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I remember reading a thread last year about certain embarrassing/funny moments during interviews. Share your story from this year so we can all have a good laugh.
 
At my BU interview.. (I was really exhausted from traveling and sleeping at my friend the night before.. i literally got 3 hrs of sleep max on the freezing wooden floor) I fell asleep 😴 in the middle of my interview . I don't know for how long.. but the interviewer accidentally kicked me .. and i jumped... popped right into a wild awake *sit up* position.
 
Louisville Interview: My phone went off during Louisville's big power point presentation on the school. Thought I turned it off, oops.

UNC Interview: Interviewer asked me if I was an Endodontist and drilled the root out of the wrong canal, what would I do to handle the situation. Said, "I would get a damn good lawyer." He laughed and then said, no... really :bang:.
 
This is not an interview but my roommate called temple a few weeks ago to verify his application. They told him that he hadn't made the secondary payment so he went on his bank account and said that he is looking at the personal check and that the money was withdrawn a while back. I think they went back and fourth for a while until my roommate said "I am looking at it right here, it's for $70 and it's clearly made out to Tufts univeristy"
 
FutureDent020 said:
Louisville Interview: My phone went off during Louisville's big power point presentation on the school. Thought I turned it off, oops.

UNC Interview: Interviewer asked me if I was an Endodontist and drilled the root out of the wrong canal, what would I do to handle the situation. Said, "I would get a damn good lawyer." He laughed and then said, no... really :bang:.
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Haha, out of curiosity, what would be a good approach to answering that question?

I'd venture doing something along the lines of correcting the decaying root and tell the patient that you also noticed some decay on the other root so you went ahead and fixed it....on the house. I don't know if thats what they would want to hear though
 
Sorry if the person in this story is reading this, ill use a different name ... but at one interview, we had to go around saying our name and how we got it, there was a girl who said "My name is Danielle, my mom liked the name and my dad said that it was fine, as long as I DON'T go by 'Dani'". Standing in front of us was the admissions coordinator, named Dani.
 
Primerdimer said:
This is not an interview but my roommate called temple a few weeks ago to verify his application. They told him that he hadn't made the secondary payment so he went on his bank account and said that he is looking at the personal check and that the money was withdrawn a while back. I think they went back and fourth for a while until my roommate said "I am looking at it right here, it's for $70 and it's clearly made out to Tufts univeristy"
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I literally LOL'd reading this one. :laugh:
 
DrDDSman said:
Haha, out of curiosity, what would be a good approach to answering that question?

I'd venture doing something along the lines of correcting the decaying root and tell the patient that you also noticed some decay on the other root so you went ahead and fixed it....on the house. I don't know if thats what they would want to hear though
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Yea, all jokes aside it actually was sort of a tough question to answer. I sat for a couple seconds thinking of the "right" answer then just decided to be honest and tell him what I thought. I told him "i would let the patient know exactly what I had just done, but assure the patient that everything would be fine and the procedure(s) would be free, for both root canals."

It's obviously a mistake that you can't go back and correct, so there is only so much you can technically do. My interviewer kind of jumped at me when i told him that I would tell the patient everything would be fine, because it's an egregious mistake. He was like, "You would tell the patient not to worry and that everything would be fine?!?! You just drilled out the wrong root!"

I mean, I'm not going to tell the patient to freak out and that my mistake is not correctable. So, too bad, see ya at your next cleaning🙂.
It was tough to read his reactions and also figure out if there was a right answer. I still think about my response.
 
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MnBucky said:
Sorry if the person in this story is reading this, ill use a different name ... but at one interview, we had to go around saying our name and how we got it, there was a girl who said "My name is Danielle, my mom liked the name and my dad said that it was fine, as long as I DON'T go by 'Dani'". Standing in front of us was the admissions coordinator, named Dani.
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:wow:
 
FutureDent020 said:
Yea, all jokes aside it actually was sort of a tough question to answer. I sat for a couple seconds thinking of the "right" answer then just decided to be honest and tell him what I thought. I told him i would let the patient know exactly what I had just done, but assure the patient that everything would be fine and the procedure(s) would be free, for both root canals. It's obviously a mistake that you can't go back and correct, so there is only so much you can technically do. My interviewer kind of jumped at me when i told him that I would tell the patient everything would be fine, because it's an egregious mistake. He was like, "You would tell the patient not to worry and that everything would be fine?!?! You just drilled out the wrong root!" I mean, I'm not going to tell the patient to freak out and that my mistake is not correctable. So, too bad, see ya at your next cleaning🙂.
It was tough to read his reactions and also figure out if there was a right answer. I still think about my response.
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Did you get into that school?
 
Futuredds2010 said:
Did you get into that school?
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Haha, NOPE! But with UNC they only fill half of the class in December and the rest (mostly in-state students) in February. So we'll know how bad of an answer it was around February.
I also re-ordered my answer so you could better understand what I actually said during the interview and what I was just thinking to myself
 
i personally think he was tricking you... if you open a tooth you have to fill all the canals in that tooth.... unless he meant that you drilled into a totally wrong tooth
 
yvl201 said:
i personally think he was tricking you... if you open a tooth you have to fill all the canals in that tooth.... unless he meant that you drilled into a totally wrong tooth
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Haha, yea, he meant that I drilled into the completely wrong tooth. While I was answering I actually asked if that ever happens cause it seemed so ridiculous. He said he knew of some cases.
 
FutureDent020 said:
Haha, yea, he meant that I drilled into the completely wrong tooth. While I was answering I actually asked if that ever happens cause it seemed so ridiculous. He said he knew of some cases.
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It does happen. I don't know why he would have been surprised by your response, that seems totally reasonable.
 
I love interview stories. I don't have anything funny...but I am enjoying these. 😀
 
FutureDent020 said:
Haha, yea, he meant that I drilled into the completely wrong tooth. While I was answering I actually asked if that ever happens cause it seemed so ridiculous. He said he knew of some cases.
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As a side-note, would it really matter that much? Obviously you wouldn't charge them for both, and I guess they have an unnecessary crown to maintain, but beyond that, does it really matter?

Oh, and if a doctor can cut off the wrong leg, I'm sure that a dentist can work on the wrong tooth
 
Near the end of one of my interviews, the interviewer asked me if I had any questions for him. I asked some questions about the school, curriculum and location that I had thought up before the interview. He answered them, and then proceeded to ask me what other questions I had. I was like... um, I just did that... but I thought up some other questions and asked them. He answered them and said "Well, we still have more time, so what other questions do you have for me?" I had NOTHING. I just started pulling things out of the air, stuff that I already knew the answer to but I didn't want to have the interview end early because I didn't have enough questions. So he answered all these questions. Then he said "We still have some more time, what other questions would you like to ask?" I couldn't even make up anything, he had already asked me for questions 4 times, and I didn't have anything left. I finally just told him that I didn't have any more questions, and he was like "well, I guess we'll just end this thing early then." I was pretty sure that meant "well, I'm just gonna move on to the next person, as they still have a chance of being accepted."

At my other interview we had to go around the table and say our name and something interesting about ourselves. One of the girls in the group said that she could do a chicken impression. The administrator asked her to do it, and she did. It was pretty good, and luckily the administrators thought it was funny and not weird. Then another person decided to showcase his Kermit the Frog voice. Pretty funny moments that lightened the mood for the rest of the day.
 
Oh boy. AHEM,


1)Columbia: i left my suit on the plane when flying to nyc... on a red eye... i ended up wearing my uncles suit which was european cut, so a) didn't fit me b) had zippers instead of buttons, and worsttttttt of all, c) was tailored so that it give its wearer an hourglass shape. i'm male. luckily, no one gave two poops... i dont think they even noticed...

2)on that note, dr. macmanus told us to call him if we had ANY questions, so I called him and asked him how columbia compares with the uc schools, my other top choices, and i thought he would appreciate my honesty (which he did). HOWEVER, i then proceed to tell my mom, who freaks out and tells me to write an email to him immediately telling him that columbias my number 1. so i freak out cuase she's freaking out and I email him, and what ensues is a back and forth conversation email mess in which he clearly demonstrates he doesn't care or even know who i am, and I'm still trying to convicne him that i really wanna go there... i should've not emailed anything bcasue when i first called him he didnt even kno who i was. thanks mom.

3) NYU: i couldnt even answer his questions. are you a good person? i dunno. whats the last good thing you did? i dunno. where do you see yourself in 10 years? beats me. it was my first interview, anyway..

4) PENN: i dont even want to get into that.... lets just say it was a continuation of #2

5) UCSF: my dad made fun of the interviewer to HIS FACE without knowing he was going to interview me.

6) UCLA: i mentioned the word God in my essay in front of possibly the most liberal interviewer i've meant. that was fun trying to extricate myself out of that situation...whops

7) maryland: asked me for my last 5 MOVIES. all i could remember was the last movie i saw (jennifers body) and i was NOT about to divulge that to an elderly man. over the course of 10 minutes, pannickign and banging my head i managed to spit out some movie titles, although i had eiher never actually seeen them or have the desire to (Spirit? Changling? Crash?? WHAT?).... i also said that i like the art in dentistry, possibly the most overused line by the look of the interviewer who proceeded to interrogate me, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR THE SAKE OF ART!??, to which i replied...nothing... then, when they asked me what i liked about their school, i totally forgot every positive detail of the school. i was sitting in quite possibly the most beauitful conference room, after having seen all of the state of the art equpiment and facilities and i totally blanked out. SO do you know what i said? I said, b/c i love the location. Baltimore is one of the scariest cities ive been too (no offense to baltimorians)... they looked at me in disbelief and asked the question again... i stood by my first answer.

i will treasure this moments...
 
mueladeljuicio said:
Oh boy. AHEM,


1)Columbia: i left my suit on the plane when flying to nyc... on a red eye... i ended up wearing my uncles suit which was european cut, so a) didn't fit me b) had zippers instead of buttons, and worsttttttt of all, c) was tailored so that it give its wearer an hourglass shape. i'm male. luckily, no one gave two poops... i dont think they even noticed...

2)on that note, dr. macmanus told us to call him if we had ANY questions, so I called him and asked him how columbia compares with the uc schools, my other top choices, and i thought he would appreciate my honesty (which he did). HOWEVER, i then proceed to tell my mom, who freaks out and tells me to write an email to him immediately telling him that columbias my number 1. so i freak out cuase she's freaking out and I email him, and what ensues is a back and forth conversation email mess in which he clearly demonstrates he doesn't care or even know who i am, and I'm still trying to convicne him that i really wanna go there... i should've not emailed anything bcasue when i first called him he didnt even kno who i was. thanks mom.

3) NYU: i couldnt even answer his questions. are you a good person? i dunno. whats the last good thing you did? i dunno. where do you see yourself in 10 years? beats me. it was my first interview, anyway..

4) PENN: i dont even want to get into that.... lets just say it was a continuation of #2

5) UCSF: my dad made fun of the interviewer to HIS FACE without knowing he was going to interview me.

6) UCLA: i mentioned the word God in my essay in front of possibly the most liberal interviewer i've meant. that was fun trying to extricate myself out of that situation...whops

7) maryland: asked me for my last 5 MOVIES. all i could remember was the last movie i saw (jennifers body) and i was NOT about to divulge that to an elderly man. over the course of 10 minutes, pannickign and banging my head i managed to spit out some movie titles, although i had eiher never actually seeen them or have the desire to (Spirit? Changling? Crash?? WHAT?).... i also said that i like the art in dentistry, possibly the most overused line by the look of the interviewer who proceeded to interrogate me, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR THE SAKE OF ART!??, to which i replied...nothing... then, when they asked me what i liked about their school, i totally forgot every positive detail of the school. i was sitting in quite possibly the most beauitful conference room, after having seen all of the state of the art equpiment and facilities and i totally blanked out. SO do you know what i said? I said, b/c i love the location. Baltimore is one of the scariest cities ive been too (no offense to baltimorians)... they looked at me in disbelief and asked the question again... i stood by my first answer.

i will treasure this moments...
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wow lol 🙂 Where did you end up getting in at?
 
During my interview at UTDB, we were doing the round the table introductions. We had introduced ourselves earlier that morning to each other and to Dr. Pierpont, but this time it was in front of the some members of the admissions committee that would be interviewing us.

So it was pretty general info...Hello, my name is such and such, and I attend XXXX University and I'm majoring in ______. Pretty much basic information right? Person in front of me is finishing up and I start to freak out a bit. By the way, speaking in front of a large group is not very fun for me. Probably because I usually tend to make a fool of myself. And that day, was no exception.

So I start to get up from my seat and I noticed that my pants are kind of sticking to my leg (was warm in the room and stress and nervousness only increase my production of "moistness" lol) So because I start to notice the pant sticking on leg thing and trying to fix that, I almost trip over the huge chair I was sitting in as I try to get up from my chair.....yeah in front of all these people and the freaking members of the admissions committee.

Luckily, no one notices my clumsiness....So I have saved myself from a possibly embarrasing moment to getting myself into one by opening my stupid mouth! "Hello, my name is XXXX, and I attend XXXX. I'm majoring in bio." So pretty standard stuff....but then I start looking around the room and notice that people have this weird look on their face, like..."and what else..." So I blurt out, really loudly and awkwardly...."AND I HAVE 2 KIDS!" 😱 What the hell was that all about! Embarrassed I start to sit down....and I managed to make myself look even more ******ed! As I'm started to sit down I remember about my wife like I thought that the other people might want to know about her, so again I quickly shoot back up and blurt out "AND MY WIFE IS A PHYSICIAN!!!" 😱 WTF!!! Why was any of that information necessary and why am I such a turd? I start looking around the room, trying to not make eye contact and I can see the faces of these people and they are all telling me......"What was that all about? What a dork!!!"

That made for a nice impression I think. Now they'll remember me for the ***** who almost fell and blurts out random things!!! And to top it off, my interviewer calls my name and we head to her office. We sit down and she says....."so you have 2 kids and you're wife is a physician. How do they feel about you going to dental school?" Luckily she used my akwardness to merge into her interview questions so I'm glad for that. :laugh:
 
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This situation was more awkward than embarrassing;

My interviewer arrives to the room where all of us are waiting and calls my name, and she proceeds to pronounce my name wrong (Matt). We then make our way to the room where the interview will take place, and I try to make small talk to which she does not reply (not a word!!). Once the interview begins, she of course asks, "why dentistry?". I answer her, and then there is a long pause of about 9 minutes (I know this because there was a clock behind her head). For 9 MINUTES she stared at my application, I thought she had feel asleep. Finally she looks up and asks, "Do you have any questions for me?" :wow: , and I was like, "um...sure".

I have never in my life been more uncomfortable, ever. I was amazed that I actually was accepted to this school. I just figured she would be a miserable cheerleader on my behalf to the admissions council.
 
Matt2010 said:
This situation was more awkward than embarrassing;

My interviewer arrives to the room where all of us are waiting and calls my name, and she proceeds to pronounce my name wrong (Matt). We then make our way to the room where the interview will take place, and I try to make small talk to which she does not reply (not a word!!). Once the interview begins, she of course asks, "why dentistry?". I answer her, and then there is a long pause of about 9 minutes (I know this because there was a clock behind her head). For 9 MINUTES she stared at my application, I thought she had feel asleep. Finally she looks up and asks, "Do you have any questions for me?" :wow: , and I was like, "um...sure".

I have never in my life been more uncomfortable, ever. I was amazed that I actually was accepted to this school. I just figured she would be a miserable cheerleader on my behalf to the admissions council.
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WOW, that might be the weirdest story I have ever heard. I can't imagine sitting there literally for 9 minutes not saying anything. I guess interviews aren't really important at that school; she probably just reports on your application. Was she writing down anything during those 9 minutes or was she just reading over your app?
 
MnBucky said:
Sorry if the person in this story is reading this, ill use a different name ... but at one interview, we had to go around saying our name and how we got it, there was a girl who said "My name is Danielle, my mom liked the name and my dad said that it was fine, as long as I DON'T go by 'Dani'". Standing in front of us was the admissions coordinator, named Dani.
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Hahaha Im pretty sure I was at that interview. Does the school start with an M?
 
Matt2010 said:
This situation was more awkward than embarrassing;

My interviewer arrives to the room where all of us are waiting and calls my name, and she proceeds to pronounce my name wrong (Matt). We then make our way to the room where the interview will take place, and I try to make small talk to which she does not reply (not a word!!). Once the interview begins, she of course asks, "why dentistry?". I answer her, and then there is a long pause of about 9 minutes (I know this because there was a clock behind her head). For 9 MINUTES she stared at my application, I thought she had feel asleep. Finally she looks up and asks, "Do you have any questions for me?" :wow: , and I was like, "um...sure".

I have never in my life been more uncomfortable, ever. I was amazed that I actually was accepted to this school. I just figured she would be a miserable cheerleader on my behalf to the admissions council.
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I had one similar, it started out (7:45am) with my file being plopped down on the desk and told that none of it had been read and that I should start from the beginning. being a non-trad to some extent I started during college yaers and told my story, I guess when it got interesting i was told to stop, and my whole application (w 5 recs and every grade examined) was read through in silence. I thought it was a test so i blurted out a bit of a character trait, something that should at least be acknowledged, well it wasn't at all, then I noticed my transcript section was being read through and that whole time im preparing myself for what i think, correction, what i know is coming as soon as it's seen..."so....what happened here with calculus, there's a few withdrawals" so i answered, "i lost those battles and i found calculus to be the most difficult course i encountered as an undergrad.

Then, at the very end, I was asked if I had any questions, which I didn't as we spoke lots about the school and research programs during the interview, so I asked "if you were aplying to schools now what would your top few school choices be?" which was answered with a combination of shrugs and NO. I laugh at it all the time, what a meaningless question.

that's how it ended

as of now, I will be that professor's student in the fall
 
Interviewer and I talked about how another dental school has only four interview dates and how there are around 80 students interviewed at each date. And the interviewer quickly calculated that and said wow that's 270 students. I corrected him and was like "320 actually." He replies, nice math, not bad for someone with a QR of 16. :laugh:
 
printer21 said:
Interviewer and I talked about how another dental school has only four interview dates and how there are around 80 students interviewed at each date. And the interviewer quickly calculated that and said wow that's 270 students. I corrected him and was like "320 actually." He replies, nice math, not bad for someone with a QR of 16. :laugh:
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Haha, that's pretty funny. Ya'll weren't talking about UNC by any chance were you? It's the only school I know of that interviews kids in blocks like that..
 
At my Michigan interview at one of the stations (they have MMI) I was talking to a professor of the school about some ethical topic. The professor was not a native speaker of English (as am I) and it is sometimes quite hard to understand different accents if you are not a native speaker. So, pretty much, over the 8 minutes allotted for the station, in completely noisy environment of 30 students and 30 interviewers talking at the same time in a small space, we were trying to understand what each one of us was trying to say.
it was something like:

"So in this scenraio I think it is unethical..."
- " What?"
"Excuse me, I didn't hear yo?"
- " Hm?"
.
.
.

Awkward and at the end of the 8 minutes the situation was not discussed at all. I said to myself: "Mmm-kay. 3 stations down, 7 to go"
 
At one of the interview, the interviewer told me that my eye look like a raccoon<in a good way i hope> and that i apply too much eye shadow. Interesting at the end of our conversation, she ask me what brand that i use :laugh:
 
At one of my school interviews, I was the last one in the group to leave, and the first one in the group to return.

My interview lasted literally 5 minutes. :scared:

(got accepted though....😛)
 
When I met my interviewer, she greeted me with a smile and told me her name. I did the same and we moved on with the interview. My interview lasted 40 min and during that time my eyes bumped into her name tag many times.

Guess what?? on my way back to the conference room, I forgot her name. ahaha even after realizing this I didnt check the list of adcoms in the package that they gave us and kept socializing with other applicants and then paying close attention to the presentation.

After presentation, we took a bathroom break and one of the adcom member tagged along with us. Me being all conversationalist, started talking to her and at the end she asked me the name of my interviewer :bang: BUSTED lol She just laughed and said "uh o u forgot the name" :uhno:
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I called my interviewer scary... to her face 🙁 I was talking to the rest of the interviewees back in our meeting room and my interviewer walked into the room to drop somebody off JUST as I was saying "She was SO scary!"... needless to say, I have not heard from that school yet. Haha. I did try to play it off though because she asked "Aw who was scary? Your student interviewer?" and I was like "YAHH!!!" hahaha... don't think I got away with it.
 
TexanGal said:
I called my interviewer scary... to her face 🙁 I was talking to the rest of the interviewees back in our meeting room and my interviewer walked into the room to drop somebody off JUST as I was saying "She was SO scary!"... needless to say, I have not heard from that school yet. Haha. I did try to play it off though because she asked "Aw who was scary? Your student interviewer?" and I was like "YAHH!!!" hahaha... don't think I got away with it.
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Did you know the person you said that to?

Did anyone else have someone ask them about the interview/questions? There were a few people that tried to get info out of me. For instance, at interviews more than one person has asked me what the interviewers asked me. They hadn't had their interview yet and they wanted to know the questions. Other students asked me questions about my interview like, "What were they like?" I was so surprised that people asked others questions like this.
 
j0hnny said:
Did you know the person you said that to?

Did anyone else have someone ask them about the interview/questions? There were a few people that tried to get info out of me. For instance, at interviews more than one person has asked me what the interviewers asked me. They hadn't had their interview yet and they wanted to know the questions. Other students asked me questions about my interview like, "What were they like?" I was so surprised that people asked others questions like this.
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haha why were u surprised? i think i talked about my interview experience everywhere i went..if you are not comfortable answering specific questions that would be completely acceptable..

and thanks yuppers, im going to opt not to visit that website haha. my life will be just fine without knowing sbd. 😀
 
My interview at Nova Southeastern:

I had found out 2 days before I had got into my top school at UW, but decided to still go to the Nova interview. I was excited and so I went out to the bar the night before my interview, met some people, had a hell of a night, and didn't end up back to the hotel until after 4am... completely drunk. Next morning, I was HUNGOVER. I walked into the lobby of the dental school, went straight into the bathroom, and hurled.
 
It was my first interview and I was extremely nervous. I had memorized the name and face of the dean so that I could make a good impression on him, however his last name was uncommon and I didn't know how to pronounce it. Low and behold, the dean was the first person to welcome us. I was able to hear how he introduced himself several times before I met him and when it was my turn, I confidently jumped up and said "good morning, Dr. ________," with a huge smile. He held onto my hand for an uncomfortably long time, stared at me, and said, "If you're trying to get into a dental school, don't call the dean by the wrong name.".... I then realized that while I pronounced the latter part of his name correctly, I said the completely wrong beginning to his name.

Needless to say, I was horrified and extremely embarrassed for the rest of the day. :smack:
 
MnBucky said:
haha why were u surprised? i think i talked about my interview experience everywhere i went..if you are not comfortable answering specific questions that would be completely acceptable..

and thanks yuppers, im going to opt not to visit that website haha. my life will be just fine without knowing sbd. 😀
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Whhaaaatt...lol. Okay, it's not bad to talk about the interview. Like "Man! I was so nervous." As long as your interviewer doesn't hear you..it's okay, I wouldn't do it though.

But it is pretty rude to ask another applicant the specific questions that the interviewer asked you. We are going for the same few seats. If someone asked you what the questions were, what would you say? I just told people that they would be different, so it's not worth talking about. But I was shocked that they asked me.

A lot of people at the interviews wanted to talk about other schools. Like, what schools did you apply to? Basically, we are here visiting a dental school, out of all the things we could talk about...why would we talk about what other schools we want to go to. I didn't think that was too bad, just weird.
 
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It was my first interview and I was extremely nervous. I had memorized the name and face of the dean so that I could make a good impression on him, however his last name was uncommon and I didn't know how to pronounce it. Low and behold, the dean was the first person to welcome us. I was able to hear how he introduced himself several times before I met him and when it was my turn, I confidently jumped up and said "good morning, Dr. ________," with a huge smile. He held onto my hand for an uncomfortably long time, stared at me, and said, "If you're trying to get into a dental school, don't call the dean by the wrong name.".... I then realized that while I pronounced the latter part of his name correctly, I said the completely wrong beginning to his name.

Needless to say, I was horrified and extremely embarrassed for the rest of the day. :smack:
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sounds like a jackass dean to me. was he all serious when he said that? haha but it did make a good story
 
j0hnny said:
Whhaaaatt...lol. Okay, it's not bad to talk about the interview. Like "Man! I was so nervous." As long as your interviewer doesn't hear you..it's okay, I wouldn't do it though.

But it is pretty rude to ask another applicant the specific questions that the interviewer asked you. We are going for the same few seats. If someone asked you what the questions were, what would you say? I just told people that they would be different, so it's not worth talking about. But I was shocked that they asked me.

A lot of people at the interviews wanted to talk about other schools. Like, what schools did you apply to? Basically, we are here visiting a dental school, out of all the things we could talk about...why would we talk about what other schools we want to go to. I didn't think that was too bad, just weird.
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the few ppl who asked specific questions usually got a response from mysel for someone near me such as "well i dont think it is fair to provide you the questions, but it was pretty laid back..etc." you cant keep the attitude that everyone is competition! now its to get into school, then to specialize or whatever, then comp for patients... noo, were future colleagues!

butttt i dont see any problem with a question like "how did it go??"
 
j0hnny said:
Whhaaaatt...lol. Okay, it's not bad to talk about the interview. Like "Man! I was so nervous." As long as your interviewer doesn't hear you..it's okay, I wouldn't do it though.

But it is pretty rude to ask another applicant the specific questions that the interviewer asked you. We are going for the same few seats. If someone asked you what the questions were, what would you say? I just told people that they would be different, so it's not worth talking about. But I was shocked that they asked me.

A lot of people at the interviews wanted to talk about other schools. Like, what schools did you apply to? Basically, we are here visiting a dental school, out of all the things we could talk about...why would we talk about what other schools we want to go to. I didn't think that was too bad, just weird.
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I remember at one of my interviews, one girl was extremely nervous about her interview. She got called up first, and when she got back she literally looked like she was going to puke, so I asked her a simple, "How do you feel?"-- as in, "please don't puke on me".

She then proceeded to tell the details of her interview to everyone in the group still waiting for their turn to interview. Literally, down to every question that they asked her. I think she thought they might change up the questions, but my interview went exactly the same way that her's did! Man, some people are chatty.
 
at one of my group interviews, i mentioned that i already interviewed at another school, at which point half of the people told me they also interviewed at the other school. eventually most of the conversation within the group turned into how that other school was so much better than this one. LOLOLOL i think i screwed everyone's chances up badly...
 
I interviewed at Louisville in October. The first guy that interviewed me talked for 10 minutes all about his son who was a 2nd year. Then asked if I had any questions, so I asked some of the usual questions. Then we were done. The second interview was with a 4th year who couldn't stop talking about my letter of rec from Dr. Gordon Christensen. Then asked if I had any questions about the school, so I asked some more about life as a student and what not. She seemed really impressed with my application. Then I had the exit interview with Dr. Babbage, and she said that the other interviewers were really impressed with me and my application. I have applied a few times, so Dr. B said I must have flown under the radar of other schools and she wasn't going to let the happen, and also said something about my father (also a dentist) is probably ready for me to take over his practice and I said yes its a possibility but that 4 years away and a lot could change. The she said "Well I hope you are reading into what I am telling..." So I am thinking well I better pack my bags for Louisville. Then on Dec 1st denied from Louisville... I have email Dr. B and others at the school asking for some kind of explaination, I have yet to hear back from any of them.
 
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