Ok let me start by saying that the SCCO interview was probably one of the most formal and professional interviews that I have ever went to. The staff there was really really friendly. I have to admit that the interview was really hard imo, they asked a lot of challenging questions, but I felt pretty comfortable, which is very important in an interview. You gotta have confidence.
Well let's start off with the essay question:
"Professionalism has been defined by the characteristic traits compassion, authority, and humility. Choose one trait and write a one page paper elaborating how that trait helps to define what professionalism is."
For my interview I met with Dr. Susan Shin, and Dr. John Lee. At first I felt sort of awkward because while I was talking to them, they had such straight faces. Like they wouldn't smile, and gave me very serious eye contact. But as the interview progressed, I could see that they were "loosening" up a bit and we even made some jokes and all had a good laugh towards the end of the interview, which was a pretty good sign to me.
Ok as for the questions, boy did they fire a bunch at me. It was almost non stop thorough questioning. I'll post all the questions I remember, but they may not be in the order I recieved them:
Why Optometry?
Are you a good memorizer?
Do you study better with a group or independently?
What brings you to an interview at SCCO? What is it that stands out about SCCO?
What made you choose Optometry as a profession out of any other health related profession such as: dentistry, opthalmology, medicine, pharmacy?
Do you know how many units are in a quarter at SCCO? Do you think you have a problem handling it?
Why would you consider an Optometrist as a primary care provider?
What do you expect to get out of an education at SCCO?
What do you know about the scope of Optometry? What do you see for the future of Optometry?
What type of practice do you hope to pursue and why?
Have you been keeping up on the news lately? What is a current issue that you have been concerned with?
What are your hobbies?
What type of community volunteer service have you done?
What is the difference between an Optometrist and an Opthalmologist?
What types of optometric instruments have you worked with?
Define Professionalism. What about yourself helps define professionalism?
Yea as you can see it was a lot of questions (well in my opinion)
The interview lasted a little over an hour, maybe 1 hour 15 minutes.
I hope this helps you guys! and again, if i'm not supposed to be posting all of this, someone let me know so I can take it off right away! If you guys have anymore quesitons, feel free to drop me a PM or an email.
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congrats! of course, post the details 
