Both are perfect examples behind the reasoning for interviews. They have to rule out the freaks some way!
Wow I can't believe those stories you quoted actually happened. That is just crazy!!! Makes you wonder about some people.
Both are perfect examples behind the reasoning for interviews. They have to rule out the freaks some way!
You appear cocky if you believe that you are a shoe in at the school you are interviewing at. An adcomm at Maryland told me that she was interviewing this Hopkins guy with a 4.0 GPA and a 39 MCAT. On top of not really seeming interested in the school, he was describing his doctor shadowing in hopkins hospital, and he refered to the poor, indigent (black/hispanic) patients as "those people"; and he exclaimed how he could never understand what they were saying (even the blacks). I'm sure that I'm not describing it well, but you can see that he was completely detached from the real world and he had a sense of entitlement. He wasn't humbly grateful for his interview.
I had forgotten about that -- killer for sure! Also, misspelling the name of the school -- more than once -- when it is printed on the top of the secondary!
Proof read, people.
Well I'm just passing along advice given to me by an ex-adcom friend of mine who's also a gay M.D.. He said I need to remove any trace from my application that I'm gay (and all I did was mention that I have had a partner for 9+ years and bought a house together 6 years ago) as it was killing my application.
...which ironically AMCAS had trouble with...they list the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine simply as "Southern Illinois School of Medicine" (on my app at least)...nothing to call home about but still you'd think AMCAS wouldn't make a mistake like that
I was thinking more along the lines of Wyle College of Medicine, Pritsker, and Havard.
8. arrogance (which can come out through your essays or interviews, especially)
1. Stick a piece of broccoli between your front teeth, smile a lot.
2. Excuse yourself to go to the bathroom, come back completely soaked.
3. As you reach inside your briefcase pull out a sock puppet, introduce him as Socko and harass your interviewer with it.
4. Comment on how much you like your interviewers spouses picture, then take it and put it in your briefcase.
As you reach inside your briefcase pull out a sock puppet, introduce him as "Socko" and harass your interviewer with it.
-Asking your interviewer out on a date
Taking more than 1 BBQ sandwich at UTSW
Someone who did a summer program at upstate said that the admissions staff told them a story of one student who would have been accepted, but then the adcom found out he was an a**hole to the admissions office staff. He wasn't accepted... don't know if he was waitlisted or rejected.
Another example of cocky. I forget where I heard this but I believe it may have been someone who spoke about admissions at an AMSA meeting, but essentially what I heard was that one time someone turned in an AMCAS without a personal statement.
They assumed that they could get in on numbers alone but not have to write any essays. Completely ******ed thing to do.
I heard slipping a friendly bribe to the Dean doesn't work as well as it theoretically should.
Submitting an application with typos or bad grammar. Misusing the following words: to/too, their/there/they're, we're/were/wear, it's/its, your/you're.
Of course, there is an exception to everything. I was actually being generous with my stat compare to what the UCSD admissions lady told me. She said that applicants should have around 3.7 and 30 to be EVEN considered.
That speaks to my constantly correcting people re: University AT Buffalo. There is no University OF Buffalo.I was thinking more along the lines of Wyle College of Medicine, Pritsker, and Havard.
~Arrogance. There is no need to be snooty during interview day. It just makes you look like a jerk and shows the admissions office that you don't play well with others.
~cutting and pasting secondaries and forgetting to change the school names
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At one of my interviews, I was discussing my thoughts on the school to the interviewers and mentioned my home school's name (instead of the one I was interviewing at)....I caught myself and apologized profusely - definitely not my best moment
Asking your interviewer out on a date
Actually, anything less than 3.4 GPA and 28 MCAT
Ditto. My PS had 2 as well, and another major one in my EC's; I too will be attending Med School.My PS statement had 2 typos and my EC descriptions had a 3rd. Attending an MD school in the fall. Not an app kiler. (<---This typos are 4 teh laughs)