question regarding interviews

[axe07]

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Hey, how do you guys handle your senior year of college while having to go to interviews and such? I'm only a sophomore right now, but planning ahead I guess=D.. Do you think it would be better off applying April of my senior year so during interview times, I would have already graduated? What did you guys do? Thanks for any feedback

 

[UCLAstudent]

Hey, how do you guys handle your senior year of college while having to go to interviews and such? I'm only a sophomore right now, but planning ahead I guess=D.. Do you think it would be better off applying April of my senior year so during interview times, I would have already graduated? What did you guys do? Thanks for any feedback

If you apply at the end of your senior year, med schools will want to see that you DO something with that free time, so you will likely still have to miss something (work, research, volunteering, etc.). I am a senior and have been interviewing ... it's not fun having to play catch-up with school all the time, but it certainly is doable. 🙂

 

[Pinkertinkle]

It's not as bad as you'd think. If you're quick you can wrap up a cross country interview in two days. Interviews close to home are even easier. Whether you want to take a year off depends on many factors. Grades don't really count senior year if you apply so that's a plus.

I personally decided to apply during senior year and take the risk of missing some class. Unfortunately, and fortunately, I've only had one far away interview and one close to home interview, so it hasn't had much of an impact at all.

 

[UCLAstudent]

It's not as bad as you'd think. If you're quick you can wrap up a cross country interview in two days. Interviews close to home are even easier. Whether you want to take a year off depends on many factors. Grades don't really count senior year if you apply so that's a plus.

To add to this: for most trips I only miss one day of school. I fly to the interview the day before, but after my classes are over. That way, I only miss class on the day of the actual interview. This has only worked for interviews on the West Coast, though. Anything farther away requires a full travel day.

 

[stoic]

It's not really a big deal. As other posters have mentioned you don't really need to miss more than a couple days of class per interview. Also, as long as you talk to profs a few weeks in advance they're mostly willing to work with you.

Good luck,
S