Interview Classes

[FreeRadicals]

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Hey guys,
Do guys think it is worth investing in some med school interview classes? The mock interviews are pretty expensive, but might be worth it. (4 mock interview sessions for $1100; 30min mock interview with 30min of feedback per interview session)
Thanks.

 

[beattheprocess]

Hey guys,
(4 mock interview sessions for $1100; 30min mock interview with 30min of feedback per interview session)
Thanks.

Extra 0 on that?

 

[FreeRadicals]

Extra 0 on that?

No, the price is eleven hundred dollars; one thousand one hundred ($1100).

 

[TheBiologist]

Extra 0 on that?

why become a doctor when you can become a con artist!

@FreeRadicals don't do it, see if ur ugrad has mock interviews

 

[jarednogeek]

hell no I'll give you mock interviews for $1050 no need to pay that much! Just kidding but that's way too much, many colleges offer free mock interviews. And if not just get a friend to interview you. that amount of money is a scam for sure.

 

[Goro]

Hey guys,
Do guys think it is worth investing in some med school interview classes? The mock interviews are pretty expensive, but might be worth it. (4 mock interview sessions for $1100; 30min mock interview with 30min of feedback per interview session)
Thanks.

No. Join the Speech club or debate team, or take so.e acting lessons or classes.

And visit your school's career counseling center.

 

[faerie62]

Holy moly that’s overpriced. Don’t do it
Look for free resources at your university, or even friends in business classes who have a lot of experience with interviewing

 

[907914]

Unfortunately, no one can teach you how to be a people person. And for $1100, you can buy yourself a bow flex and get more of a confidence boost than 4 hours with someone that think their time is worth $275 an hour.

 

[Osteosaur]

Between your career center and premed advisor your undergrad should have all the resources you need to practice. That's what your tuition is paying for.

I'd be a little hesitant to call every medical school application advising service a con. Its not a something undergrads need, but for non-trads or people who have taken multiple gap years they can be worth the money (especially if you've been working and can pay). Otherwise you can go crawling back to your undergrad, but are you going to get the same level of treatment as a young alumni without a big bank account? Probably not.

 

[wholeheartedly]

As noted, use the school's career center and your academic advisors. Other options include any professors you feel comfortable with, your rec letter writers, any prof in a field that does lots of interviewing, ie business, any docs you've shadowed especially academic ones.

In regards to the nontrad situation, hopefully most of us have done a decent amount of interviewing for whatever we've been doing when not applying to med school. However, if you're a nontrad and need more, don't rule out your alma mater's career center. Some will still do this free, others will charge a modest fee (like $50-$100) to grant you access career services if you're years out from graduating or at a new school doing a postbac without enough credits to incur the student fee that generally covers these services.

Best pro tip:

You won't know unless you ask/try (this goes for all sorts of premed things)

Best interview tip: Answer the question being asked! Whether it's debating politicians or interviews, nothing is more frustrating than people who don't answer the question.

 

[FreeRadicals]

Thanks for all the input; I'll definitely reach out to my university.

 

[Goro]

Oh my lord, you do not know how many freakin' times I say this. So many applicants stumble at interviews by getting a question then trying to figure out what the interviewer wants, creating an answer, instead of simply just answering the freakin' question.

Just want to reiterate this. We routine reject people who refuse to answer questions, but who feel compelled to deliver a canned answer, to to spin, or try to tell us what they think we want to hear.