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"None"
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"How does my family feel about me moving to Chicago?"
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"If your house was on fire what would you take with you?"
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"You seem like you're very involved, how would you deal with the transition once you're in optometry school?"
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"If you were to encounter a personal tragedy during your time here at ICO, how would you deal with it and how would you prevent it from affecting your studies?"
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"When you were in college did you live on campus or at home? Did you live on-campus all your school years?"
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"What are you looking for in an optometry school?"
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"Start with when you were in high school, go up through undergrad, volunteering, and working experience and pretty much just discuss how you got here today."
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"Do you have family in Chicago"
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"give 3 reasons why ico should choose you over others."
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"what do you do in your free time?"
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"How do you see yourself practicing in the future?"
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"There are three schools in California, why did you bypass those three schools? Why not Berkeley?"
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"Why optometry? (Felt like I could really share with the interviewer my reasons)"
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"Is there a specialty you would like to go into?"
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"Name one person who has influenced you the most"
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"Something random about one of the activities I mentioned participating in."
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"Nothing really out of the ordinary. There were no trick questions. I think the question regarding why I withdrew was the most detailed question I had in any of my interviews."
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"How do you feel about the big age gaps between your siblings?"
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"Everything very basic."
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"Tell me more about your research. "
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"I believe I asked more questions than they did. "
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"The truth is that you need to understand that each question should be geared toward your showing them that you are interested in optometry."
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"None."
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"why were you a parttime student?"
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"Honestly...the interviewer will probably read your personal statement 15 minutes before your interview. Have this work FOR you. Read and re-read your essay 1000000 times. Be consistent, but not verbatim. They want to make sure your experiences were real and worthwhile. "
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"What's your favorite book?"
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"How have your parents/family supported you throughout this process?"
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"none, very straight forward"
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"What will you do if we accepted you?"
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"If you had to tell a patient bad news, how would you go about it."
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"Where do you see yourself in 10 years? Where do you plan to practice?"
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"Tell me about how your nontraditional majors (French and Art History) relate to the field of Optometry?"
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"Where is and why did you attend your college?"
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"None, really :) They're all pretty straight-forward."
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"I don't even recall many questions as the whole interview was like a long conversation. "
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"How would I describe the trend of my grades?"
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"What did you like about your high school years?"
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"Why do you want to do research and not just be an optometrist?"
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"What was your most rewarding experience in college?"
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"What are your main hobbies/interests?"
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"What is your philosophy on embracing diversity in the workplace?"
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"What are some of the challenges you that are going to face optometrists in the future?"
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"So if you're parents are from Nebraska, then why are they Bears fans?"
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"Specifics about what I do at work (I'm an optometric assistant).
and probably what classes I liked the least/most."
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"Why did you take the OATs twice? "
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"This interviewer's style was so informal that for me it was pretty much just a conversation, so no questions really stand out. "
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"Why should you be accepted at ICO?"
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"Are you interested in doing a residency?"
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"What is rodeo?"
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"Which class I had in undergrad which I was genuinely interested in but felt it did not meet my expectations at the end."
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"What is/or are your greatest accomplishments?"
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"Most of the questions were pretty standard, ''why do you want to be an optometrist'' etc. It was realy more of a conversation. I think I asked my interviewer more questions than she asked me!"
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"If tell the admissions committee three things about myself before they made their decision, what would it be?"
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