Gee, acceptances after bad interviews...maybe I am just particularly hard on myself, but I got in to two schools after experiencing what I had considered to be not so much bad interviews,but rather poor representations of myself. At Wayne State, I felt I was a little flaky. For some reason, my "speech punctuation" was out of whack, so instead of ending my sentences concisely with a period, I kept trailing off, or even worse, ending them with a "I don't know...." or "you know...". I wasn't surprised at my wait-list, but last week I got the acceptance phone call. At MSUCOM, I interviewed strongly, but I felt that some of my answers were "wrong", and could see that on one interviewer's face. She asked what I would do if accepted to only MD schools. I said I'd go. She did not like that. We got into a lengthy debate on my motivations, but I held my ground and we ended up changing the subject. The discussion left a bad taste in my mouth, although I love a debate, and I thought I wouldn't get in there either. Finally, my interview at LECOM was horrible. I was tired, I yawned once, and the interviewers never even looked at me. They kept cutting me off with new questions. I managed to keep my head together and finish the old question along with answering the new, but near the end of the interview, when they interrupted me midsentence, I waited for them to finish the question, then ignored it and finished what i was saying before without acknowledging it. Then, I said "In answer to your next question,...". I tried to do it tactfully, but I got a few raised eyebrows. I was so red-faced by the end of that interview though. My point? It may seem like you are getting bad feedback during an interview, but it doesn't necessarily mean your chances are ruined. Sometimes it's a test. At my UVM interview, I passed out. I'm wait-listed there. I passed right out onto the floor after the interview, when I stood up, sprained my ankle on the way down, and I didn't get outright rejected!
