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Has anyone experienced unprofessionalism from interviewers? I have heard stories where adcoms would ask a student to dance or sing- which is completely irrelevant to deciding a student is a good fit for a school. I don’t understand what makes them think they could demoralize hopeful applicants by abusing their powers.
 
Slsl said:
Has anyone experienced unprofessionalism from interviewers? I have heard stories where adcoms would ask a student to dance or sing- which is completely irrelevant to deciding a student is a good fit for a school. I don’t understand what makes them think they could demoralize hopeful applicants by abusing their powers.
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I don’t believe the dancing claims
 
My interviewer at a certain school which I’ll leave anonymous never made eye contact, didn’t speak to me for a solid minute when I sat down despite my multiple attempts to strike up a conversation. All he did was sit there read my app, ignore me, and finally when he was done he said you should get in, got up and walked out. 3 months later, rejection. It was really rude honestly, left a bad taste for the school IMO.
 
predent2151 said:
My interviewer at a certain school which I’ll leave anonymous never made eye contact, didn’t speak to me for a solid minute when I sat down despite my multiple attempts to strike up a conversation. All he did was sit there read my app, ignore me, and finally when he was done he said you should get in, got up and walked out. 3 months later, rejection. It was really rude honestly, left a bad taste for the school IMO.
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which school was it? I dont wanna waste my money on that school
 
I wouldn't classify this as unprofessional, but I had one interviewer essentially roast me for 60 minutes. He/she directly highlighted the weakest points of my app and played devil's advocate to every response I gave. It was such a stressful interview. Fortunately I was accepted, but the interview put a bad taste in my mouth.
 
Life of Pablo said:
I wouldn't classify this as unprofessional, but I had one interviewer essentially roast me for 60 minutes. He/she directly highlighted the weakest points of my app and played devil's advocate to every response I gave. It was such a stressful interview. Fortunately I was accepted, but the interview put a bad taste in my mouth.
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I don't see anything wrong with that. They are just holding your feet to the fire.
 
Life of Pablo said:
I wouldn't classify this as unprofessional, but I had one interviewer essentially roast me for 60 minutes. He/she directly highlighted the weakest points of my app and played devil's advocate to every response I gave. It was such a stressful interview. Fortunately I was accepted, but the interview put a bad taste in my mouth.
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Why do you think this was? Was it a common thing with interview, or were there some real red flags that you kinda expected would be talked about?
 
helloboys said:
I don't see anything wrong with that. They are just holding your feet to the fire.
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The person also asked me some very difficult questions about the dental field, and there was absolutely no way I could’ve been expected to know the answers to those questions. Again, I never said it was unprofessional, but it was definitely a difficult interview.

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Why do you think this was? Was it a common thing with interview, or were there some real red flags that you kinda expected would be talked about?
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This was the only interviewer to do this to me. All my other interviews were extremely pleasant. I wouldn’t say I had any red flags on my application at all. I guess the interviewer just wanted to see how I would perform under stress? Who knows - in the end he told me I’d be a good fit for the class, so it wasn’t anything personal.
 
I have classmates who experienced unprofessional behavior and questions from interviewers first hand. Thankfully they all were accepted at more than one school.
 
Slsl said:
I have heard stories where adcoms would ask a student to dance or sing- which is completely irrelevant to deciding a student is a good fit for a school.
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wut? honestly i don't want to come off as condescending but don't worry about the small stuff and things you can't control. Right now you should be trying to submit your app asap/study for the DAT.
 
Yeah you really shouldn’t worry about it. It’s pretty rare to get someone who’s just blatantly unprofessional. Unfortunately I got unlucky. I ended up actually emailing the school and told them of my negative interview experience.
 
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I had an interviewer that was texting and using his phone under the table during one of my interviews last fall. It was a 2-on-1 interview so the other interviewer was asking most of the questions while the first one was paying attention to his phone. And when the he finally asked me a question, it was a question the other one had already asked! Just threw me off a little the first 10 minutes but then I put my focus on the interviewer that was paying attention to me
 
Slsl said:
Has anyone experienced unprofessionalism from interviewers? I have heard stories where adcoms would ask a student to dance or sing- which is completely irrelevant to deciding a student is a good fit for a school. I don’t understand what makes them think they could demoralize hopeful applicants by abusing their powers.
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The only context that this makes sense for me is if the student had highlighted some kind of arts background on the their resume. Still pretty weird though.
 
Its_Me_G said:
I had an interviewer that was texting and using his phone under the table during one of my interviews last fall. It was a 2-on-1 interview so the other interviewer was asking most of the questions while the first one was paying attention to his phone. And when the he finally asked me a question, it was a question the other one had already asked! Just threw me off a little the first 10 minutes but then I put my focus on the interviewer that was paying attention to me
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Lol VCU? If so dido.
 
All of my interviewers, including the students, were professional and friendly. I would not be worried about it because it is beyond your control.
 
I had a student interviewer start asking me questions in the elevator (with other people in it) before we got to the actual interview room. It caught me so off guard.
 
:laugh::laugh::laugh: This is an entertaining thread! I've personally haven't experienced any bad interviews. All of them were enjoyable and down to earth.

I only struggled with my first interview, as I was not as prepared and it being the first interview ever.
 
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