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That sucks jm. Sorry to hear it. Hope you have other options out there.
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jm, don't take it personally. Based on your interview history, I'd imagine they realized you might be overqualified.
I wasn't even offered an interview and I was waitlisted there last year. Weird decisions by those folks in Valhalla.
I wasn't even offered an interview and I was waitlisted there last year. Weird decisions by those folks in Valhalla.
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Hmm...I interviewed with NYMC mid-January and still haven't heard anything from them...good sign or bad sign, I'm not sure.
Sorry to hear you didn't get in. That just means you're going to go somewhere better, right??
Sorry to hear you didn't get in. That just means you're going to go somewhere better, right??
i interviewed december 2nd and just got my rejection. although it sucks that both schools i've heard back from post-interview were rejections (not exactly a boost to the ego!), i was sort of relieved as i had considered withdrawing from nymc post-interview several times b/c i had a negative impression of the school.
did anyone else have dr. wasserman as an interviewer? how anyone could make a connection with him is beyond me. i know shouldn't trash him on this board, but i really don't think my bad interview had anything to do with me!
did anyone else have dr. wasserman as an interviewer? how anyone could make a connection with him is beyond me. i know shouldn't trash him on this board, but i really don't think my bad interview had anything to do with me!
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lola---where was the other place that you got a post-interview rejection from??? that really sucks!!! i interviewed at nymc too and i kind of got a bad impression of the place and iddin't connect with the interviewer either...i decided that i don't like closed file interviews. anyways, i interviewed there on 01/14 and they said that we wouldn't hear back from them for 6-8 weeks but they said most probably 8...so i should hear back from them shortly i guess.
i got a post-interview rejection from vermont as well. and i don't believe either school thought i was overqualified (though my nymc interviewer did act like he thought i was overqualified. i would elaborate on some things he said but since i already mentioned his name, i'll refrain.) why would they interview me if they thought i was overqualified?!
i hope you hear better news from them than i did nygirl 🙂 i agree that closed file interviews can be hard, especially when the person is not really making an effort to get to know you. i mean, the guy asked me what kind of community service i did in college (graduated 6 years ago!), and basically i didn't do any although i did lots of research & played a varsity sport. in hindsight i should have made sure to say i do community service now, but he kept cutting me off so i didn't have the opportunity to explain.
i hope you hear better news from them than i did nygirl 🙂 i agree that closed file interviews can be hard, especially when the person is not really making an effort to get to know you. i mean, the guy asked me what kind of community service i did in college (graduated 6 years ago!), and basically i didn't do any although i did lots of research & played a varsity sport. in hindsight i should have made sure to say i do community service now, but he kept cutting me off so i didn't have the opportunity to explain.
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Lola,
I had Dr Wasserman last year. The old bag told me I was "digging my own grave" when I validated my positive stance re: euthanasia.
I had Dr Wasserman last year. The old bag told me I was "digging my own grave" when I validated my positive stance re: euthanasia.
ha! that's funny, shamthis 🙂
i dug my grave on the euthenasia question as well. he told me what i had said was immoral when i said something favoring it. (thanks buddy, i love it when people tell me i have no morals!) pfft. whatever. then he was appauled when i didn't know the difference between euthenasia and physician-assisted suicide. i wanted to say that we are not all medical ethicists and as well versed in it as he was but held my tongue. 🙄
the worst part was that he cut me off whenever i tried to talk about something. like he asked me about any red flags on my app. i answered that i thought my mcat scores might be a red flag, because they didn't really correspond to the rest of my app. he said something like "what, you just didn't study?". when i tried to respond he of course cut me off. he must have talked for at least 2/3 of the interview! i kept wanting to say helloooooo, you are trying to get to know *me*! i'm not trying to get to know *you*.
additionally, he trashed talked their school of public health, telling me i went to a "real" school of public health. of course, i didn't know what to say. i didn't want to disagree with him, on the other hand i felt cocky agreeing with him! he also asked if i had any "special friends". oh yeah, and he ridiculed me when i didn't know which st. francis the college my mother went to was named after! he found my view on euthenasia particularly disgraceful, because my mother was catholic. 🙄
so... if anyone's reading this from the nymc admissions
committee, perhaps you should consider retiring certain interviewers or at the very least consider getting feedback from interviewees about how their interview day went. i think i will post this in interview feedback as well. i guess i should be happy that this experience occured at a school i was not interested in attending.
jmwalker, don't worry about nymc. i'm hoping we will both get into drexel!
i dug my grave on the euthenasia question as well. he told me what i had said was immoral when i said something favoring it. (thanks buddy, i love it when people tell me i have no morals!) pfft. whatever. then he was appauled when i didn't know the difference between euthenasia and physician-assisted suicide. i wanted to say that we are not all medical ethicists and as well versed in it as he was but held my tongue. 🙄
the worst part was that he cut me off whenever i tried to talk about something. like he asked me about any red flags on my app. i answered that i thought my mcat scores might be a red flag, because they didn't really correspond to the rest of my app. he said something like "what, you just didn't study?". when i tried to respond he of course cut me off. he must have talked for at least 2/3 of the interview! i kept wanting to say helloooooo, you are trying to get to know *me*! i'm not trying to get to know *you*.
additionally, he trashed talked their school of public health, telling me i went to a "real" school of public health. of course, i didn't know what to say. i didn't want to disagree with him, on the other hand i felt cocky agreeing with him! he also asked if i had any "special friends". oh yeah, and he ridiculed me when i didn't know which st. francis the college my mother went to was named after! he found my view on euthenasia particularly disgraceful, because my mother was catholic. 🙄
so... if anyone's reading this from the nymc admissions
committee, perhaps you should consider retiring certain interviewers or at the very least consider getting feedback from interviewees about how their interview day went. i think i will post this in interview feedback as well. i guess i should be happy that this experience occured at a school i was not interested in attending.
jmwalker, don't worry about nymc. i'm hoping we will both get into drexel!
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I had that old codger too. Since I got waitlisted, I will go off: That guy was a complete assclown. I love answering questions about political issues, and being told I'm "wrong", just cause my views are slightly incongruent with yours 🙄 Yes, he cut off me off multiple times, and no, I didnt get to do much talking in my interview.
no harm done, I wasnt a huge fan of the school (to put it as diplomatically as possible)
I had the same guy also. The interview was shot right from the start. He cut me off about 85% of the time, and shot down my beliefs on euthanasia, and abortion. At the end of the interview I told him basically I have no red flags except for this interview and he said, " that's for sure'. I got up and said this was a waste of my damn time. He looked at me and I left the interview altogether. I live in NYC so I drove down to the city and put that bullsh*t interview out of my mind.
Gee, you guys make me so excited to go to my interview.... I really hope I don't get this guy... but with my luck..
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How sad, i wrote a great response to this earlier but the website wasn't working ... ok, i'll try again...
So i had the notorious dr. wasserman also. It seems he has a personal agenda with all his interviewees, because he also grilled me on euthanasia (I was prepared, but I still got speared!) and told me not to do the MD/MPh program, to go to a real school instead. In fact, he seemed to want me to go to a real MED school instead, not NYMC. It was very weird. And he also asked me this deadly question: What is your top choice medical school - and don't say New York Medical College! That is basically a lose-lose question for anyone.
I'm a second year applicant, and finally got into one medical school earlier this year (before my NYMC interview) and he also suggested that the reason I got in, might have been because of "connections" between my undergraduate school and the medical school. As if I didn't get in based on my own hard work and 4 years of blood sweat and tears.
Anyway I just chalked it up as one of those interviews where they try to stress you out, to see what your response would be. I don't think I stood up for myself enough, personally.
So i had the notorious dr. wasserman also. It seems he has a personal agenda with all his interviewees, because he also grilled me on euthanasia (I was prepared, but I still got speared!) and told me not to do the MD/MPh program, to go to a real school instead. In fact, he seemed to want me to go to a real MED school instead, not NYMC. It was very weird. And he also asked me this deadly question: What is your top choice medical school - and don't say New York Medical College! That is basically a lose-lose question for anyone.
I'm a second year applicant, and finally got into one medical school earlier this year (before my NYMC interview) and he also suggested that the reason I got in, might have been because of "connections" between my undergraduate school and the medical school. As if I didn't get in based on my own hard work and 4 years of blood sweat and tears.
Anyway I just chalked it up as one of those interviews where they try to stress you out, to see what your response would be. I don't think I stood up for myself enough, personally.
kidsmd,
chances are you won't get the guy. if you do, don't argue in favor of physican-assisted suicide if you really want an acceptance and make sure you get all the points across that you want him to know. be pushy and cut him off if you have to! my passiveness obviously did not help me.
chances are you won't get the guy. if you do, don't argue in favor of physican-assisted suicide if you really want an acceptance and make sure you get all the points across that you want him to know. be pushy and cut him off if you have to! my passiveness obviously did not help me.
ha ha! i got asked the what school is your top choice, but he didn't say "don't say nymc". i sat there for a second and decided it would be too lame to say nymc b/c why the hell would a california resident want to go there instead of a uc?! so when i started to explain why the uc i chose was my top choice he of course cut me off! this guy needs to retire.
when i told the student tour guide who i had, she said "i'm sorry" so obviously the guy has a reputation. i can't believe i wasted my money and took time off work to fly all the way out there to be treated so badly. 🙄
when i told the student tour guide who i had, she said "i'm sorry" so obviously the guy has a reputation. i can't believe i wasted my money and took time off work to fly all the way out there to be treated so badly. 🙄
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Make fun of him, too. I didn't make fun of him and I got waitlisted. Thus, if you hurt his feelings you'll get accepted.
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Holy crap...I'm about 10 minutes away from leaving my house to the airport to go to a NYMC interview which I have tomorrow. Now I'm debating whether I should even go or just do some site-seeing around NY. It sounds like I would be wasting my time, especially if I got that guy you guys are talikng about because it seems that I have the same views as you all do. Well, off to the airport......
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lola----my interviewer...i can't remember her name...she kept asking me about high school!!!!
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hmm, thats weird about him saying go to a real medical school. When I asked him what was special about the school, he actually started trashing some of the NYC schools and said Cornell's curriculum was "a joke" and mocked the merger between cornell and columbia's affiliates (I'm not making this up). I tried not to burst into laughter 🙄
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I feel like the local freak saying this, but I had a really good interview/interviewer at NYMC.
I can't remember his name right now, but he's the head of the anatomy department, a priest, and apparently the students' favorite professor. He certainly lived up to his reputation and was extremely nice. He wanted to know a lot about my childhood and "my best memories" and what not. A bit bizarre, but overall good. We also talked a lot about community service (I have mega-community service experience). It was very laid back, he really talked up the school and the area and NYC, and he didn't ask me any pressing ethical questions.
But I am still awaiting a decision from NYMC.
I just don't know anything anymore. The application process has killed too many brain cells. I have begun to doubt myself in entirely new ways.
It's amazing, really.
I can't remember his name right now, but he's the head of the anatomy department, a priest, and apparently the students' favorite professor. He certainly lived up to his reputation and was extremely nice. He wanted to know a lot about my childhood and "my best memories" and what not. A bit bizarre, but overall good. We also talked a lot about community service (I have mega-community service experience). It was very laid back, he really talked up the school and the area and NYC, and he didn't ask me any pressing ethical questions.
But I am still awaiting a decision from NYMC.
I just don't know anything anymore. The application process has killed too many brain cells. I have begun to doubt myself in entirely new ways.
It's amazing, really.
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