Most irritating fellow interviewee...

[Cat's Meow]

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At that same school, there was this interviewee who kept on blabbing about how "this is my last interview."

She just wouldn't stop bragging the whole afternoon!

 

[constructor]

yeah, i decided a long time ago that i ****ing hate the typical annoying pre-meds. i really hope they change during and after medical school for everyone's sake.

 

[kikkoman]

At one school (a top 5), the admissions staff told us we could wait in the medical students' computer lounge ahead of lunch.

There were a bunch of male medical students in there talking about how Condolezza Rice was "hot," especially compared to Madeline Albright. They said Rice was "worth doing."

Disguisting 👎

lol - that's hilarious!

 

[deleted50541]

i drop the f-bomb quite a bit in my day to day talk (basically I sound like i'm from ****in long mutha ****in island). I really have to be careful when i'm at interviews.

I dropped a few f***s during some downtime at an entire interview. Fortunately, I caught myself quick enough and realized that this was not the time nor place. I was just so nervous that I didn't notice what was coming out my mouth.

 

[ColoMD]

Like it or not, these same people WILL end up in your class no matter where you end up going. It will take a lot of restraint over your next four years to not want to kick them in the face on a regular basis.

On the upside, it's good practice in tolerance that you'll need when you have those "special" patients down the road.

 

[Cerberus]

Uh-oh. So, uh, where was this (asks the Pomona student)?

Not any of the schools you applied to (judging by your MDApplicants profile)

 

[Cerberus]

At one school (a top 5), the admissions staff told us we could wait in the medical students' computer lounge ahead of lunch.

There were a bunch of male medical students in there talking about how Condolezza Rice was "hot," especially compared to Madeline Albright. They said Rice was "worth doing."

Disguisting 👎

You are such a tool/troll/fake.

 

[Medikit]

At one school (a top 5), the admissions staff told us we could wait in the medical students' computer lounge ahead of lunch.

There were a bunch of male medical students in there talking about how Condolezza Rice was "hot," especially compared to Madeline Albright. They said Rice was "worth doing."

Disguisting 👎

I don't know how you survive posting here, you should come by irc sometime

 

[Cat's Meow]

You are such a tool/troll/fake.

Look who's talking.

And BTW--I am being dead serious. If you don't think that there are immature med students out there who say stupid things, then you're pretty naive.

 

[Cerberus]

Look who's talking.

And BTW--I am being dead serious. If you don't think that there are immature med students out there who say stupid things, then you're pretty naive.

I think you need to develop a little thicker skin if you plan to survive in the real world.

 

[DrThom]

At one school (a top 5), the admissions staff told us we could wait in the medical students' computer lounge ahead of lunch.

There were a bunch of male medical students in there talking about how Condolezza Rice was "hot," especially compared to Madeline Albright. They said Rice was "worth doing."

Disguisting 👎

Is there joy in your life?

 

[Cat's Meow]

Is there joy in your life?

😕

 

[krelian]

I think Condolezza Rice is hot 😀 . Why not give credit when credit is due 👍 .

Anyhow, it's funny how we're all ragging on other premeds. Has it ever occurred to you that you yourself could be friggin' annoying? It seems only CarlosMielefan realizes this, lol 😛 . Everyone claims to be different from the "typical premed", but if this is true, then who actually comprises the annoying premed group that we keep dissing?

I would think that the percentage of SDN people that are annoying at interviews would be higher than that for the overall premed population. I'm sure I can be fallible and annoying, as it's hard to please everyone and make them your friends 😍 .

 

[DrThom]

😕

You just seem so unhappy about EVERYTHING

I was just asking if there are things in your life you can be happy about.

 

[DrThom]

I think Condolezza Rice is hot 😀

She's no Janet Reno...

😍 😍 😍 Ah, Janet... 😍 😍 😍

 

[Cat's Meow]

You just seem so unhappy about EVERYTHING

I was just asking if there are things in your life you can be happy about.

At least I have my health 👍 🙂 😀 😉 🙄 😎

But I still don't think that Condi is "worth doing." But I am a girl, so I don't know how guys feel.

 

[Cat's Meow]

I think Condolezza Rice is hot 😀 . Why not give credit when credit is due 👍 .

Anyhow, it's funny how we're all ragging on other premeds. Has it ever occurred to you that you yourself could be friggin' annoying? It seems only CarlosMielefan realizes this, lol 😛 . Everyone claims to be different from the "typical premed", but if this is true, then who actually comprises the annoying premed group that we keep dissing?

I would think that the percentage of SDN people that are annoying at interviews would be higher than that for the overall premed population. I'm sure I can be fallible and annoying, as it's hard to please everyone and make them your friends 😍 .

🙁 😡 👎

Please don't hate!

 

[Cat's Meow]

I think you need to develop a little thicker skin if you plan to survive in the real world.

But I don't want to be a reptile like you!

 

[Cat's Meow]

She's no Janet Reno...

😍 😍 😍 Ah, Janet... 😍 😍 😍

I don't like Janet Reno. She scares me 🙁

 

[Cat's Meow]

I don't know how you survive posting here, you should come by irc sometime

What is irc? 😕 😕 😕

 

[wendywellesley]

At least I have my health 👍 🙂 😀 😉 🙄 😎

But I still don't think that Condi is "worth doing." But I am a girl, so I don't know how guys feel.

i'm a girl and i think coni is worth doing.

in all seriousness- boys will be boys i guess, their maturation rate is slower than ours 😉
stupid boy comments like that are better left ignored or laughted at.

 

[bjackrian]

Not any of the schools you applied to (judging by your MDApplicants profile)

Whew. Good to hear. 🙂

 

[acidhouse303]

janet went to my undergrad. she was a chem major in evil baker lab. she worked at one of the dining halls and didnt get very much action 🙁
its interesting that they are both never married and dont have families. cat's meow, why post 4 times in a row when you can just ask all your questions in one post? anyway i aint sippin on any hator-ade 2nite. cerberus, where in LI are u from?

 

[Cat's Meow]

janet went to my undergrad. she was a chem major in evil baker lab. she worked at one of the dining halls and didnt get very much action 🙁
its interesting that they are both never married and dont have families. cat's meow, why post 4 times in a row when you can just ask all your questions in one post? anyway i aint sippin on any hator-ade 2nite. cerberus, where in LI are u from?

I think of many things as afterthoughts 🙂

 

[krelian]

🙁 😡 👎

Please don't hate!

Maybe you're being uptight, but my post wasn't directed at you. It was a general post directed to people who have posted in this thread, including me. Just wanted to point out that we could be the very people that we are mocking.

Btw, Cat's Meow, you should try to group all your consecutive posts into 1 post, rather than post several times in a row.

 

[EllieElle]

There was this one dude from Pomona at one of my interviews and he came off as the biggest asshat. He exuded this "I am from CA look how frickin cool I am" attitude that made me want to curb kick him.

Oh Lord, I met a dude from CA (at a Northeast school) who was all into outdoorsy stuff, so I tried to start a conversation with him about hiking and rock climbing... you know, just being friendly. Big mistake- I was clearly below his notice since the East is just a giant garbage dump with poor-quality produce. He was so DOWN on the Northeast ("I'm only out here because I didn't get any interviews in California because the competition is SO much harder out there") that I wanted to smack him. He refused to acknowledge that one could rock climb, hike, and [gasp!] surf on the East Coast. Then he tried to convince me that there isn't any Granite in New Hampshire.

Asshat.

I must say, though, that all the other CA applicants I've met have been reallllly nice.

 

[DieselPetrolGrl]

Thankfully, I haven't had anyone overly irritating at my interviews. Everyone seemed so nervous that they hardly said anything at all. But interviews aren't over yet so I'm sure I'll encounter a few.

However, I do get annoyed by people who won't talk to me when I try to break the ice. They act like having a friendly conversation will somehow affect their chances of admission as if I'm probing for info to sabotage them. Does anyone else know what I'm talking about?

i know what you mean..i think i got shushed because i commented on the greenry by the ER on the tour...like " DONT YE TALK AND DRAW ATTENTION TO US SCUMY PIRATE CHICK!"

i wonder if i wear my pirate patch then maybe if there is a sdn on the interview they will recognize me and treat me better 🙁

 

[DieselPetrolGrl]

I don't like Janet Reno. She scares me 🙁

omg i think miami in anti reno since that whole elian thingie a few yrs bk..i lived here and i still dont know what that was all about ..except it involved a boy-traffic jams - rallies - and mickey mouse ..throw in a cute puppy in there somewhere.....point is this is no reno zone 🙁

 

[Dr Turninkoff]

Oh Lord, I met a dude from CA (at a Northeast school) who was all into outdoorsy stuff, so I tried to start a conversation with him about hiking and rock climbing... you know, just being friendly. Big mistake- I was clearly below his notice since the East is just a giant garbage dump with poor-quality produce. He was so DOWN on the Northeast ("I'm only out here because I didn't get any interviews in California because the competition is SO much harder out there") that I wanted to smack him. He refused to acknowledge that one could rock climb, hike, and [gasp!] surf on the East Coast. Then he tried to convince me that there isn't any Granite in New Hampshire.

Asshat.

I must say, though, that all the other CA applicants I've met have been reallllly nice.

When I went to my interview at NYMC, I took a cab from the White Plains airport to the school. On the way there, the cabbie asks me if I'm from California. I say, "no, why?". He says, "Oh, I just drive a lot of kids from California that can't get into UCLA." Great way to curb my excitement. I guess all the Californians complain to the White Plains cabbies. At least someone is listening to them.

 

[CanIMakeIt]

was this at Duke 🙂

I have a GREAT one!

At one interview, the admin building was kinda hard to find. Me and a few other suits found each other and started wandering together. Eventually, we got close to the place and a friendly young man approached us and said, "You here for the medical school interviews?" And then he gave us directions to the office. Nice young man.

About half an hour later, as the day was set to begin, the nice young man appeared again. "Are we all here?" he said. And everyone kind of mumbled, because how were we supposed to know? Then he said, "Why don't we start by going around the room and saying our names, and where we're from. You start," he said, pointing to some girl.

So we got about halfway into doing that and the Director of Admissions showed up. This schmuck was just another interviewee! Another guy actually blurted out, "So wait, you're not admissions staff?" It was super annoying. And he stayed super-annoying, trying to have personal conversations with the dean, the financial aid woman, the tour guides whoever. "Great tie, is that Polo?" It was like he had to make it clear that he was more like the AdCom than the other interviewees. I hate that guy. If he's in my MS1 class, I may vomit.

 

[constructor]

hahahah, that's hilarious! people were giving me heat about calling nymc "uc valhalla" and "uc rejects" but apparently it's a well-known fact. 😉

 

[akimbo]

was this at Duke 🙂

Not at Duke. Similar experience? Or are you my arch-enemy? 😀

 

[Iwy Em Hotep]

I agree - but I also think it's stupid for adcoms to make everyone wear nametags with the our name (duh) and school listed. I know it's just meant to bring some context to a person - and to facilitate conversation - but the same goal could be achieved by listing an applicant's city and state.

I had a funny experience interviewing at Baylor last year. I graduated from UW - Seattle for undergrad, but I took a couple of classes from a local community college (Bellevue) during high school.

So naturally, my nametag at Baylor has my name, and then for my college, it reads: "Bellevue Community College."

The looks from all the Ivy League and Ivy-League-type kids were priceless. 🙂

 

[constructor]

I had a funny experience interviewing at Baylor last year. I graduated from UW - Seattle for undergrad, but I took a couple of classes from a local community college (Bellevue) during high school.

So naturally, my nametag at Baylor has my name, and then for my college, it reads: "Bellevue Community College."

The looks from all the Ivy League and Ivy-League-type kids were priceless. 🙂

damn, what an dingus school baylor is...

 

[acl3623]

it's hilarious how the annoying interviewees are getting busted on this thread!! these "uh, was that me?" responses are priceless.

 

[CanIMakeIt]

Not at Duke. Similar experience? Or are you my arch-enemy? 😀

Ha ha no I was lost finding their admissions office too..... I tried to tell the secretary where I was and she had no clue....so finally I hung up and found my own way...........

So far I have had no obnoxious experience ...........thank God....except for Duke, at all my interviews I got into conversation with the my fellow candidates quite easily ...Duke was another story altogether......

 

[superdevil]

🙁 😡 👎

Please don't hate!

Originally Posted by krelian
Btw, Cat's Meow, you should try to group all your consecutive posts into 1 post, rather than post several times in a row.

ok, guys, i haven't been on SDN much in the last few weeks, but am i the only person who thinks Cat's Meow and Psycho Doctor are the same poster?!? you know, Cat's Meow is the star-of-david-avatar Hebrew alter-ego, and PD is the chest-thumping Christian alter ego?

well, if it is just me....blow me.

 

[superdevil]

oh, i might as well make a more constructive contribution to this thread...

to single out one annoying interviewee? don't think i can do it. schools that seem to produce aloof, over-confident peeps (only in my limited experience, mind you) would be duke, notre dame, and perhaps upenn. i'd have to say i've been pretty impressed, overall, with my contemporaries though.

oh, and i HATE, i mean HATE the whole "let's put everybody's school name on their name tag" sh.t. ditto for the "schools represented today" lists in the admissions office (my school, wright state, otherwise known to other applicants as "where the hell is that?" always seemed to end up next to yale alphabetically). gee, thanks for nothing 🙄

 

[pushkin]

oh, and i HATE, i mean HATE the whole "let's put everybody's school name on their name tag" sh.t. ditto for the "schools represented today" lists in the admissions office (my school, wright state, otherwise known to other applicants as "where the hell is that?" always seemed to end up next to yale alphabetically). gee, thanks for nothing 🙄

I like it when they list applicants' schools. I went to a small liberal arts college in the midwest, and at several schools where I've interviewed, that list has helped me connect with med students who also went to my undergrad school. It really makes a difference to me to see my school represented, so those lists have been a huge help. At one school, a prof who was also an alum even looked for me in the crowd after seeing my school on the "list." He just wanted to say hi. It made the day a lot more personal for me.

 

[superdevil]

I like it when they list applicants' schools. I went to a small liberal arts college in the midwest, and at several schools where I've interviewed, that list has helped me connect with med students who also went to my undergrad school. It really makes a difference to me to see my school represented, so those lists have been a huge help.

maybe you like it because there's more of "you". what i mean by that is, i always felt like i was on an island because i was consistently the only one from a school with "state" in its name that no one had ever heard of.

over the course of my interviews, there were dozens of other schools represented which i hadn't previously heard of....and they were all "small liberal arts colleges". for a moment, just THINK about how often that 4-word phrase is said in academia and on the interview trail. lots of common ground can be found with fellow interviewees regarding small liberal arts colleges; in my case (a 17,000-student public university that, despite having an allopathic med school, is STILL totally anonymous)...well, not so much.

 

[scott858]

Interviewed at, what they kept refering to as "the Harvard of the South" and I must agree the undergrads interviewing from this school were certainly annoying. I was chatting with this pretty mellow guy from Columbia, and the undergrad bursts in with, "So what other schools have you two interviewed at?" I just shut him down with a direct look and, "Where're not doing that." I think it's the best way to handle the situation.

 

[no-see-um]

I have a GREAT one!

At one interview, the admin building was kinda hard to find. Me and a few other suits found each other and started wandering together. Eventually, we got close to the place and a friendly young man approached us and said, "You here for the medical school interviews?" And then he gave us directions to the office. Nice young man.

About half an hour later, as the day was set to begin, the nice young man appeared again. "Are we all here?" he said. And everyone kind of mumbled, because how were we supposed to know? Then he said, "Why don't we start by going around the room and saying our names, and where we're from. You start," he said, pointing to some girl.

So we got about halfway into doing that and the Director of Admissions showed up. This schmuck was just another interviewee! Another guy actually blurted out, "So wait, you're not admissions staff?" It was super annoying. And he stayed super-annoying, trying to have personal conversations with the dean, the financial aid woman, the tour guides whoever. "Great tie, is that Polo?" It was like he had to make it clear that he was more like the AdCom than the other interviewees. I hate that guy. If he's in my MS1 class, I may vomit.

This one interviewee I was with, felt it was his duty to small-talk with the Dean, and made it his priority to sit next to the Dean of the school at all times. He even pulled out a chair for him and gave some gawky gesture like, "Here have a seat".

I was like, "Way to go there gunner!"

 

[pushkin]

maybe you like it because there's more of "you". what i mean by that is, i always felt like i was on an island because i was consistently the only one from a school with "state" in its name that no one had ever heard of.

over the course of my interviews, there were dozens of other schools represented which i hadn't previously heard of....and they were all "small liberal arts colleges". for a moment, just THINK about how often that 4-word phrase is said in academia and on the interview trail. lots of common ground can be found with fellow interviewees regarding small liberal arts colleges; in my case (a 17,000-student public university that, despite having an allopathic med school, is STILL totally anonymous)...well, not so much.

But my school was in the midwest. How do you think I feel when I am surrounded by a sea of Princeton and Columbia grads, most of whom have never even heard of my school? Besides, all "small liberal arts colleges" are NOT the same. That's a stereotype that I think gets perpetuated within big universities, but it's not true. It matters to me whether ADCOMS take applicants from small midwestern towns seriously (where going to an Ivy League school for undergrad usually isn't an option to begin with, so the prestige hierarchy shouldn't apply, although I know adcoms apply it anyway), and whether a few students in the class can find my state on a map (which not all educated people can do, let me tell you!).

Although I agree, it gets pretty crass sometimes, to look around and see how many of the students are sporting big name schools on their nametags.

 

[superdevil]

But my school was in the midwest. How do you think I feel when I am surrounded by a sea of Princeton and Columbia grads, most of whom have never even heard of my school?

um, just like i do??? (my school is in ohio, fyi).

Originally Posted by pushkin
Besides, all "small liberal arts colleges" are NOT the same.

really?! wow! seriously, i know that, all i said was that it could give you some common ground with other applicants from small lib...etc, which i stand by.

fact is, we probably had a lot of the same experiences.

 

[Childe]

At one school (a top 5), the admissions staff told us we could wait in the medical students' computer lounge ahead of lunch.

There were a bunch of male medical students in there talking about how Condolezza Rice was "hot," especially compared to Madeline Albright. They said Rice was "worth doing."

Disguisting 👎

Perhaps you havent ever talked to a male before. Better get used to it ms. purity.

The rest of this thread is pretty funny

 

[Sigma]

Interviewed at, what they kept refering to as "the Harvard of the South" and I must agree the undergrads interviewing from this school were certainly annoying. I was chatting with this pretty mellow guy from Columbia, and the undergrad bursts in with, "So what other schools have you two interviewed at?" I just shut him down with a direct look and, "Where're not doing that." I think it's the best way to handle the situation.

Hmm. I always talk to other applicants about where they've been. I like to get more opinions from other people about where they've been. The more data you have, the better likely you are to make a good decision. I guess I always thought it was just helpful to share opinions.

But if someone moves into the bragging phase of where they're interviewing, then it can get annoying.

 

[lorelei]

I've actually been super impressed with my fellow interviewees. Whenever I've made any effort at all to talk to people, and sometimes even when I haven't, I've gotten to have great conversations. Wash U was the best for that; I really wished the people I went sightseeing with would end up in my M1 class wherever I end up going!

There have been a couple people who have refused to answer questions. One of my big things is health policy, and I like hearing smart people's take on the issues, so I often tell fellow interviewees that and ask what they think. Most either give some (generally fascinating) opinions, or say they don't know. A few people have told me that they wouldn't share because they don't want people stealing their ideas!

Of course I'm sure I've annoyed people by talking too much or whatever.

 

[Shaz]

After the interview day ended I was riding in a shuttle back to the airport with three other interviewees. We were all saying how we had a ton of work to do and how missing school was starting to takes its toll. Then one cocky ivy punk decides to tell me that since I'm heading back to my small liberal arts college in florida I might as well write my essays in crayon. I must say that the urge to send him flying out the door of a moving vehicle was quite hard to resist.

Oh my god, I don't know what I'd do if this happened to me. I'm a very calm guy, but certain things really tick me off. I'd love to sock him in the throat, and watch stagger around a little bit, then tell him, "They taught me that at my liberal arts college too."

 

[45408]

Although I agree, it gets pretty crass sometimes, to look around and see how many of the students are sporting big name schools on their nametags.[/QUOTE
You should be glad that you can compete with the alleged big dogs 😉

 

[Sigma]

I had a funny experience interviewing at Baylor last year. I graduated from UW - Seattle for undergrad, but I took a couple of classes from a local community college (Bellevue) during high school.

So naturally, my nametag at Baylor has my name, and then for my college, it reads: "Bellevue Community College."

The looks from all the Ivy League and Ivy-League-type kids were priceless. 🙂

I'm a post-bacc, and did my pb work at a local 4-year. My undergrad has a lot of prestige, my pb doesn't. I kept hoping my nametags would have the pb school listed just to screw with people. (They've all used my u/g school instead.)

I was at Vandy in Sept. with a group of 12. It was all brand name places except for one guy from U. Utah. Vandy nametags, like every other name tag, has your name on top, and your school name on the second line.

We were eating lunch, and I was talking to the Utah guy. We started to hit it off and he told he that he started to feel a little out of place with all the brand names. (Truly bizarre since this guy also had interviews lined up at Mayo, Harvard, and a couple other big places.) I ended up pointing to his name tag and telling him that if applicants start talking about the bottom name instead of the top name, that's probably because the top name isn't worth talking about and the interviewers will figure that out. He giggled. Hopefully, that put him at ease. He was one of the few quality applicants I've met on the trail.