one "great" interview, one not so great interview

[Iatro]

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I recently had an interview date where the first interview was very average (and even kind of bad), whereas the seond went incredibly well. I was wondering if any sdners have shared a similar experience and if they were ultimately accepted under such circumstancesv

 

[PreMedOrDead]

Yes.

 

[BABSstudent]

I recently had an interview date where the first interview was very average (and even kind of bad), whereas the seond went incredibly well. I was wondering if any sdners have shared a similar experience and if they were ultimately accepted under such circumstancesv

Just because you feel it went great or bad doesn't really mean anything. It is all up to the person writing up the summary. Something that you think sounds good to you might be like cancer to them. Also, something that you think doesn't sound impressive can have a positive impact on the interviewer.

Example, I spent the first 30 minutes at VCU (of a 30 minute interview that ended up being a little over an hour long) talking about Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Snoqualmie Falls. The reason, that is what the interviewer wanted to talk about. I didn't care, I preferred to talk about my childhood and the Puget Sound area. The interviewer really liked me from the talk so that made a big plus for a little later in the interview when he was asking actual questions.

Another example was from my interview at Creighton. I had an interview with the assistant dean and it went okay. Then I had the student interview that I ended up dropping the F-bomb and using the word sh*ty in the same sentence. At the end, I even told my interviewer that she sounded like a doctor in the way that she tried to confront my childhood.

Ended up getting into both schools.

My advice, don't do what I did at Creighton. I beat myself up for two months about my word choice and dumb "compliment" that I gave my interviewer.

 

[Iatro]

Both are professors if that matters. Im guessing when they compare notes, they will think they interviewed two different people. Question: in my thank you letter, do you think i should explain it was my first interview (which it was, non mmi format)?

 

[JohnsonJohnson]

You could have actually had 2 great or 2 horrible interviews - you never know!

 

[mwall003]

Yes.

 

[IV Zulu VI]

I recently had an interview date where the first interview was very average (and even kind of bad), whereas the seond went incredibly well. I was wondering if any sdners have shared a similar experience and if they were ultimately accepted under such circumstancesv

I had 4 interviews that went okay, nothing spectacular and got waitlisted at all of them. One interview that went terribly and was rejected, and then most recently an interview I knew I rocked and was accepted.

 

[def1]

I thought I had 2 great interviews at one school and I ended up being rejected. And this is in Texas where almost no one gets rejected until after the match day, and at a school where I was most competitive at. So I don't think its possible to really judge how well or badly you did in an interview.

 

[MedPR]

How you feel after an interview is meaningless.

/thread

 

[PreMedOrDead]

How you feel after an interview is meaningless.

/thread

Except for that long flight home...