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"A 22 year old female comes into your practice with a badly fractured front tooth, she desperately wants to save it. The more you look her over, you realize there is no saving this tooth and it must be extracted. How do you tell her?"
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"It was pretty straight forward interview"
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"What do you think is a challenge/issue facing dentistry?"
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"pretty straightforward."
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"What positives and negatives are present in your application?"
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"Name a time where you were faced with an ethical issue to deal with"
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"What do you think about peer and self evaluation?"
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"What is something you do not like about dentistry?"
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"What hobbies do you have?"
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"What is your best college memory?"
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"None... I was able to ask questions for about 15 minutes."
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"What other job that is related to art would you do if you couldn't do dentistry"
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"what songs can you play on your ukulele "
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"Do you think current technology is absolutely essential to practice effective dentistry?"
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"Where do you see yourself in ten years? Are you interested in returning to teach?"
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"What did your dad do in the few year gap between undergrad and dental school?"
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"Why would you make a good dentist?"
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"I was asked what the color of a shirt meant, what movies I had seen recently, and what I had for lunch"
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"What brand of guitar I played.
What songs do you play?"
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"One interviewer was wondering if i had pictures of some of my work (don't wanna disclose what, cuz it'll give me away), and I ended up showing him"
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"Share ur teaching experience with us. (In-depth)"
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"nothing too interesting, really"
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"none"
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"very informal basically just answered the ''tell me about yourself'' with some follow up questions."
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"In what way have you assisted the dentist you shadowed?"
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"PBL: If someone in your group wasn't pulling their weight, what would you say to them to get them to pull their weight?"
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"How do you know you can handle the stress of dental school"
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"What is your favorite college football team? (because i said i liked watching college football)"
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"What can you play on the piano?"
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"Where does IU fall in your dental decision (first, second, etc) and what do we need to do to entice you here over other schools?"
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"Tell me about your artistic abilities."
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"What was your favorite liberal arts class in college?"
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"What's a cavity? "
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"If you could tell the admissions committee one thing about yourself, what would it be?"
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"So what do you know about the PBL curriculum?"
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"You presented a poster at the AACR conference, tell us about your research"
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"What do you like to do in your free time?"
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"Can't remember"
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"From your experiences in the dental clinic, what do you dislike about dentistry?"
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"Explain to me what PBL is since you sort of know it."
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"Do you know who Parks Bonifay is?"
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"You have a someone come in with their family and the individual is complaining of a bad mouth odor what would you do to solve the problem of what is causing the odor."
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"Just talked about what I've been doing."
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"So you helped a student from Depaul feel welcome at your school? Tell us about that?"
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""What would you like us to know about yourself?"
Also, "It looks as if you have a weak science background. What makes you think you're cut out for dental school?" (note: I have a biochemistry major)"
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"What would you do if you do not get in this year?"
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"Nothing really"
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"How did you study for DAT?"
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"When comparing the offices you have visited what impressed you, and what do you feel are problems that will have to be addressed in the future concerning dentistry?"
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"you wrote about *blank* in your essay, explain that further since it is a link not many people would make"
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"What will be that hardest thing for you if you should relocate to Indiana?"
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"It says here that you worked in pest control. We don't see that very often. Tell us about that."
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"What are your strengths and weaknesses?"
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"How does tutoring Middle School students relate to the field of Dentistry?"
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"What was your favorite science class?"
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"Do you have any friends in dental school? "
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"I was asked about my manual dexterity."
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"Is any friend of yours in any dental school? what does he/she have to say about being a dental student?"
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"have you taken a course that integrated PBL before? if so, describe."
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"So, was Russia really cold? ( After seeing that i had lived there.)"
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"They gave me a Problem Based Learning scenario & let me run with it."
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"Asked a question directly from my personal statement. It suprised me when I realized they had looked at my application in such detail. One of the interviewers even qouted a line from my essay."
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"What is Jungle Friends? (a primate sanctuary I volunteered at)"
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"what stroke do you swim?"
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"Have you seen the movie "Drumline?"--This was after the fact of taking about marching band."
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"They gave me a senario dealing with the PBL program. They gave me a hypothetical question and I had to use critical thinking to solve the dental problem."
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"Did you bring your oboe?"
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"What do you like to do for fun?"
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"Why Fencing?"
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"so you said that you have a lot of manual dexterity skils...tell me about them"
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"Wasn't asked anything interesting."
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"Problems facing dentistry"
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"Nothing too interesting."
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"Do you study for DAT?"
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"What do you do in your free time?"
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"What was your favorite class"
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"Nothing out of the ordinary"
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"Standard questions. Nothing out of the ordinary."
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"what is PBL?(after i mentioned that i had heard and liked the PBL system)"
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"Why Dentistry?"
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""How'd you manage to get a 29 in Reading Comprehension and a 17 in Perceptual?""
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"What do you think is the most prevalent problem with dentistry today?"
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"All questions were low key, general conversations. Very different from what I have heard of. "
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