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Are details recounted by letter writers ever brought up during an interview? I know my application well, but I could see this being a wildcard.
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Why use their letter if they have negative things to say about you?My interviewer read a couple of segments from my LoR and asked me to explain why it said I had "poor interpersonal skills".
In retrospect I'm really grateful because the person who wrote that spontaneously offered to write me one for this cycle too.
These are letters of evaluation.Why use their letter if they have negative things to say about you?
Since the right to see them is waived, the applicant doesn't know the content.
I hope you understand that this is somewhat of a fatal flaw in your mission to become a physician and that besides hiding it from admissions committees, you're taking steps to understand why you came across this way and how to fix it. Poor interpersonal skills make poor physicians. Fact.My interviewer read a couple of segments from my LoR and asked me to explain why it said I had "poor interpersonal skills".
In retrospect I'm really grateful because the person who wrote that spontaneously offered to write me one for this cycle too.
Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.I hope you understand that this is somewhat of a fatal flaw in your mission to become a physician and that besides hiding it from admissions committees, you're taking steps to understand why you came across this way and how to fix it. Poor interpersonal skills make poor physicians. Fact.
Are details recounted by letter writers ever brought up during an interview? I know my application well, but I could see this being a wildcard.
I hope you understand that this is somewhat of a fatal flaw in your mission to become a physician and that besides hiding it from admissions committees, you're taking steps to understand why you came across this way and how to fix it. Poor interpersonal skills make poor physicians. Fact.
They were brought up in some of my interviews (usually making generic positive comments about the letters), but I did have one interview where I had a lengthy discussion about the contents of one of the letters.
Haha ok good luck then with the reapp. But interviewers won't care about that if you're a social weirdo at interviews. Plenty of functional people to pick from, so be carefulMy primary interest is forensic pathology.
Are details recounted by letter writers ever brought up during an interview? I know my application well, but I could see this being a wildcard.
Interesting. Was it fact-based or more about your perspective?
I ask mostly because a letter writer shared her letter with me after she submitted it and she told a story that I remember somewhat differently. I don't think it will matter for that case, but it has me curious what could come up elsewhere.
The whole thing basically revolved around comments about my social skills.
Well that certainly sounds awkward for anyone, with or without good social skills.
You'd think the interviewer could have thought of a more graceful way to evaluate that aspect of you. (I wouldn't be surprised if they were lacking in that area, too.)