Is this interview question common?

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Is this interview question common?

"What is one thing you would have me tell the admissions committee about you"

If my interviewer does not ask this, how can I still add this on?

"There is one more thing I would like to bring to the attention/expand upon to/for the committee"?

 

[sadpremed121]

I had a question like “is there anything else that isn’t on your application that you want the committee to know”. I said no since I felt like I presented everything I wanted to in my app already and my interviewer said it’s ok if we don’t have anything else.

 

[Moko]

I usually do ask a variant of that question to give applicants the fairest shake at admissions. However, if there is something truly important that we need to know about you that (for some reason) was not in your application, then you should incorporate this into your answers for questions like "tell me about yourself", "why medicine" etc.

 

[Schwifty]

Is this interview question common?

"What is one thing you would have me tell the admissions committee about you"

If my interviewer does not ask this, how can I still add this on?

"There is one more thing I would like to bring to the attention/expand upon to/for the committee"?

I'm not sure if its a "common" question, but it could be asked. During my interviews I was never asked this question specifically, but was asked things along the lines of "is there anything you would like to add that we haven't talked about."

If you aren't asked if you want to add anything else, you can try to use the Q&A portion of your interview to drive the conversation towards your strong points. At the end of one of my interviews I felt like we had not covered a few strong points of my application, so at the end of the interview when asked if I had any questions, I asked questions about topics that were strong points in my application that we had not covered (i.e. asking volunteer or research opportunities) and then when the interviewer answered I replied with something a long the lines of "Oh thats good to hear, I ask because I have been doing research on XYZ at my undergrad school, and would like to purse opportunities like that in med school, blah blah blah" then dive into that topic with the interviewer for a few minutes. Obviously I'm simplifying this, but its just about being able to guide the conversation in a way that makes you look good and hits all your strong points. Also, I was accepted to that school I was talking about, so that strategy did work for me.

 

[Cornfed101]

I usually do ask a variant of that question to give applicants the fairest shake at admissions. However, if there is something truly important that we need to know about you that (for some reason) was not in your application, then you should incorporate this into your answers for questions like "tell me about yourself", "why medicine" etc.

What kinds of things do you need to know? Are you referring to red flags? new activities?

Edit: I just feel like my application pretty well sums up my life... is that not normal?

 

[Goro]

Is this interview question common?

"What is one thing you would have me tell the admissions committee about you"

If my interviewer does not ask this, how can I still add this on?

"There is one more thing I would like to bring to the attention/expand upon to/for the committee"?

Very common question