Overall Experience

How did the interview impress you?

Response	# Responders
Positively	4
Negatively	0
No change	0

What was the stress level of the interview?

Response Avg	# Responders
5.50	4

0 = low, 10 = high

How you think you did?

Response Avg	# Responders
7.50	4

0 = low, 10 = high

How do you rank this school among ALL other schools?

Response Avg	# Responders
6.25	4

0 = low, 10 = high

Was this interview in-person or virtual?

No responses

Questions

How long was the interview?

Response	# Responders
5 minutes	0
10 minutes	0
15 minutes	0
20 minutes	0
25 minutes	0
30 minutes	2
35 minutes	0
40 minutes	0
45 minutes	0
50 minutes	0
55 minutes	0
60+ minutes	0

Where did the interview take place?

Response	# Responders
At the school	2
At a regional location	0
At another location	0

What was the style of the interview?

Response	# Responders
One-on-one	1
In a group	1

What type of interview was it?

Response	# Responders
Open file	0
Closed file	2

How many people interviewed you?

Response Average	# Responders
1.67	3

What is one of the specific questions they asked you (question 1)?

"Why pharmacy?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Why pharmacy/ why touro" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

What is one of the specific questions they asked you (question 2)?

"Why Touro?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"tell me about a time you had to make a difficult decision and what was the outcome" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

What is one of the specific questions they asked you (question 3)?

"Tell me about a time when you had to make a difficult decision" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

"Define public health." More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

What was the most interesting question?

"They read me the definition of 'health disparities' and said, Keeping this definition in mind, what should a pharmacist do to minimize health disparities?" More from this Member | Report Response | I was asked this question too

What was the most difficult question?

How did you prepare for the interview?

"Reading through SDN interviews, asked multiple friends and family to sit down and mock interview" More from this Member | Report Response

What impressed you positively?

"You get to work side by side with the DO students, the campus is open basically 24/7 to study. Come on its New York City who wouldn't want to study here? The Didactic program. Rotations in the biggest city in the USA, you are going to see some very unique medical problems that a small town can't offer." More from this Member | Report Response

"Faculty was very honest, they gave a very thorough introduction to the school. Current first years gave the tour. They had food for us." More from this Member | Report Response

What impressed you negatively?

"The outside of the building made me think to myself "This is a dump!" But once you get inside it is a beautiful school." More from this Member | Report Response

"Almost seemed like they were trying to hard to sell the school. The interviewers sat there and after i answered a question, they would write down a number in a box next to the question. yes, the gave me a SCORE.no notes, no nothing, just a number." More from this Member | Report Response

What did you wish you had known ahead of time?

"To double check the hotel I booked with, it was God awful! I didn't sleep a wink and had the biggest interview of my life the following morning. But it paid off, I'm in in!!!!!" More from this Member | Report Response

"That the interview would be so ... question, answer, question, answer." More from this Member | Report Response

What are your general comments?

"The professors and the staff seem really nice and the interview was not bad, but then again I'm always relaxed. Some people were freaking out! Just stay calm and do some breathing exercises." More from this Member | Report Response

"I guess it's bc they are a new school, they seem very passionate about teaching and about their students. However, it kind of turned me off that they were giving presentation after presentation saying why we should go to their school." More from this Member | Report Response

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