Thank you for your help - deleting all my posts and locking thread

[m1416]

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[sarcasmrules]

Unless they're new, I sincerely doubt you're the first they've interviewed this way. Everyone interviews differently. I know a story of someone who had similar questions from their interviewer. In the process of reporting him, they found out he gave them a full recommendation. That said, you can do it to be safe.

 

[LizzyM]

Some interviewers might take a dim view of people who claim to be something they are not and they will push and push to see if you are genuine or a fraud. If you got your interview in part because of your grit in overcoming real hardship, then it shouldn't matter with regard to the outcome if you were questioned about that or your opinion of some health care policy question in the news. If the person who wanted to be assured that you were genuinely of low SES growing up, and your answers provided that assurance, then you're golden.

I'm rather surprised at the interviewer's questions as I can see in the AMCAS application how an applicant paid for school (% need based scholarships, % merit based scholarships, % family contribution, etc), whether one worked before age 18, and (optional) parents' occupation. But maybe the school that interviewed you doesn't make those sections available to the interviewer and the interviewer was just going by something in an essay.

If the questions were related to material in your application, and not protected (age, race, sex, gender, gender-expression, religion, military service, child-care, etc, etc) then it is fair game in an interview.

 

[privatesugar]

I think it's wrong to assume this was to your detriment as an applicant (it could be but who knows). I got grilled in an interview and left with a similar awful feeling; as if the interviewer didn't like me as a person. I later received an acceptance from that school. I would not report this unless you feel confident you won't attend this school, for the sake of your application.

 

[LizzyM]

You wrote about having a single mom and moving around. Could you chalk up the interview questions to curiosity about something that is rather rare among applicants who are invited to interview? Sometimes, what gets asked about is not what would seem to the applicant to be most important (clinical experiences, academic success, research prowess) but what is novel or unusual. Some interviewers are just seeing if you can communicate clearly, think on your feet, be responsive without being evasive.

You may feel that you were short-changed because the interviewer was late for the interview which could not be extended to the full 30 minutes and because you were not asked the questions that you would think would show your application in the best light. But, you don't know what the interviewer was doing that made them late, or what their goals were in conducting the interview and if those goals were met on their end which is what really matters in how they write up the report.

Relax and let things play out. I don't believe that you were discriminated against given what happened.