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If you haven't interviewed at Ohio State yet, make sure you have detailed answers to medical questions and really sell yourself. At my "why I was rejected" phone conversation, the woman I spoke with also said they accepted 400 of 1000 applicants for an interview, and they only except 38 of 585 out-of-state applicants, so I should not be discouraged or consider my rejection as a statement of how qualified I am for school or vet med.
At my interview, they didn't ask my anything about equine veterinary medicine (which made up at least 800 of my 1200 hours of experience and it is what I want to do), and the woman I spoke with during my "why I was rejected" phone conversation told me that if the interviewers don't bring it up, then it's up to me to do so. She said that the interview should be more like a conversation than them asking you questions.
She also said that my experience looked good on paper, but that it seemed like I wasn't paying attention when I was shadowing since I couldn't sufficently answer some of the medical questions they asked (how to do a spay?, for example--I said I hadn't seen one in a while (2002, actually) and gave a general answer (anesthesia, check vitals during surgery, go in, suture necessary anatomical structures, remove uterus, suture animal up, recover animal), but apparently that wasn't good enough--just to give you an idea of what is necessary, at least for out of state applicants).
Also, they asked me about a current event, so I started to talk about avian influenza, but one of my interviewers interrupted me, and asked if I knew about anything else, and so I talked about Mad Cow Disease since I knew that was what she wanted (which was confirmed when she told me that was what she wanted), so make sure you know about Mad Cow disease too.
It really seemed like by asking me questions that I should reasonably know little about, and not asking me things I should know about, (given the info in my application and state of residence), they were really trying to find reasons to reject me, rather than reasons to accept me (which is reasonable considering the above percentages), so make sure you know a few procedures in depth, so even if you don't know the one they ask, you can do your best, and then say, "but I know a lot about x...".
I'm not trying to complain, but just give a good picture of what to expect for out-of-staters.
At my interview, they didn't ask my anything about equine veterinary medicine (which made up at least 800 of my 1200 hours of experience and it is what I want to do), and the woman I spoke with during my "why I was rejected" phone conversation told me that if the interviewers don't bring it up, then it's up to me to do so. She said that the interview should be more like a conversation than them asking you questions.
She also said that my experience looked good on paper, but that it seemed like I wasn't paying attention when I was shadowing since I couldn't sufficently answer some of the medical questions they asked (how to do a spay?, for example--I said I hadn't seen one in a while (2002, actually) and gave a general answer (anesthesia, check vitals during surgery, go in, suture necessary anatomical structures, remove uterus, suture animal up, recover animal), but apparently that wasn't good enough--just to give you an idea of what is necessary, at least for out of state applicants).
Also, they asked me about a current event, so I started to talk about avian influenza, but one of my interviewers interrupted me, and asked if I knew about anything else, and so I talked about Mad Cow Disease since I knew that was what she wanted (which was confirmed when she told me that was what she wanted), so make sure you know about Mad Cow disease too.
It really seemed like by asking me questions that I should reasonably know little about, and not asking me things I should know about, (given the info in my application and state of residence), they were really trying to find reasons to reject me, rather than reasons to accept me (which is reasonable considering the above percentages), so make sure you know a few procedures in depth, so even if you don't know the one they ask, you can do your best, and then say, "but I know a lot about x...".
I'm not trying to complain, but just give a good picture of what to expect for out-of-staters.
