? way off topic.
Nope; it was a direct response to this part of your post:
One can say that by stating what questions won't be asked you are in a sense indirectly disclosing prompts.
It is on topic because it illustrated that even if I did state what I had
not been asked in the MMI (which I said nothing of the sort. In fact, it could be argued that
you are the one "way off topic" by even pointing this out.) it still does not preclude that question from being asked in the MMI. By stating what you weren't asked about, it gives the inquirer no additional information about their interview. As I stated before, MMI's change up the prompts all the time so each set can be considered independent, and what do we know about independent events? By definition, one does not affect the other(!) I'm sorry that you do not seem very good at abstractions, however it was just a silly example to demonstrate a point.
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Also, any people still prepping for the interview, this would be a great MMI situation to play around with haha.
No, it really wouldn't be as this case is remarkably open-and-shut
Ah, shoot. I still forgot to phrase it in the form of a question.
