two moments in particular stand out:
1.) i interviewed at a school that used their lunch w/ current students as a mini-interview. anyway, i got my food and sat down next to another interviewee. after exchanging pleasantries (just names and where we were from), the first thing out of his mouth is (and quite nastily, i might add): "if you're from [state], then why are you here at [med school]?" not what undergrad i was from, not what i had studied, not what i was doing not, not what i thought about the weather... but that question.
i'm not going to lie, i definitely blinked a few times in surprise. then i went on to smoothly answer how the school's mission fit my career goals. i then posed the question back to him, as he was OOS as well. guy parroted my answer back to me.
2.) girl asks me where i've been accepted. at first i don't wanna say anything because i know no one in my interview group has gotten in anywhere else (don't want be a dbag), but she keeps asking since i don't say anything. so i finally tell her, quietly.
she then promptly brings up that fact in front of one of admissions officers like 20 minutes after the fact. the adcom looks at me for my response, and i go "well, i may have been accepted at [school], but i wouldn't be taking a day out of work and spending time here if i didn't want to go here. plus, i had a great time at [alma mater], so i imagine the med school is the same."
anyway, long story short, accepted at both schools. chyeah~
i just don't get why some interviewees are so nasty. it's like... you might be going to school with these people one day! :/ do you really want to start off the school year with someone thinking you're a d*ck?
EDIT: holy crap my long workday is getting to me! haha... sads.
