BrettBatchelor said:
Q, Do you feel a lot of people will have the same reason of why you want to come to the school?
Places like Yale, Duke with the unique curriculum has to be one of everyone's reasons.
What about things like associated hospitals, research going on at the med school etc.? I dunno I haven't looked at things too closely to know which schools and why but I don't feel like I'll have many ground breaking reasons except for maybe MD/MBA but it is a risk to bring it up in the MD interviews.
Don't worry about other people; it's hard enough worrying about yourself. If the curriculum is why you want to go there, say so. Duke and Yale do have unique curriculums. For those two schools, I would emphasize not only how much you like the curriculum, but also how you know you would succeed in a maverick environment. So at Yale, for example, I told the interviewer all about my college experience. The other things you will need to look up. That's why I'm telling you to study, really study, every school. You should know what their major hospitals are. You should know what strengths are. I would estimate that I spent about 10 hours on average preparing for each interview. This includes reading the entire school website, reading the SDN interview feedback for that school, making myself a list of practice questions that other people got asked at that school and going through them all, and reading over my own AMCAS and secondary essays. (Oh yes, open interviews are the bane of your existence. They can ask you about things you wrote six months ago and did ten years ago, and they do.)
Not only should you be prepared with the questions I asked above, but also the following ones came up at nearly every interview for me:
1) Tell me about yourself.
2) Tell me about your research. (Obviously won't come up if you haven't done any.)
3) Tell me more about experience X on your AMCAS.
4) How will you handle the weather here? (This is an interesting one; I got asked it quite often at the northern schools. Since I'd spent four months working at a remote science station in below freezing weather, it was easy to deflect. But if you're a Southerner applying up north, or a Northerner applying down south, be prepared to explain how you plan to adjust to the climate.)
I can't stress enough how helpful it is to go through the SDN interview feedback. There were several interviews that I went to where I could have read off the list of questions along with the interviewer. I had practiced answering ALL of them; again, the hardest thing was to work on coming across as thoughtful and not too eager. I also can't stress enough how important it is to practice, but not memorize, your answers. You do NOT want to sound canned. But you DO want to sound polished and thoughtful. During the stress of the interview is NOT when you should be thinking about the questions you're being asked. If you study the questions like I've told you to do, the interviews will be a lot more fun. Here's how to handle questions you already "know" from SDN:
1) Let the interviewer finish asking the question. Never, ever interrupt him/her, no matter how eager you are to answer. Also, listen to the entire question. The temptation is to start thinking about your answer while the interviewer is babbling on, but don't do that. When his/her mouth is open, yours is shut.
2) Once s/he is done asking the question, smile, and then pause for a few seconds before you begin to answer. Again, you are wanting to collect your thoughts and show that you are seriously considering the question.
3) Speak clearly and deliberately. Don't rush through your answer. Speak in a pleasant, natural way.
Other interview tips:
4) Sometimes you might get a difficult interviewer who is trying to bait you. Never, EVER take the bait. Interviewing is a game, and if that interviewer makes you mad, you automatically lose. On the other hand, if you can stay calm and earn their respect, difficult interviewers will probably advocate for you to the committee. That's why people sometimes tell you that they had a horrible interview at School A and then got accepted there. Practice discussing the weak areas of your application in a non-defensive, non-whiny way. If the interviewer gives you a hard time about your low grades or your limited volunteering experience, admit your deficiency, and then explain what you've done since then to rectify the situation.
5) Be enthusiastic. You've been working to get into medical school for years now, and you're close to your goal. You're touring med school, meeting med students, imagining yourself being there as one of them. It's exciting, so be excited! I seriously loved nearly every school I saw. Even the ones that I decided weren't great fits for me still had a ton of good things about them that I liked and appreciated.
6) Be mature. A good sense of humor is a wonderful asset. An inappropriate one will hurt you. You're an adult now, so you need to act like it.
7) Focus on others, not yourself. I've been reading a zillion PSs, and you wouldn't believe how many people talk about wanting to go into medicine to fulfill themselves. I've got news for you kids: medical school is not about you finding yourself. Medicine is a job, yes, but you need to have some altruism in you if you're going to survive. So if all you can talk about is your own wants and being fulfilled, that's going to turn people off.
I can't wait for hubby to get down here permanently, I feel like our whole life is in flux and I can't bring myself to commit to doing anything. 
