Worried about interview skills

[brommanders]

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Thanks for the responses everyone.

 

[Cotterpin]

Whyyyyyyyyy are you worried about your interview skills if you've been accepted to a top 20 school?

 

[sharkbyte]

Usually once you've done a few interviews you'll get the hang of it but if you want more practice, I'd recommend talking to friends, parents, relatives, etc. who can conduct mock interviews with you and give you honest feedback. Are you at school? If so, you can stop by the Career Center or the pre-med office and see if they have mock interviews.

Also, keep in mind that the application process can be really unpredictable. You could be rejected or waitlisted at a school with a post-interview acceptance rate of 70% and you could be accepted at a school that only accepts 25%. That's just how it goes. Also, sometimes, what you said could have been fine but your body language, tone, eye contact, etc. could have been an issue (just tossing out possibilities, not saying this necessarily happened to you).

You said you have an interview coming up at your top choice school - you need to rock it. You need to convince that school that you'll be a great addition to their class. Always think of the end goal. Go in there with excitement and confidence. And if it doesn't work out, you have a Top 20 acceptance to fall back on which is great!

 

[BluMist]

quoted just to bump up the neuroticism

*Please don't quote as I'd like to edit it later and remain anonymous during the app cycle. Thank you.

 

[Psai]

*Please don't quote as I'd like to edit it later and remain anonymous during the app cycle. Thank you.

Man your interview skills must be terrible. Just a top 20 school? Not even a top 5?

 

[brommanders]

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[Psai]

Thanks sdn for making me realize how neurotic my post was. I guess the pressure of my upcoming interview and my recent school decisions really got to me. I'll keep practicing and hope for the best.

Nice man, normally this website has the opposite effect

 

[Glazedonutlove]

@brommanders Most schools look at your whole app after interview, so it doesn't necessarily have to be because of your interview skills! Congrats on your acceptance

 

[JessebenBenjamin]

Am I the only one who wants to find out the real identity of SDNers based on who I've met during my interviews?

OP sounds a lot like this one guy I was talking to...

 

[njtrimed]

Usually once you've done a few interviews you'll get the hang of it but if you want more practice, I'd recommend talking to friends, parents, relatives, etc. who can conduct mock interviews with you and give you honest feedback. Are you at school? If so, you can stop by the Career Center or the pre-med office and see if they have mock interviews.

Also, keep in mind that the application process can be really unpredictable. You could be rejected or waitlisted at a school with a post-interview acceptance rate of 70% and you could be accepted at a school that only accepts 25%. That's just how it goes. Also, sometimes, what you said could have been fine but your body language, tone, eye contact, etc. could have been an issue (just tossing out possibilities, not saying this necessarily happened to you).

You said you have an interview coming up at your top choice school - you need to rock it. You need to convince that school that you'll be a great addition to their class. Always think of the end goal. Go in there with excitement and confidence. And if it doesn't work out, you have a Top 20 acceptance to fall back on which is great!

I'm with sharkbyte. OP, you're probably not being neurotic. If you're not getting into most of the schools that offered interviews, you need to polish your skills. Getting rejected pre-interview is usually a matter of stats and/or fit to that program, while getting rejected post-interview means you probably didn't show enough interest in their program.

 

[XxThaDoggxX]

accepted to 1 top 20 school..

/End thread.

 

[DiDoc]

Also keep in mind that post-interview acceptance rates are including people taken off the waitlists near the end of the cycle (I think). So being waitlisted doesn't mean you're not going to eventually be included in those 70% of people accepted post-interview.

 

[Lost in Translation]

Well if you've been accepted then you must be doing something right.

 

[heebeejeebies]

You know how they say 3 makes an MD? I've had three... looking not so hot though.

Prevailing wisdom says appraising one's own interview performance is ill advised and often wrong, but man...

 

[WedgeDawg]

You know how they say 3 makes an MD?

Whoever says this needs to stop saying it

 

[along900]

I know that one of my friends in med school has been doing mock interviews with students lately through admissions ace if you are interested in a mock interview to gain some confidence.

 

[StudyLater]

I know that one of my friends in med school has been doing mock interviews with students lately through admissions ace if you are interested in a mock interview to gain some confidence.

6 posts, one of which is an advertisement. You are clearly a valued member of SDN whose testimony I will take seriously. Thank you kind friend!

 

[Nitromate]

theres online companies that will go over mock interviews with you

 

[Yaravan]

i had one of my friends just ask me a lot of the questions