Now that most of you have done your interviews, lets hear some of the interview questions you can remember. If you had a particularly good answer to one or it seemed that the interviewer was impressed by your answer, lets hear how you answered the question as well.
Ive had plenty of job interviews in my life so I expect the questions to be sort of similar just dental oriented.
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Questions posted so far.
Do you have any questions about the school?
Why do you want to be a dentist?
What can you bring to the dental field?
What have you done to show that you are interested in dentistry?
So, what do you think about science?
So.. are you going to vote for Obama?
Have you ever made a mistake?
So..have you ever lived anywhere besides home when you went to college?
What's the third flat of C# major?
What job have you had that you liked the most and why? Which did you like the least?
Who was your inspiration when you were going to college?
Do you get mad? following up with Do you get sad?
Are you a perfectionist?
Why this school?
What leadership stuff have you done?
If I just explained to you what a tooth that needed a root canal was like, could you then do a root canal?
Why the low DAT score?
So ummm..you did some research. How did you get involved in that?
Give me an example of a bad decision that you took, and what were the results?
What do you think about giving back to the community?
Tell me about the other schools you interviewed with?
How do you handle your academics?
Why do you have a 16 in PAT?
Elaborate on the social life of dentists?
How do you think the school should increase diversity in the student body?
What characteristics do you wish to have in your class mates?
Tell me about a project that you initiated and how you went about working this project out?
How do you plan to finance your dental education?
What are your strengths/weaknesses?
Tell me about yourself?
How have you worked on your manual dexterity skills?
Describe a time you have shown compassion.
How do you balance your time?
What studying methods do you use?
Was there a WOW moment for you on deciding on dentistry???
Tell me why I shold pick you out of all those applicants sitting in that room? Why you? What can you bring to the table?
What have you done to prove your leadership??
Do you have a best friend? What would you do if you caught your best friend cheating on the final?
What attracted you to apply to our school?
Who is your hero and tell me why he's your hero? I answered Michael Jordan
Can you play like Michael Jordan???
Why did you switch from physical therapy to dentistry?
What other schools have you applied to? How many interviews have you gotten so far?
Do you have any questions for us?
Have you ever encountred an ethical delimma?
What was the last book you read?
Why did u decide to work rather than staying in school for an extra year?
What did u learn from shadowing your dentist?
What was the most intresting thing that you observed there?
If you dont get in this year, what would you do ?
Ive had plenty of job interviews in my life so I expect the questions to be sort of similar just dental oriented.
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Questions posted so far.
Do you have any questions about the school?
Why do you want to be a dentist?
What can you bring to the dental field?
What have you done to show that you are interested in dentistry?
So, what do you think about science?
So.. are you going to vote for Obama?
Have you ever made a mistake?
So..have you ever lived anywhere besides home when you went to college?
What's the third flat of C# major?
What job have you had that you liked the most and why? Which did you like the least?
Who was your inspiration when you were going to college?
Do you get mad? following up with Do you get sad?
Are you a perfectionist?
Why this school?
What leadership stuff have you done?
If I just explained to you what a tooth that needed a root canal was like, could you then do a root canal?
Why the low DAT score?
So ummm..you did some research. How did you get involved in that?
Give me an example of a bad decision that you took, and what were the results?
What do you think about giving back to the community?
Tell me about the other schools you interviewed with?
How do you handle your academics?
Why do you have a 16 in PAT?
Elaborate on the social life of dentists?
How do you think the school should increase diversity in the student body?
What characteristics do you wish to have in your class mates?
Tell me about a project that you initiated and how you went about working this project out?
How do you plan to finance your dental education?
What are your strengths/weaknesses?
Tell me about yourself?
How have you worked on your manual dexterity skills?
Describe a time you have shown compassion.
How do you balance your time?
What studying methods do you use?
Was there a WOW moment for you on deciding on dentistry???
Tell me why I shold pick you out of all those applicants sitting in that room? Why you? What can you bring to the table?
What have you done to prove your leadership??
Do you have a best friend? What would you do if you caught your best friend cheating on the final?
What attracted you to apply to our school?
Who is your hero and tell me why he's your hero? I answered Michael Jordan
Can you play like Michael Jordan???
Why did you switch from physical therapy to dentistry?
What other schools have you applied to? How many interviews have you gotten so far?
Do you have any questions for us?
Have you ever encountred an ethical delimma?
What was the last book you read?
Why did u decide to work rather than staying in school for an extra year?
What did u learn from shadowing your dentist?
What was the most intresting thing that you observed there?
If you dont get in this year, what would you do ?
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