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"All my questions were background specific. Lots of how did you feel, did you like this, what did you take away from the experience type of things."
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"why medicine (sigh), revisited the topic for elaboration too"
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"none of my questions were really anything out of the ordinary. several questions about my amcas app, several more about background and family, and one about where i'd want to be in 10/20 years. "
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What are your activities?
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"describe final project."
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"Why Dartmouth? (they all ask this one)"
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"Why Dartmouth? My student host advised me that if you can't survive in a rural environment, this is probably not the school for you. Most of the students here are married/in serious relationships and their mean age is pretty high for med schools. If you are a non-trad, married, love the outdoors, interesting in having kids/raising kids during medical school, this is probably a good fit for you."
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"do you have any questions for me? (this was a big part of both my interviews, so have some questions ready - mostly i asked general stuff like what does dartmouth have that makes it special etc.)"
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"Tell me a story. It can be about anything, but it must tell me something about yourself."
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"Talking about wellness"
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"how are you different today than in 2001 (iam a non traditional student)"
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"Given your interest in working with a diverse population, would Dartmouth's relatively homogenous patient population factor into your final decision of which school to attend?"
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"a lot of questions about transplants"
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"Nothing sadly, just a conversation. I wanted more."
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"nothing particularly interesting or difficult; neither of my interviewers had read my file, preferring to get to know me in person first"
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"Has anyone dissuaded you from this career"
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"The interviews are very casual....really was like a general conversation (see my comments under general info). They asked clarification questions about certain expereinces and we just talked about whatever the convo rolled in to....at one point we were talking about moose. "
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"Just the normal questions"
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"One of the interviewers asked me about my research."
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"None really. I interviewed with a PhD and a second year medical student on the admissions committee. Some of my interviewers had two doctors however. My PhD interviewer seemed to lack the social prowess as most people in lab research do, and it was really up to me to take direction of the interview and ask questions. We ended up talking about her research, her children, my community work. The only question she asked was why I wanted to go into medicine (which followed up my question to why she wanted to do research. My MSII interview was very chill and it was more or less a conversation on common experiences (non-medicine and medicine related). We didn't really talk about anything on my applications in either interview, but my interviewer did compliment me on my personal essay."
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"I wasn't asked any difficult or interesting question. They were all straight-forward, pretty much off of my application (so I'm not sure how much more they actually learned about me other than that I can repeat what I've written)."
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"some studies related to alcholism and neurology were done in the past (interviewer gave more details), do you think they were ethical? how would you change it?"
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"Which of the many jobs I had on my application that I would choose to do full time if I didn't do medicine"
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"Can't remember. There weren't any surprises."
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"Why didn't you choose an Ivy League school for undergrad?
a question related to cultural competency"
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"If you could be cloned and your clone were to go into a career other than medicine, what would it be?"
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"Say you were to set up a free clinic in San Diego as a medical student along with a few of your med student friends and some medical interns, after sometime the clinic becomes exceedingly busy and eventually you exceed capacity. What about the San Diego healthcare system would cause this?"
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"What was your favorite course in college?"
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"Standard"
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"What is the biggest problem facing medicine?"
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"A few ethics questions."
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"All my questions were very background specific. THey were really trying to pull out what I found meaningful in each of my experiences. "
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"It was pretty basic"
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"Laid back, conversational interviews"
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"An ethical question about whether musicians should be allowed to take drugs to enhance performance."
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"Why medicine?"
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"What do you think about cloning? (I've done some cloning research)"
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"None really. We just had a conversation."
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"Performace enhancing drugs about musicians"
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"pretty basic questions. about my activities, my plans for medicine, etc. although one of my interviewers did ask me what i thought of the med school app process as a whole and how valid/effective i thought the various components (amcas, secondaries, mcats, gpa's, 15 activities, interviews, etc) were"
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"Mostly questions about my childhood in Yugoslavia"
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"something about why dartmouth and the location, i dont know i cant remember an interesting question"
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"If a musician is using drugs to help calm them down while they perform is that like an athlete using steroids?"
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"It was awhile ago, nothing seems to stick out."
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"Not really a question but one interviewer visited NYC on a regular basis. So we talked about driving routes to the school for a while."
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"What kind of research has more impact on medicine? Basic or clinical?"
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"How had medical school education changed in the past century?"
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"So tell you what you think is important about you, what you want me to know."
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"About the training of latino engineers in South America"
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"you overexteneded yourself in college.... will that be a problem here? (right after he told me that passing the premed courses at my school meant i wouldnt find med school hard)"
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"what was your senior (english) thesis about and when did you first start to love to read?"
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"the question and explanation relating to the non-traditional students at Dartmouth (see below)"
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"Nothing unusual."
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"Why do you want to come to Dartmouth when you have all those great schools in CA?"
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"What do you think is different about researching in science and researching in the liberal arts? (I was a history major.)"
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"none really"
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"Both of my interviews were conducted in a conversation/tell me about yourself like manner. Nothing difficult at all."
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"Why is ____ not a good school?"
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"Would you like a cup of coffee?"
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""There have been a lot of medical discoveries made using very deplorable research techniques (ie. Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments and Dr. Mengelev's Holocaust Studies)...what should we do with the information gained from these experiments?""
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"Tell me what you think about the cons of entering the
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"There were a couple of interesting question that centered around some of my past experiences."
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"What do you think we could do better as an admissions office?"
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"Tell me about your research? (Talking about the Tourette Syndrome studies I work on with the interviewer, who happened to be a pediatric neurologist)"
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What are your suggestions for the admissions office?