Interview Thread (Info, Advice, and Schools)

[whyadoctor]

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anyone who has already interviewed at Drexel care to share their experience?

 

[mshollywoodmd]

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[LastOneStanding]

Does anyone have any insight on the interviews at UMass Med?

Thanks! 🙂

My first interview, so take that with a grain of salt...

UMMS

First off UMMS seemed like a super-great place to go to school, Dr Mellow won the Nobel the day before I went out, the hospital has a great reputation, looks great, and handles all the Emergencies for mass outside of 495, S. New hampshire and vt, N. CT and RI (i'm into EM so that's big for me).


travel:
Live in boston, drove out, <45 minutes in light morning traffic for a 11 am arrival time for a 1 pm interiew ( they also have an earlier time slot, 9 am arrival for a 11 am interview?). Directions on web site weren't bad, it's right off the pike.

Pregame:
Showed up, walked through the front door of the hospital, wound my way back and to the left to the med school. Checked in with Brenda the Admin asst lady, who's great, really nice and happy and helpful. She snuck me into the med student lounge where i talked to a PhD student and some med students, who were playing ping pong (appently very competetive there) and pool. Someone signed me in to go online. Great people.

Introduction
Went into the confrence room at 11, two students MS2 and MS3 gushed about how much they loved UMMS, how the life was great, how worcester had stuff to do, how great the comradery was at the school (very apparent by the interactions anyway). Overview of school and history in slideshow. Dean of admissions showed up, flew through a slideshow (PP), time to ask questions. I was the only one asking anything! Sat around the table with the other 8 or so interviewees and talked, ate a nice italian lunch.

Group was split in two, saw the library, classroom (all the classes are in one room, a nice room, but wow it's different than undergrad huh), and the anatomy lab, anatomy library. Everything was simple but everything was there as well.

Interviews
We were given sheets of our interviewers during the introduction, and the students pointed us where to go. My first interviewer was a practicing doc, who hadn't had time to read my file. Talked about my life, "start from birth," he said. Nice guy, really busy that day, left the interview a bunch to be with pts. ?testing me?. Asked me several times aobut volunteering, then asked me about books, then rushed me off. Interview time 45 minutes but I doubt I spent more than 10 minutes with him. He graciously offered me more time, but said he had a feel for me.

I was late to the second interview, a researcher, but she was really laid back. Talked about mostly research with her, in fact my research years ago, that I barely remembered, in detail. I was able to shape this conversation a lot more, and it was almost an hour. It was conversational and kinda fun. 🙂

She dismissed me and that was it. I walked around campus and talked to students, who were in a daze after the first big week of testing. Everyone was really happy to be there, most said they had several acceptances but decided to go there because it was just as good as Columbia or Cornell or whatever. Overall very laid back, but frustrating when I was told "most applicants find out their status sometime before April"... ahh april, that's 7 months away! but i guess that's all part of the process.

Feel free to PM me with any Q's this didn't address...

 

[mshollywoodmd]

Very useful thread, it should remain on the first page👍 👍 👍

 

[LadyDoc07]

Any Penn suggestions?? I'm petrified because I'm not quite the Ivy student that everyone else probably is who gets an interview there.....