aww thanks nyan, and everyone else too!
i was sooooo impressed with OSU today! I still have yet to hear back from Penn, but if I were to get accepted to both, I will have A LOT of soul searching to do.
i'm sure some of you with interviews coming up next week is anxious to get any bit of good detail so i'm going to try and get as much in before i have to board my connection flight! this year they've cut back to interviewing much fewer students than ususal so if you have an interview, your odds are pretty good.
as for the interview itself, i walked in and the dean of student affairs was one of my interviewers (2 interviewers who have looked at your file and took notes/questions they want to ask you). first thing she said to me was "hi minnerbelle, i have been
really looking forward to meeting you!" and i was like "uhh.... i'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing..."
and she said that she's looked through my file and that she only put down one comment, and she busted out her comments sheet which said "outstanding!"
😀
they grilled me with really tough questions though! they were followed with "excellent answer!" so i think i did pretty well.
they asked about H1N1. i don't think it will be fair for me to disclose the curveball question they threw at me about it for other interviewees who don't read sdn, but i would know it well. it was by pure stroke of luck that i knew the answer to that question (i don't think they expected me to know).
they also asked me to list different types of things i could do with my vet degree beyond the things that i had experience in. i listed a bunch, and then i was like "well there's sooo many things you can do, because any place you have animals, you pretty much have an opportunity for a vet," which was followed up with "so, are you saying that vets always work with animals?"
and i was like "uhhh.... no, no no, there are career paths where you don't actually work with an animal physically in front of you... for instance a public health vet wouldn't necessarily be working with animals hands on"
THEN, she goes "ok, so tell me what a typical day of a vet who doesn't work with animals might be like..."
...
so i just kind of brought up a scenario of a public health vet who might work for like the CDC, and what i thougth they would do during their work day. they seemed to be pretty happy with my answer. phew... (i kinda pulled that one out of my donkey).
they also asked me what i thougth was the most pressing issue that will crop up for vets in the future.
i also heard from other interviewees that with other interviewers they weren't asked very much at all.
and so on... i'll fill out a more extensive thing on interview feedback, but i gotta go!
GOOD LUCK for those interviewing next week. I'm sure you'll all do
👍👍👍.
