How many people interviewed you?
| Response Average | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 2.89 | 27 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| Positively | 24 |
| Negatively | 1 |
| No change | 2 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 3.41 | 27 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 7.45 | 20 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 8.86 | 21 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| In Person | 0 |
| Virtual | 1 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 5 minutes | 0 |
| 10 minutes | 2 |
| 15 minutes | 2 |
| 20 minutes | 3 |
| 25 minutes | 5 |
| 30 minutes | 11 |
| 35 minutes | 1 |
| 40 minutes | 0 |
| 45 minutes | 1 |
| 50 minutes | 0 |
| 55 minutes | 0 |
| 60+ minutes | 2 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| At the school | 26 |
| At a regional location | 0 |
| At another location | 1 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| One-on-one | 27 |
| In a group | 0 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| Open file | 12 |
| Closed file | 13 |
| Response Average | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 2.89 | 27 |
"Why dentistry ?"
"Tell me about yourself."
"How would you improve health care in the U.S.?"
"What is the biggest issue in dentistry now?"
"Why dentistry?"
"What will you do if you don't get accepted this year?"
"Any leadership positions?"
"Tell me about your research. "
"What are your weaknesses and strengths?"
"why do you want to be a dentist and what have you done to make sure you are certain of that decision?"
" What hobbies do you have?"
"Why do you want to be a dentist? What specific qualities to you possess that will make you a good dentist?"
"Why do you want to be a dentist?"
"Have you done research"
"Why do you want to be a dentist"
"Why have you chosen dentistry?"
"Of course, the question of the day: Why do you want to be a dentist?"
"Why do you want to be a dentist? Did you ever consider other fields?"
"How have you worked on your manual dexterity skills?"
"What makes you unique?"
"Were you involved in any extracurricular activities?"
"What is the biggest issue facing the dental field today?"
"What have you done to show interest in dentistry?"
"Do you like to travel?"
"What is an example of a leadership position you have been in?"
"What kind of shadowing experience(s) do you have and, to you, what would be the most important thing you learned from this experience?"
"Why should we pick you above everyone else? "
"Have you done any community service?"
"Why dentistry?"
"strengths and weaknesses?"
"Why do you want to be a dentist?"
"Manual dexterity?"
"What are your hobbies?"
"What are your plans for the immediate future"
"What are your hobbies"
"What is your most significant achievement to date?"
"Have you considered other options besides dentistry? Are you applying anywhere else? If you weren't accepted, what would you do then?"
"Why did you choose MUSC? Did you apply anywhere else? Where? Have you been on this campus before? Do you know anyone who attends or attended here? (It's very good if you do; however, I didn't)"
"Tell me about your extracurriculars, service, leadership (all 3 at once)"
"Why MUSC? and Is this your top choice?"
"Do you participate in anything that would improve your manual dexterity?"
"What dental related service opportunities have you participated in?"
"Why dentistry?"
"What will you do if you do not get in this year?"
"Discuss a problem you have encountered in a group setting and how was it resolved?"
"Why do you want to come to MUSC and why do you think you would be a good fit?"
"What will you do if you don't get accepted this year? "
"If you can change something about yourself, what would it be?"
"How do you know you want to go into dentistry?"
"hobbies?"
"what are your passions and what activities are you involved in?"
"What will you do if you aren't accepted this year?"
"Community service that you've done?"
"What do you see yourself doing in 10 years?"
"What will you do if you are not accepted?"
"What if you dont get in?"
"What do your parents do"
"Who are your role models, other than your parents? "
"What are your strengths? Your weakness? Do you have any skills that demonstrate manual dexterity?"
"Tell me about you family"
"The questions were pretty standard they really just wanted to get to know you and figure out what brought you there"
"They were all pretty standard."
"Was really specific to my application: "What was your favorite part of studying abroad?""
"What motivates you to do the best you can every day?"
"what are some issues that face the dental profession in the future?"
"What is one of your biggest pet peeves?"
"If you were planning a dinner party and could invite 5 guests, dead or living, who would you invite and why?"
"Have you seen any obnoxious patients while shadowing?"
"If you were to host a dinner for four people, dead or alive, who would it be?"
"What qualities do you look for in other people?"
"Specifics of my research - alcohol research"
"why do you think we should choose you to be in our class?...twice..."
"I had three different interviews and each interviewer asked almost the same questions. "
"Tell me about yourself"
"Do you have any questions?"
"What are your weaknesses and strengths?"
"With you having so many strengths, is there any room for weaknesses??"
"Why do you want to be a dentist"
"What has been your most significant achievement to date?"
"What has been your most significant achievement so far?"
"One of my interviewers jokingly went down his interview checklist asking me: Are you mentally stable? Are you intelligent? Any emotional problems?...."
"Tell me about your extracurriculars, service, leadership (all 3 at once) just because it was all three at once"
"How are you going to handle the stress of not doing well with the manual dexterity part of dentistry when you begin waxing? (aka you're great in school can you handle not being good at something)"
"What do you think would be the most challenging part of dental school?"
"What would you do if you were to not get in this cycle?"
"What is the biggest issue in dentistry?"
"What is my motivation for dentistry?"
"What characteristics do you think a dentist should have? How do you show these characteristics?"
"What is the most difficult situation you have ever been in?"
"None of my questions were really difficult. MUSC adcom members are really good at making you feel relaxed,comfortable, and welcome during interviews and the lunch with faculty and students."
"Have you taken biochemistry? (I dropped it--he knew it. :)) "You should really take it", he said. "
"With a stable job that you have, why do you want to go for dentistry?"
"None, all were standard questions. "
"where will you practice?"
"the second time i was asked, "why do you think we should choose you to be in our class?" "
"Do you have any questions?"
"What would you do if you weren't accepted into this school?"
"What are you weaknesses and strengths?"
"With experience in a hospital, how come you are not drawn to medicine?"
"weaknesses"
"What are your hobbies"
"What has been your most significant achievement to date?"
"What was it that made you decide you wanted to be a dentist?"
"Are you familiar with what a dental student does? (This was worded very vaguely and I didn't know how to answer.)"
"Google and SDN. Mentally preparing myself for possible questions that they might ask."
"Mock interviews, connected with current students, and visited the school prior to the interview"
"SDN, people I know who go there."
"Review questions and body language techniques"
"researched school, sdn"
"Good night rest..."
"Went over my accomplishments from the year before since I was reapplying to dental schools and decided not to have answers already in mind for questions. I wanted to be completely natural."
"Nothing really. Get a new tie? "
"student doctor, mock interview"
"Looked at their website. Looked at researchers I was interested in working with. "
"SDN"
"mock interview, this website, the bulletin, students who had recently interviewed etc."
"This website. Several other online pre-dental sites"
"This website, mock interview, practice w/ friends"
"studentdoctor.net feedback, brochure, ask faculty members over summer"
"this website, other websites, speaking to my dentist"
"I studied interview threads from SDN, current dental students, read the school's website."
"Read the forums on this website"
"This website, kaplan book, mock interview"
"Read about the school, Used this website and read past interview questions not only for this school, but also others. "
"looked at school's website, mock interview, used this website"
"The friendliness of all the admissions committee, faculty, and students. Southern hospitality!"
"The facility were great, the building and technology were top notch and the students really love being there."
"The faculty, staff and students are the nicest people. Also, the clinic is relatively new and very spacious."
"Wet lab is open all night for you to practice/ work on your assignments and everything really"
"Clinic"
"Brand new clinic, students were friendly and happy to be there."
"The friendly environment from staff and students."
"friendly faculty and student body, the campus"
"The extra efforts made to ensure we were all comfortable."
"How everyone at MUSC from faculty, students, and staff are so helpful and accommodating to all applicants. The new clinical building being built is quite stellar as well."
"The comforting nature of the professors and students. "
"faculties put you at ease"
"People are really nice there. All their combined degree students are fully funded and have their own NIH grants. The facilities are ok. "
"The faculty was extremely friendly. They are building a new clinical facility. The campus is beautiful. "
"the faculty seems to be genuinely interested and concerned with the well being of the students, and they were extremely friendly, the city is great (i'm from there), and they've recently recieved a number of NIH grant funds for oral cancer research."
"The labs are being updated. Charleston is gorgeous. I've heard from local dentists that the MUSC faculty was unusually friendly, and I found that to be the case. "
"The people were friendly and relaxed, the atmosphere was good"
"easy going nature of the interviewers. They were all very kind and personable. The questions were very straight forward. "
"They are building a new dental clinic and seemed optimistic the next class would use it by 2008."
"How super friendly the ADCOMs were."
"Laid back attitude of the interviewers"
"Faculty are very helpful and concerned about students"
"The staff and faculty are very friendly. The chair of the admissions committee makes it clear that they are not there to make you nervous and that philosophy shows in the interviews. They're much more conversational than interrogational. "
"Most everyone seemed very nice, and the students we talked with were very helpful. The interview day is designed to be very informative. The equipment seems up to date even if the building is old."
"My interviewers asking me almost all the same questions"
"nothing! It is expensive but I think it is worth it."
"Honestly nothing."
"After a warm introduction by Dr. Javed, it felt as though my Interviewers weren't all that interested in getting to know me. I'm sure they're busy people, but my interviews didn't seem like a priority to them. Students that I know at MUSC all told me the interviews there are more like conversations, but I did not have that experience. Others in my group had a lot of great things to say about their interviews, so luck of the draw, I guess."
"Parking"
"Parking.... nothing to do with the school though. "
"Nothing really. "
"current clinical facility is very out of date. "
"there are no externship abroad opportunities, the new clinical facilities will not be built for another 3 years, they lost funding for some of their community outreach programs, and they don't permit non-work/study part time jobs for their students."
"Some people refer to the older facilities as being a problem, but I'm not convinced that it's any real concern."
"nothing"
"The clinics are extremely old but they are building a new one next door!"
"The building is kind of old"
"Facilities are quite old"
"Nothing really other than learning that there is no way that the class I would be entering with will be able to utilize the new dental building since they are still waiting on funding and ground hasn't been broken yet."
"The location. The surrounding area is not very nice. The campus is great, but the building of the college of dental medicine is old. However, they are building a new state-of-the-art facility for it that should open in 2007, I think."
"That the interviewers would ask the same questions and how to approach that"
"How laid back it all would be!"
"I wish I knew how laid back it was going to be. I wouldn't have been as anxious during the days leading up to the interview."
"I prepared as well as I could have, so there is not much that I wish I would have known ahead of time."
"N/A"
"The exact location"
"that it was so laid back"
"Nothing really. "
"nothing in particular."
"Parking seems a little difficult."
"they don't serve breakfast, you will have downtime where you will just chat with other students there to interview"
"Nothing, I had toured before."
"um..... i dont know"
"They don't provide breakfast"
"Nothing. This is the second time I applied. "
"Charleston can be hard to navigate through with all the one-way streets, and that the interviews aren't as stressful as I thought they were."
"I fell in love with MUSC during the interview! Great city, school, technology, and people"
"This is great program!"
"This is the most laid back dental school interview you will ever experience."
"This school is very expensive, however is well worth the cost. Faculty and students are extremely down-to-earth."
"Comparing the costs to other schools I've applied to, there are schools that are cheaper to attend out of state than to stay in SC."
"Top notch school"
"Great experience. They were very good at not giving you a reason to be nervous."
"It was a cool interview. Very laid back and the students were really cool. "
"Very relaxed. Interviews were conversations and flowed well. The interviewers did not try to make me nervous. "
"dr. javed is only a 5 minute interview. the other two lasted about 25 min, the first of which was very conversational and friendly, the latter was more her writing and me answering (very little eye contact)."
"I showed up 15 minutes early as was one of the last interviewees to arrive. They took my picture, then showed me to a conference room to join the rest of the applicants. The room was dead silent... Dr. Javed explained how the day would go, and we had a short presentation from the financial aid specialist. Then I had 3 different interviews. Plan on some down-time in between interviews. After my interviews, we had lunch and met with the rest of the admissions committee along with a few students. Afterwards, we had some time to talk with students without faculty present. Next we toured the Dental History museum and toured the relevant portion of the campus."
"It was a very relaxed day. I arrived 30 minutes early and nobody was there yet. I obtained a packet of information, got my picture taken, and then someone came in to discuss financial aid. After that, Dr. Javed came in and told us what to expect for the day. We were given a schedule and went in and out depending on the time of the interview. I was accepted on December 1st. "
"The faculty and staff do a great job of easing everyone's anxiety level. Day begins with a talk from financial services, then Dr. Javed comes and gives a introduction. Then the interviews go until lunch. A campus tour after lunch with a student was great and insightful. Then if you had an afternoon interview, you would finish with that and head home. Jill Stevens was there all day and answered everyone's questions honestly. Great help!"
"The interview started with a brief meeting that really helped your relax and to realize that they interviewers want to impress you as much as you want to impress them. It's a very friendly process. The faculty just wants to know how much you really want to be a dentist. "
"The interviews were really laid back. You meet with the head adcom for 10 mins and interview. He asks about your GPA and DAT. THen the 2 other interviews last 20-30 mins and they ask more personal questions."
"They try to make it as laid back as possible, the interview is more like a conversation."
"The faculty are great, the facilities are old, Charleston is a beautiful place."
"The day begins at 8:30AM. You'll want to arrive earlier to get your interview schedule, name tag, and to have your picture taken for their reference. Dr. Javed, the chair of the admissions committee, will give a brief intro and then Jerone McDaniel will then go over Financial Aid Services. Then from 9AM to noon are interviews. At noon, prospective applicants, professors and current dental students have lunch. After awhile, the professors will leave and the current dental students will field questions from applicants until 1PM. At 1PM is the campus tour and then interviews continue from 2 to 3PM. Depending on the schedule you receive, you could be done with interviews before lunch. "
"A positive one. Overall, I was impressed with the school and its faculty. I look forward to attending there."
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| Student | 23 |
| Faculty member | 0 |
| Admissions staff | 3 |
| Other | 0 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| Enthusiastic | 17 |
| Neutral | 2 |
| Discouraging | 0 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 8.47 | 19 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| In state | 14 |
| Out of state | 4 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 0-1 hour | 7 |
| 2-3 hours | 4 |
| 4-6 hours | 4 |
| 7+ hours | 1 |
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| Airplane | 1 |
| Automobile | 13 |
| Train or subway | 2 |
| Other | 2 |
CHS
n.a
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| At school facility | 0 |
| With students at the school | 0 |
| Friends or family | 1 |
| Hotel | 8 |
| Home | 2 |
| Other | 1 |
Best western Charleston Inn
Yes
Best western Charleston Inn
Yes
| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| < $100 | 7 |
| $101-$200 | 5 |
| $201-$300 | 0 |
| $301-$400 | 0 |
| $401-$500 | 1 |
| $501+ | 0 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 9.00 | 21 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 9.38 | 21 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 9.29 | 21 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 9.64 | 14 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 9.79 | 14 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 7.50 | 14 |
"Communication within interviewers to not ask the same questions. This made it easier on my end, but I think they would learn more about canidates if they asked different questions."
"None!"
"None."
"More timely response regarding standing. However, I understand why they hold out until more interviews have taken place."
"Keep up the good work! Your hospitality is impressive."
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