VCOM interview

[Di227]

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Hey everyone! I was just wondering how any of the VCOM med students here (or people who had interviews at VCOM) felt about the interview and the school in general? I'm flying down to Virginia at the end of September for my interview, but I have not heard too much about this school yet. There's no interview feedback posted for the school on this website. So I just wanted to get some feedback from everyone (about the school, VA tech campus, and Blacksburg in general) before I come. Thanks!

 

[Amy B]

I had a very positive experience when I interviewed at VCOM. It is a very relaxing and non-stressfull interview. You will meet 3 mini interviews with 1 academic, 1 clinical and 1 administration person. You will take a tour of the building, will hear about VCOM and will have lunch. We met with the financial aid person. We also had a driving tour of Blacksburg and some of the apartment complexes. I left with a great feeling and knew that I wanted to come to VCOM. There are right ups on interview feedback on SDN. They are not from this year yet, but they are from the last 2 years. Good luck. Let me know if you want to know anything else.

 

[levelhead]

For a heads up on what VCOM is about see this thread:

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=218422&page=1&pp=25

 

[Amy B]

Good grief, give it up and move on with your life. This is not going to affect our education.

 

[Badger1049]

As I posted in a premedical thread, it is my understanding that anything the media was boasting for about VCOM and LU had been retracted. As far as I can tell the quality of the education has not been changed.

My interview experience was great. I had been to some allopathic school interviews and felt rushed and that they only wanted to hear my numbers and not get to know me. At VCOM, I felt at home when I walked through the doors. And the interviewers had read my secondary! Which is more than I can say about the feeling I got from the allopaths. They cared about my answers and asked me why I wrote the things I did, which made me feel like they wanted me to be a part of their program/school.

 

[levelhead]

Good grief, give it up and move on with your life. This is not going to affect our education.

Amy,
Instead of trying to belittle my post, you may try taking your head out of the sand. This decision by the administration may not affect YOUR education, since it is apparent that you don't have a problem with it, but for those that do take issue, this can greatly impact their satisfaction and overall happiness during their time at VCOM. This is why I linked to that thread. Di227 asked what VCOM students "felt about the....school in general." The linked thread contains many opinions about the school; therefore it is very relevant and did not deserve your derisive comment.

Being that you are training to be a D.O., I would have expected a little more compassion.

levelhead

 

[Amy B]

I did show compassion... i told you to move on with your life. You feel the need to bring this up again. And yet the orginial thread has been dead for awhile. We saw it, we commented on it, we all expressed our feelings on it, so what is the point in reposted a link to it. It was already reported that the paper misquoted things. Things were not completly correct

So belittle you??? Hardly. my "derisive comment ". Not even. Nothing I said was mocking you in anyway or out of line. I simply told you to move on. You seem so hung up on the Falwell thing. In all your recent posts on a number of the VCOM threads you have gone on about it and continue to bring it up to give VCOM a blackeye about it. We are proud of school and don't need people cutting it down in their own personal vendetta. And if you attend VCOM, I can't figure out why you would cut down your own school so publicly.

We have been in school for a week now, and I can honestly say I haven't heard a word about the Falwell thing from anyone. In general the majority of our class seems happy with the education we are receiving.

As to LU... so what? Jerry himself is not attending here. If the LU students are qualified and meet the standards that VCOM is setting up for the feeder program, then why shouldn't they get to come here. Because they go to a Christian undergrad school? Does that make them less of a premed student? This school is in the Bible belt, LU is a Christian school, and they have premed students who want to attend VCOM, so what?

 

[fightthepower]

Amy B, you seem much more concerned about making sure VCOM doesn't 'look bad' than allowing any sort of honest conversation. You love VCOM and think it's the awesomest, greatest, most bestest school ever. That much is abundantly clear. But guess what? Not everyone feels the same. Allow those people to express themselves just as you have expressed yourself over three thousand times on this forum (according to your post count). It is very arrogant of you to assume that all discussion of a particular topic should stop just because YOU don't care and YOU think it's over. And I have to wonder: if you think the Falwell relationship is such a wonderful thing, why are you trying to keep people from talking about it?

I did show compassion... i told you to move on with your life.

I find your definition of "compassion" very... amusing.

Finally, your attempted conflation of anti-Falwell sentiment with anti-Christian sentiment is disingenuous. You claim to have read the original thread; therefore you must be aware that though many reasons were given for people's unhappiness with the LU partnership, the school's Christian basis was NOT one of them. Why do you pretend otherwise?

 

[levelhead]

Compassion, as defined by Amy B:

move on with your life

That could pretty much sum up your response to all feelings or opinions that have been expressed by anyone who has expressed dissatisfaction with the divisive atmosphere that is insidiously developing at our school.

You feel the need to bring this up again. And yet the orginial thread has been dead for awhile. We saw it, we commented on it, we all expressed our feelings on it, so what is the point in reposted a link to it. It was already reported that the paper misquoted things.

As stated previously, I posted it in response to Di227's question, which it directly addressed, i.e. how current students feel about the school. And I must say, your compassion has really shown through with statements such as these above. Also, VCOM has yet to have the paper officially retract that article, so as far as I'm concerned, the article stands. I know the administration claims there are inaccuracies, yet they haven't cared enough to correct them nor have they cared to even officially announce this to the student body.

So belittle you??? Hardly. my "derisive comment ". Not even.

Again, more understanding from the compassionate Amy B...

Oh, and I "give VCOM a blackeye about it"?
"We are proud of school"?
We "don't need people cutting it down in their own personal vendetta"?

Um... no. I have no "vendetta." Sure, I was misled into thinking VCOM was a normal institution of higher education, but I am not out to give VCOM a "blackeye." I am trying to answer Di227's as well as any other prospective students’ questions regarding VCOM, since I can speak from personal experience.

We have been in school for a week now, and I can honestly say I haven't heard a word about the Falwell thing from anyone.

So, I guess you've spoken to every single person in class, eh?

As to LU... so what? Jerry himself is not attending here.

Huh? I have no idea what that has to do with anything. You've obviously not read, or at least not given true consideration to the posts in that original VCOM/LU thread.

 

[Doctor Bagel]

levelhead and ftp, i really appreciate your posts here and in the prior thread. as a prospective student, i think you for being honest about your experiences with vcom.

 

[Badger1049]

Okay, okay, gloves off everyone. . .this thread started out being about the VCOM interview, not an excuse to make accusations of anyone's beliefs/opinions. We are all entitled to them.

So when you ask about an interview, do you automatically throw in all the baggage, etc. that goes along with the school? Everyone is entitled to know about these things, yet the admin doesn't share things easily with the student body. . .which they are all out of town helping with Katrina relief efforts. . .but regardless, the interview process is a very warm, kind experience. The school however has its fair share of "growing pains" and there really isn't anything that the students can do at this point. Static Line has summed up the relationship @ this Other Thread
Now everyone has to make their own decisions about who is going to do what, and where. So if presenting all the information is the way one makes a decision then present it. . .

 

[Amy B]

Allow those people to express themselves just as you have expressed yourself over three thousand times on this forum (according to your post count).

I have been on SDN for many years now and people here know me and have apprieciated the help and advice I have given here. I also have gained valuable advice from posters here on SDN as well. I am not going to even deal with anything you or levelhead have said about me here. If you want to talk to me in class, you know where to find me since my screen name is quite clear as to who I am.

Bottom line, Di227 and those applying this year......go to medical school where you will be happy since you will spend many hours there. Research the school, talk to the staff, talk to students, etc and make sure you are getting all the info you can and then take that info and find the happy medium between those like me who are over zealous about their school and those like others here who are not happy about the school and what the policies are and then decide for yourself.

In the end it won't matter what our opinions were, but rather it will only matter what you feel about the school. Good luck with your decisions.