Terrible interview = good story

[DocForAll]

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So let's hear them . . .

My worst was the Mayo - 1st the student interviewer rushes in late & doesn't introduce herself, just takes me into some room. I had no idea who she was & that this was the interview. Everything out of her mouth was explain, explain, explain!!!
Oh your parents are divorced explain, oh your 28 explain, oh your dog has terrible gas explain (j/k).

Then later the "doctor" comes to interview me. A psychiatrist - need I say more!!! Everything with him was - how did that make you feel?? I'm not even stereotyping - it's true. Oh you grew up poor how did that make you feel?????? Oh you felt out of place in school how did that make you feel??? I don't know OUT OF PLACE!!! Then he procedes to tell me a story about how out of place he felt in college because he was one of the only people majoring in pre-med at his school. Yeah that's kind of like growing up poor, in a bad neighborhood, being raised by a single parent & feeling out of place in college.

Anyhow he then looks down at my transcript & says oh you have a withdrawl - you know when things get tough at the Mayo you can't just witdrawl. You have to be able to balance a lot of things if you want to make it through medical school at the Mayo, I know I went to school here, he proclaims. By then I could not hold it in any further - I told him that if I could work full-time while going to school full-time & keeping my grades over a 3.7 that I could "handle" the Mayo. I then proceeded to tell him (with a previous exceptance elsewhere in hand) that I WILL be a doctor and that nothing and no one will stop me.

Fast forward to now - still no word from the Mayo which I think means that they may not wan't me. Oh well - I probably couldn't have "handled" The Mayo anyhow.

So what's your worst.

 

[lattimer13]

Ha ha, "the mayo."

here's mine. at one of my interviews my interviewer came and got me and we went to a quiet room to talk. second question out of his mouth was "what kind of physician do you want to be?" my response was "not a surgeon." then i began to ramble on about my interests in medicine and telling him that i wasn't sure what area i wanted to go into but was fairly confident i wanted to practice medicine and not surgery. during this whole time, i'm looking at him and starts grinning...and when i'm done explaining, i say "oh, you're a surgeon, aren't you?" oh man, did i feel dumb. i apoligized and explained my reasoning. he just laughed and told me not to rule out surgery just yet. he said he felt the same way before entering med school. we laughed and i was sure to apologize again at the end of the interview.

 

[carrigallen]

for more good stories, check out the "bizarre interview moments" thread... anyway, I've heard some terrible interviews can actually result in an acceptance, so there may still be hope for "the Mayo" !

 

[Desdemona]

If "the Mayo" rejects you, send them a jar of mayonnaise. Just kidding

 

[DocForAll]

Actually just got the letter the day after I started the post - first & only rejection so far - from "The Mayo."
I poop on the mayo!
I should've been as graceful as the lattimer, but I'm not - I'm wrapping up the mayo as we speak