Anyone feel like an interview went poorly?

[Janny]

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Anyone feel like an interview went poorly? Or so-so and STILL get accepted? I am waiting on my dream school. THe faculty interviewer I had was really hard to read, and I am not sure how he felt about most of my answers.🙁 Anyway, I hope someone has some encouraging story of acceptance for me🙂

 

[pattyk]

I couldn't read my interviewers (at two diff schools) either-no smiles no laughing no nodding-just moved right onto the next question. I think that is just how some of them act in the interview situation-I am still waiting to hear from one school and have been waitlisted at the other.

 

[AnEyeLikeMars]

Anyone feel like an interview went poorly? Or so-so and STILL get accepted? I am waiting on my dream school. THe faculty interviewer I had was really hard to read, and I am not sure how he felt about most of my answers.🙁 Anyway, I hope someone has some encouraging story of acceptance for me🙂

That exact same thing happened to me at Duke. My faculty interviewer was very difficult to read. I think the interview went okay, but it felt very formal and matter-of-fact. My student interview there was outstanding though. Afterwards, I was a little worried about how it went, but I got accepted 🙂

There was a thread a little while back about the correlation between interview performance and acceptance, and the general consensus seemed to be that there was no correlation. I think that at most schools the interview is just one piece of an entire application, and a piece that is really only important at the extremes (either very bad or very good). It also might be used to guage things like motivation to attend/fit at a particular school (the only question I was asked at every interview was "why X school of medicine")

 

[Mastac741]

Who knows what they're looking for --

The interviews that I thought I did great on -- I got waitlisted or rejected.

The interviews that I thought kinda sucked or were weird. I got accepted.

You never know.

 

[etsuprinthead]

lol, the question for me is... did I ever feel like an interview went WELL?
Psychiatrists are the WORST; you can't read them at all. I've had a couple of pretty rough interviews; at both of those places, I was waitlisted and then accepted.

 

[Janny]

Thanks guys, I feel better, I guess I will just have to keep waiting and see. Ugh, waiting sucks!

 

[RinaBe]

I was accepted at the school where I had a horrific interview, but waitlisted at two schools where my interviews went well. I'm still waiting to hear from another school where my interview was very long (2 hours), but not particularly superb. You never know how it's going to turn out, as some places will then evaluate your application as a whole, and others will give priority to the interview.

 

[TheAmazingGOB]

I interviewed with a cardiac surgeon and thought things went horribly. He hadn't read over my application and the interview probably lasted 15 minutes. At one point in the interview he said something along the lines of, "you are giving me pretty standard answers." That was my only interview at that school and was by far the worst one I've had so far.

Anyway, one month later.... accepted.

 

[Crazy4F1]

Had roughly the same experience at Georgetown actually. Couldnt get a read on the woman at all and she seemed pretty bored with everything I was saying.

...needless to say I thought my parents were joking when they read the acceptance down the phone to me

 

[CardiacIntensivist]

Anyone feel like an interview went poorly? Or so-so and STILL get accepted? I am waiting on my dream school. THe faculty interviewer I had was really hard to read, and I am not sure how he felt about most of my answers.🙁 Anyway, I hope someone has some encouraging story of acceptance for me🙂

My AECOM interview wasn't horrible but it was definitely one of my worse ones. It was very surprising when he cut me of mid answer and said. "you can go now." My acceptance was incredibly shocking and now I am seriously considering going.

 

[Rumplestilskin]

One of my interviews was harsh. There was one C on my transcript and the guy was like "what you don't know science?" They even went to the point of telling me what to do if I did not get in. Right when they said that I was thinking in my mind that the interview was basically over. Six days later I was accepted. Go figure.

 

[JohnMadden]

I was berated by one interviewer, who kept mentioning that my undergrad grades were not as strong as those who generally matriculate at the school. He kept asking me if I could handle the highly competitive environment amongst the students. After a while, I just agreed with him and said that I may not be a good fit at a school where students are focused more on grades than learning, collaboration and personal growth.... Then there was silence...

Result=> waitlisted

 

[variablistic]

I had what I thought was an okay interview at a small state school. I knew it hadn't gone the best, but not the worst either. It's a 3v1 interview. Well, I got low waitlisted with no chance of getting in, so I called the Dean of Admissions and this is what I found out my interview team thought of me:
"lacks empathy"
"an enigma"
"impersonal"
"technical"
"difficult to interview"
"arrogant"
"immature"
"immature"
"could easily adapt to curriculum"
"talked well"
"did not substantively get to the bottom of any issues"

Really, only one word can describe that level of failure.

Ouch.

The reality is, I'm pretty much the exact opposite of everything up there, except the technical and arrogant. (I told them I was arrogant in the interview when they asked for a weakness.)

It was my first interview, though...

 

[fugazism]

At UCSD, my faculty interviewer didn't really even pay attention to me, he was too busy answering his phone multiple times. After awhile he just said, "ok, i think we are done." and I left really upset because I thought I blew it. But 3 weeks later I got accepted. So, who knows.

 

[etsuprinthead]

After a while, I just agreed with him and said that I may not be a good fit at a school where students are focused more on grades than learning, collaboration and personal growth.... Then there was silence...

Result=> waitlisted

That's awesome. I wish I had balls like that...

 

[nabs86]

I had one interview where on interviewer pretty much ignored me. He sat on the far end of the table and only asked me one question. The other one laughed at me (not with me) and said I was very idealistic and childishly enthusiastic, but then later told me I was mature and poised. So I'm not entirely sure what that means.

Result: Waitlisted