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Well, I'm sitting at La Guardia airport right now waiting for my flight. It's 3pm, and my flight isn't until 8:20pm... man I'm bored!
The day started at 8am. Some people showed up early at around 7'ish, and were able to interview earlier. I suggest getting there as close to 8 as possible because you're going to end up waiting until 10:30am anyway for everyone to finish interviewing. There were around 15 interviewees.
I'm guessing that some faculty are required to interview students, so they come in the morning before they have to work, bang out an interview, and leave. I think I lucked out because I interviewed with the admissions director, and she ended up doing the Q&A and tour afterwards.
It was a very laid-back interview -- no stress at all. There was a list of questions that she asked, and would periodically ask me to explain in more detail. The hardest question was the "tell me about a time when you had to make an ethical decision." "Why should we accept you to our school?" was a difficult question too.
After the interview, there was a Q&A session. If you're a guy, you will realize that the girls dominate the Q&A because I felt like I couldn't get a question in at all. Thankfully, there was a guy from Canada that asked about the NYU myths spread around SDN concerning the 20% drop-out rate, difficulty getting patients, and crappy board scores. The director said that none of those are true and did a very good job explaining how the school works.
After the Q&A, we got a tour of the school. The NYU facilities are VERY nice. Almost everything was new, and I saw like a bajillion flat-screened LCD screens on every wall, ceiling, and sim-lab chairs during the tour.
Lunch, with the D-students, was held in the cafeteria in the basement floor. It was a very nice place, and the food was amazing! This is even more for me because my last interview was at VCU, and the food and cafeteria at VCU was unfortunately pretty bad.
Overall, the day went very well, and the school was amazing. The students really seem to like it there. I would love to go there, but my only concern in tuition and cost of living. One of the D2's told use that he splits a 2 bedroom apartment (3 blocks away from the school) with 2 other people, and the total rent is $4300 a month, not including utilities. 😱
The day started at 8am. Some people showed up early at around 7'ish, and were able to interview earlier. I suggest getting there as close to 8 as possible because you're going to end up waiting until 10:30am anyway for everyone to finish interviewing. There were around 15 interviewees.
I'm guessing that some faculty are required to interview students, so they come in the morning before they have to work, bang out an interview, and leave. I think I lucked out because I interviewed with the admissions director, and she ended up doing the Q&A and tour afterwards.
It was a very laid-back interview -- no stress at all. There was a list of questions that she asked, and would periodically ask me to explain in more detail. The hardest question was the "tell me about a time when you had to make an ethical decision." "Why should we accept you to our school?" was a difficult question too.
After the interview, there was a Q&A session. If you're a guy, you will realize that the girls dominate the Q&A because I felt like I couldn't get a question in at all. Thankfully, there was a guy from Canada that asked about the NYU myths spread around SDN concerning the 20% drop-out rate, difficulty getting patients, and crappy board scores. The director said that none of those are true and did a very good job explaining how the school works.
After the Q&A, we got a tour of the school. The NYU facilities are VERY nice. Almost everything was new, and I saw like a bajillion flat-screened LCD screens on every wall, ceiling, and sim-lab chairs during the tour.
Lunch, with the D-students, was held in the cafeteria in the basement floor. It was a very nice place, and the food was amazing! This is even more for me because my last interview was at VCU, and the food and cafeteria at VCU was unfortunately pretty bad.
Overall, the day went very well, and the school was amazing. The students really seem to like it there. I would love to go there, but my only concern in tuition and cost of living. One of the D2's told use that he splits a 2 bedroom apartment (3 blocks away from the school) with 2 other people, and the total rent is $4300 a month, not including utilities. 😱
