Should I reschedule a mock interview until I'm more prepared?

[narla_hotep]

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I know this is a silly question but I'm a pretty neurotic person as many of us are on here.

My issue is, a long time ago I scheduled a practice mock interview with a premed advisor for tomorrow morning, but I failed to take into account that I would have 3 hard exams this week and be completely beyond stressed out. I know it's just a practice interview and it doesn't mean anything, but I'm sooooooo unprepared that I'm just cringing at the thought of the feedback I'll get from this advisor. Honestly I'm so stressed out right now I probably couldn't even answer why I want to be a doctor. And I haven't done practice questions or anything so I'll probably be blanking out on some questions and saying incoherent BS on others.

Do you think the advisor's feedback from the practice interview would be more helpful if I was more prepared going into it? And if so, just how rude would it be to call tomorrow morning (only a few hours before the appointment) and reschedule for another day?

 

[aalamruad]

I'd really recommend against rescheduling, you've known about the mock interview for a long time and it sounds like you had plenty of time to prepare if you really wanted to. I feel like it would be pretty disrespectful to reschedule on such short notice, especially with the excuse that you have exams this week when a mock interview will only take around an hour or two. It sounds like it's just the anxiety getting to you, but it's good to power through that kind of stuff in preparation for the even greater anxiety associated with real interviews. I'm sure you'll do great, just try to remain calm and composed, and realize that any mistakes you make will only benefit you in the long run. Good luck!

 

[ifnotnowwren]

Do the interview. You know what you don't know, you know what you will need to work on. If you get feedback about those things, then you get feedback about those things, oh well, nothing lost really right? View this as a worst case scenario interview practice. Just go in and do your best. You may surprise yourself. Worse comes to worst, you got some practice with interview skills and you got to practice thinking on the fly. In real interviews, you may get thrown questions that you have never thought of before, this is a dry run for that.

 

[Frogger27]

I would do the interview... you will probably be anxious in your real interview so might as well practice under game-day conditions

 

[DrCaffeinated]

No

 

[Goro]

No.

I know this is a silly question but I'm a pretty neurotic person as many of us are on here.

My issue is, a long time ago I scheduled a practice mock interview with a premed advisor for tomorrow morning, but I failed to take into account that I would have 3 hard exams this week and be completely beyond stressed out. I know it's just a practice interview and it doesn't mean anything, but I'm sooooooo unprepared that I'm just cringing at the thought of the feedback I'll get from this advisor. Honestly I'm so stressed out right now I probably couldn't even answer why I want to be a doctor. And I haven't done practice questions or anything so I'll probably be blanking out on some questions and saying incoherent BS on others.

Do you think the advisor's feedback from the practice interview would be more helpful if I was more prepared going into it? And if so, just how rude would it be to call tomorrow morning (only a few hours before the appointment) and reschedule for another day?

 

[redsox93]

No

 

[Lawpy]

No

No.

No

 

[Medicine Goal]

Hi Narla_hotep,

First off, congratulations for your interview invites! The first step to doing well in your interviews is to understand your weaknesses. And the only way to do that is by getting a practice session in order to get valuable feedback. Don't be too stressed about the mock interview since it doesn't count for anything and it'll only help you get better. Keep in mind, we were all rusty when we first started out practicing for interviews. In fact, I completely bombed my first mock interview but took that feedback to learn how to improve. After months of practicing, I went back to my adviser a few days before my interview at Harvard, she couldn't believe how much I improved. So just give it a shot and see how it goes, it's important to see where your baseline is and you will only go up from there.

I hope that helps! 🙂

 

[CaliforniaDreamer]

my interview at Harvard

So impressed

 

[narla_hotep]

Yeahh, I'm just gonna go do it. Sorry for even posting about such a dumb topic, I was just having a mini panic attack last night because I was cramming for my exam this morning and realized I'd barely even thought about the mock interview.