Interview question, am I denied?

[yummytummy]

---

Members do not see this ad.

The interviewer was a med student and he kept on emphasizing that my VR score is extremely low and asked me in the end, what would you do if you get denied? Is that an autodenial?

 

[brooklynblunder]

you mean "what would you do if you didn't get in"

i think people frequently get that question or variations of it

 

[yummytummy]

Do they usually get denied when they get asked that?

 

[BBender716]

Nope. Got asked that question at one place and wound up getting straight up accepted. Go figure

 

[Ponger]

It's a good (and common) question to poke at an interviewee's resolve or fore-thought. If your immediate response is "go into nursing" then you're probably willing to easily give up on something you've worked at for 4 years. Also, if your answer "I dunno" then you may not have thought through all of your options and further may not have thought through fully what a career in medicine entails. I.e. almost a decade more of schooling and training.

It's more of a 'keep you on your toes' question than anything.

 

[longhorn09]

The interviewer was a med student and he kept on emphasizing that my VR score is extremely low and asked me in the end, what would you do if you get denied? Is that an autodenial?

Lizzy once said that she asked this question to testify your real intentions to be a doc. It does not mean an autodenial.

 

[JonathanMD]

The interviewer was a med student and he kept on emphasizing that my VR score is extremely low and asked me in the end, what would you do if you get denied? Is that an autodenial?

It's a common question.

The correct answer is, "I would work on my ECs, boost my GPA, and retake the MCAT, if necessary. I would apply again and again, until I got accepted."

👍

 

[bannie22]

The correct answer is, well, I can always go to another school 😛

So long, sukkkkaaar 😀

I kid!

 

[longhorn09]

The correct answer is, well, I can always go to another school 😛

So long, sukkkkaaar 😀

I kid!

The correct answer is :
I will commit suicide if you dont take me!😡

 

[bannie22]

The correct answer is :
I will commit suicide if you dont take me!😡

This works well too.
Shows your commitment to the cause.

👍

Remember to give a fierce growl.

 

[mangomadness]

haha no, they ask that often. they just want to see that you're committed to it. now, if you replied with something like, "oh, no biggie, i might just try my hand at law"...that could be a problem. lol

 

[Tutmos]

That was actually a formal secondary question on my app.

My answer, continue volunteering, focus more on work to save up for tuition and apply more broadly next year.

 

[Knitress]

No worries, they asked me that too.

To make matters worse, I started talking about my what-if-medicine-NEVER-works-out plans without mentioning the obvious cycles of reapplying. Didn't occur to me that's what they were after until after the interview. Talk about a tense two weeks seeing if I'd completely shot myself in the foot...

 

[BBender716]

The correct answer is :
I will commit suicide if you dont take me!😡

That makes them liable 😉

Uh oh. Do I see a counter-ethical question for an applicant to pose to a hard case interviewer?

 

[longhorn09]

No worries, they asked me that too.

To make matters worse, I started talking about my what-if-medicine-NEVER-works-out plans without mentioning the obvious cycles of reapplying. Didn't occur to me that's what they were after until after the interview. Talk about a tense two weeks seeing if I'd completely shot myself in the foot...

Dont worry, I did the same thing.

 

[BerlinDude]

I got asked that question by the Dean of Admissions at one school and wound up getting flat-out rejected. I gave the standard answer. My stats were way way above this school (this was my state school).

 

[Morsetlis]

I got asked that question by the Dean of Admissions at one school and wound up getting flat-out rejected. I gave the standard answer. My stats were way way above this school (this was my state school).

I don't think that would be the only reason...

 

[bannie22]

That makes them liable 😉

Uh oh. Do I see a counter-ethical question for an applicant to pose to a hard case interviewer?

Defensive medicine my friend.

If longhorn does die, its really the fault of the other schools that he applied to and did not accept him. 😀

 

[BerlinDude]

I don't think that would be the only reason...

Uh, it's not a 'reason' at all, but the fact that they ask means the interviewer is thinking about your rejection.

 

[Antibodies]

Uh, it's not a 'reason' at all, but the fact that they ask means the interviewer is thinking about your rejection.

They ask to see what your reply is. The interviewer wants to see that you are prepared for the interview. That you did the reading and practiced your skills. Nobody wants to see that you are winging it because it shows you are not interested in the school.

 

[DrSmooth]

I answered "international development" without hesitation. I was accepted.

 

[MaryLennox]

i got this question at both schools i got accepted to. and now that i think of it, i don't think i got asked it at the one school i interviewed at and didnt get accepted to! (instead they told me how great they thought I was . . . guess I wasnt that great 🙄) go figure.

 

[ThatQuestionGuy]

Don't they usually preface this with "If you couldn't be a doctor..."? Seems like saying you'd reapply again and again is sidestepping their answer

 

[Practitioner]

This cycle I got asked "if you couldn't be a doctor and had to choose another career path, what would it be". First time applied got asked if I wasn't accepted and I said I would seek advice on weakest part of application and work on that.