Interview Feedback Section Gone?

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profound777

profound777

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Hi,

Was prepping for an upcoming interview. It appears that the interview questions databank is missing, but is now replaced by a generic summary. Where are the individual responses now?
 
LizzyM said:
I don't know when or why the changes were made but just came here to say that those interview questions were how I discovered SDN 25 years ago! I think that some of those questions were so old that some of those who answered as applicants are now full professors!
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I'd be willing to bet a lot of people share that experience with you, me included. It appears the change has been recent because as of last week I was prepping for a different school and had full access to the responses.

Regardless of if the questions were old, they were still incredibly useful especially compared to what seems to be either copy pasted or completely AI generated summaries of the entire databank.
 
The interview question database is being re-organized as part of the school database (which includes listing secondary essay prompts). We are trying to work through schools requiring NDAs on their interview questions, if I can state a rationale for the changes.

We asked questions that made sense with in-person interviews also, like tours. As you guess, these are not as useful nowadays. How stressful were the interviews? Hopefully not so much.

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Adding, the Becoming a Student Doctor course uses secondary essay prompts to guide enrollees with pre-writing, interview prep, school research, and leadership priming (how to discuss how physicians should advocate for their communities). Adcoms are expecting this as part of mission alignment, according to the newest holistic admissions framework AAMC COA came out with. Not that they took my advice, but metrics are no longer at the center of the bullseye; mission is.

Members should have gotten a newsletter with a discount code to enroll. It also may be good for admissions ambassadors or students serving on adcoms. And it's free to anyone on FAP or who grew up in a medically underserved area (with documentation).
 
Is there any way to view the removed questions? I was using them to prep for an interview tomorrow but refreshed the page this morning and they were gone 🙁
 
b0ldlygo said:
Is there any way to view the removed questions? I was using them to prep for an interview tomorrow but refreshed the page this morning and they were gone 🙁
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you can try using archive.org then pasting the link of the interview feedback summary, it worked for the school I'm interviewing at next week
 
olofmeister said:
you can try using archive.org then pasting the link of the interview feedback summary, it worked for the school I'm interviewing at next week
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Thank you so much!! I tried that and the formatting got messed up so I'm not able to read most of the text, but I was able to decipher a few questions. Really appreciate the help, good luck on your interview!! 🙂
 
b0ldlygo said:
Thank you so much!! I tried that and the formatting got messed up so I'm not able to read most of the text, but I was able to decipher a few questions. Really appreciate the help, good luck on your interview!! 🙂
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Of course! Also that happened to me as well and it took me a while to figure out all of the questions lol
 
We pushed an update last night that seems to be the culprit - I've alerted our development team.

Edit: One new feature that got pushed is the ability to view each response again (older versions of the database had this and we brought it back). If you scroll to the bottom of the page for a school, you can access individual responses:

Here is an example: Baylor College of Medicine Individual responses | Student Doctor Network
 
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I'm actually glad nobody can find that database lol. The feedback for my school must have been at least a decade old based on the students' description of the campus!

I genuinely feel bad for anybody who used that to prep for an interview because you would have stressed yourself out for nothing...and at worst made a fool of yourself during the interview!

My words of wisdom: Get your information from REAL students who you see walking around on the campus, not from anonymous sources.
 
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