Did anyone have a BAD interview?

[AsianDBD]

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Been to ECU and Case so far and both were very conversational. How was it at other schools?

 

[AmpedUp]

lol I don't think someone would post in this thread or any thread if they had a bad interview experience. The general consensus is that people are confident that their interview went well. I guess we find out if we all did well in December...

I've interviewed at ASDOH and UMKC thus far. Both went well. I wasn't asked a question that I couldn't answer squarely and maturely. I'm sure they got to know me better after the interview, since I felt I gave them the necessary information to know who I am as a person.

 

[dentalWorks]

I'll let you know Dec 1st 🙂

 

[aelian]

lol I don't think someone would post in this thread or any thread if they had a bad interview experience. The general consensus is that people are confident that their interview went well. I guess we find out if we all did well in December...

A challenge, eh? Haha. I'll go for it. My interview last year I had with Baylor. I'm 43.78 percent confident my fail of an interview was the reason I didn't get in. In short...I sucked. Long story, I sucked terribly. But I'll gladly disclose the experience. Let me see. Started out the day getting slightly lost due to my GPS. Showed up 5 minutes before the start of the interview but only because I ran like hell from the garage. Got to the interview. The receptionist was explaining the day to me. Obviously I was spacing off. Otherwise she wouldn't have needed to ask me if I was still with her. Oh, and boys and girls, get a good night's rest. Take a sleeping pill or get a crackhead to knock you out for a cheeseburger...getting two hours of rest is not conducive to your interview. Anyway, start of my first out of three interviews...really young lady. Kinda cute in the "you have a Ph.D and you don't look very homely way." It's irrelevant but thought I would mention it. She sucked at answering my questions, didn't seem very good at holding a conversation, and her handshake was limp and her hand cold. Why are you on the admission's committee!? Interview two...again, I was asked if I was zoning off. Apparently one of my eyeballs attempted to secede from my skull. Also, if you've seen my predent stats, you'll see that they suck. And the interviewer attacked me. And, even though, in my opinion, I have a legitimate response to defend myself, I just stood there and took it. I failed to articulate anything. Failed to push myself as a worthy candidate. It was like chess and all my pieces were going down. Interview 3. Somehow the topic of religion and politics came up and I was faced with staying neutral and safe or "opinionated." Interviews over, time for LUNCH TIME!!! Paying for food. Short ten cents for food. Bumming 10 cents from lady behind me who was probably a faculty member. Embarrassing. Time to eat. Oh no, I'm too busy talking and thus 5 minute lunch time... End of the day and time to say goodbye to interviewer...again, limp handshake on interviewer's behalf. Shake like a man, you petite woman, you! It completely threw off my confidence. Walking out the door, I could just sense the disappointment. A failure. Burn the application! Needless to say, Baylor hasn't invited me back. I'm sorry Baylor, I won't suck again. Take me back!!!

 

[Baylor2011]

Hahah, what a great (however sad) story...sounds like a rough day to me 🙁

 

[AmpedUp]

@ aelian.

Ouch! I would've hated myself after your experience. I hope things go well for you this time around.

but your stats aren't too bad...you have a killer DAT score. I'm sure you'll get in somewhere!

Anyway, thanks for sharing. At the interviews I've attended, people are usually mum on their interview experience - many just say their interview went well and that's that. Good to see some honest people around here.

 

[aelian]

@ aelian.

Ouch! I would've hated myself after your experience. I hope things go well for you this time around.

but your stats aren't too bad...you have a killer DAT score. I'm sure you'll get in somewhere!

Anyway, thanks for sharing. At the interviews I've attended, people are usually mum on their interview experience - many just say their interview went well and that's that. Good to see some honest people around here.

Yeah, it is something I really regret. Not because it was that bad (I had a few shining moments in the interview) but because there was a lot of things that I could have done better when I think of it now. Going in, with my stats, I was the underdog. And I had the perfect opportunity to make myself look like gold but instead came off lackluster. I could have done a better job defending myself as a worthy candidate or done a better job of putting my passion for dentistry into words. But thanks AmpedUp and I do think it will go better. I've obsessed over it for a year. Played it over and over in my head. Now...to get the actual interview. 🙁

And thanks for enjoying my misery, Baylor2011, you jerk. 😀 I hope your interviews are going well.

 

[Baylor2011]

Hahah, I'm sorry - just the way you told the story made me laugh, I was in no way laughing at the turn of events that happened to you, that's awful...I would wish that on nobody! Hope you get another shot at it 😉

 

[aelian]

Hahah, I'm sorry - just the way you told the story made me laugh, I was in no way laughing at the turn of events that happened to you, that's awful...I would wish that on nobody! Hope you get another shot at it 😉

Haha. I'm just messing with you, bud. I usually do everything way better the second time around so we'll see. 🙂

 

[dentalWorks]

aelian,

thats one hell of an epic interview. But thats okay, I bet you learned alot from that experience.

This had me cracking up so baddd:
"A failure. Burn the application! Needless to say, Baylor hasn't invited me back. I'm sorry Baylor, I won't suck again. Take me back!!!"

LMAO