"Make the virtual tour a bit longer, it was only around 5-10 minutes."
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"Drop the BS/MD program. I have met a few genuinely unpleasant participants as an undergrad. It just doesn't make sense how you can assess if they'd fit in well through an interview during high school."
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"Tell your faculty interviewers to review the applicants file before asking questions that are all stated in the application"
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"None. They go above and beyond for students"
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"Give a little more info in the standardized patient scenario...have the actors give you more detail about the person's life so conversation comes a little easier."
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"You guys are amazing, thank you for making this a truly special interview experience."
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"None"
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"No suggestions."
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"Keep doing exactly what you're doing."
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"Nothing - the admissions office was really great. They responded promptly, helped when I needed it, and were knowledgeable about any topic I had questions on."
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"Give applicants more choices of dates to interview. I got called and asked if I could come in on one specific day."
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"Admissions office could be a bit more bright and enthusiastic in their letters and communications. They were not mean, but compared to other programs I looked at, they came off as being a little bit too reserved."
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"When you call, make sure to have your AMCAS number ready. If you're very interested, e-mail Dr. Beckman and express your interest. Also, on your secondary, don't be afraid to be yourself! Diversity of their student body is one of their main focuses, so really show them who you are!!"
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"Post-acceptance information from the school could be more timely. I thought I would get more information after submitting my deposit, but I'm still waiting for more information."
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"Don't have any..."
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"Emailed Letters instead of snail mail, although there is something satisfying about getting an actua"
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"Who cares how eco-friendly application materials are?
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"online status updates"
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"They are not that responsive on the phone but when you are there everybody is really nice."
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"I interviewed on the second day of interviews. It would have been nice to have a little better organ"
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"It would have been nice to receive a complete email and to have access to a status page."
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"Maybe allotting an extra 10 min between interviews. Mine were far apart and ran over = run! lol"
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"Sometimes things are a little slow here, but I think that's to just be expected. They were more tha"
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"The online secondary needs work. not user friendly"
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"Don't send your interviewees to the wrong building for their interview!"
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"Please make your online secondary application interface more user friendly."
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"Revise the secondary-it's hard to use."
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"The Secondary application is AWFUL in functionality. AWFUL."
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"The secondary application is not user-friendly at all. It would be much better if this was redesigne"
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"well, the woman in charge of admissions' computer crashed the friday before my interview, and she le"
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"Directions to the Admissions office would have been nice. Even with the address my student host had"
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"My interviewer was swamped with patients while I was there, so it might be a good idea to make sure"
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"Oh, where do I begin?"
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"Either decrease the length of the tour or do the tour first. 90 minutes seemed a little excessive fo"
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"Always give a ''recruitment speech'' to the applicants."
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"I don't see why we have to send in a paper copy of our AMCAS. 16 pages times 1000s of applicants ="
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"What do you do for fun/ how would you describe yourself? (overall trying to get a sense of your personality/ social skills)"
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"Really relaxed interview"
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"What is your overall goal in a career in medicine and how can Tulane help you achieve this goal? (something along those lines)"
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"What type of impact do you want to have on medicine and how will Tulane help you achieve it?"
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"I will list off a class name and you tell me your grade. (this part was really dumb, i told him i majored in neuroscience and he only listed off cell bio major classes)"
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"A question about my experience working with people who are culturally different from me."
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"Very conversational but classic why medicine was a common theme"
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"My faculty interviewer barely asked me any questions. I basically explained my motivations for medicine to him, and then he told me about his life lmao. My student interviewer was super cool though! Asked me the typical qs (why medicine, why tulane, idk)"
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"Is there anything you want me to know about you or your application?"
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"Asked about my family and some extracurricular activities on my application"
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"What was the genesis of your interest in medicine?"
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"Why Tulane? Why New Orleans?"
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"What is most interesting service activity that you have engaged in?"
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"I know nothing about you. Tell me about yourself."
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"Since they don't know anything about you, they pretty much just start off with the basics. I've been out of school, so they wanted to know what I've done since then and that pretty much covered the 30 minutes. It was basically the same interview three times."
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"Why Tulane?
I was asked this in every interview. Make sure you spend time researching this question so you can hit it out of the park when they ask you."
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"Why Tulane? Have you been to New Orleans before? What have you done while here? <---You will definitely be asked all three questions. If possible, I recommend coming early the day before your interview and visiting sites in the area (or looking up things you'd like to do if this isn't possible). Be able to vocalize why you want to be at Tulane - it is a very unique school in a unique city, and as such, I feel that the school is looking for a particular type of unique student to fit into both."
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"Have you ever been to New Orleans? Why Tulane? (everyone asked me this--they very much want to know that you want to go to Tulane)"
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"You seem to be quite the world traveller. Tell me about the places you've been..."
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"Why are you interested in Medicine?
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"very conversational.... lots of open ended questions. The interview started with the typical, "So tell me about yourself.""
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"Just the generals."
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"Why Tulane? This one is very important according to my interviewer. "
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"What community service are you involved in?"
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"Some of the Deans want to require a research thesis to graduate. What do you think of that?"
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"GPA "
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"Why Tulane/New Orleans?"
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"Why did you apply to Tulane? What is your MCAT/GPA?"
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"Why do you think we chose to interview you?"
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"Conversation...just asked why tulane, about my life, etc."
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"Why do you think we selected you out of all our applicants from California?"
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"Community service?"
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"List some of your community service involvement."
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"do you play a musical instrument?"
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"Do you play an instrument?"
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"I have been out of school for four years, so I was asked why did I want to go back to school now."
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"What is the last book you have read?
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"Do you really know what you're getting into?"
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"Will your significant other be coming with you to medical school?"
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"What do you look for when you apply to medical schools & how does that affect your decision to attend Tulane?"
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"Are you really willing to come back to New Orleans after everything that has happened?"
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"how did you learn about tulane?"
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"Tell me about yourself, why do you want to be a doctor?"
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"Tell me about yourself."
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"Nothing other than typical stuff from the essay and AMCAS."
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"Tell me about yourself. This prompt led to "what kind of books do you read?"."
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"Why medicine"
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"Where else have you interviewed?
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"Favorite president? Why?"
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"GPA? MCAT? (This despite assurances that our interviews were assessments of personality, not numbers.)"
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"Where is your name from? Tell me about yourself? whats your mcat/gpa?"
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"name? school? hometown? "
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"Why should Tulane take you?"
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"About my activities in college"
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"What other languages can you speak?"
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"Why go out of CA?"
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"If I reccommend that you get into Tulane and you are accepted, can you guarantee me that you will attend 100%"
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"very, very typical interview questions. I really wish I could be more specific, but honestly nothing was surprising. My student interviewer really seemed to want to answer all of my questions."
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"What would you bring to Tulane?"
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"It's Friday night, what are you doing?....It's Saturday night, what are you doing?"
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"Tell me about yourself, this is for you to share whatever you want."
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"Why tulane?"
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"What was your favorite class and why?"
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"why tulane? why medicine? explain your research"
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"tell me about who you are"
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"Why medicine and why Tulane?"
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"Tell me about yourself. How do you propose to deal with the onslaught of information presented to you in medical school?"
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"So why didn't you apply right out of college?"
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"Asked why I married my wife, i.e., what I liked about her. I could think of a million reasons, but somehow they didn't come to me in the middle of an interview."
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"You want to give yourself to medicine, what do you expect to get in return?"
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"see above for difficult questions. my cognitive psych guy did much more talking than me, analyzing my hand motions and my body positioning. "
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"what did you get on mcat verbal? (i had forgotten)"
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"Name the top 3 reasons you want to go into medicine."
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"so why tulane? why new orleans?"
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" Tell me about yourself."
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"None. It's supposed to be a combo of open and closed file, but nobody who interviewed me had reviewed my file due to scheduling mix-ups, so it was truly just a short conversation on repeat."
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"my interviewer talked to me about his life, I take it it depends on who you get"
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"Faculty asked me very specific questions about my secondary responses, not necessarily difficult but I could tell that they really cared about my experiences"
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"Tell me more about your volunteer and laboratory work"
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"Literally none the faculty are just checking off boxes"
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"I was asked about my cultural background and my hobbies, which was fun to answer."
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"Some questions about my research?"
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"Tell me about your family and what your spouse does? (Would they want to move to New Orleans?)"
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"none really"
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"How I felt about some psychosocial realities faced by people to day that were the result of X and Y history of treatment. It was just a really cool discussion on something that came up during the interview that the interviewer (faculty) talked with me about"
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"The interviewer asking me when I got to Tulane (I spent the weekend there); the interviewer telling me how I clearly didn't value the school because I didn't spend more than a few days there (I was a full time student) and that I was just wasting everyone's time by even being there."
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"How will you change the world"
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"One of the interviewers spoke about the situation concerning the crime in New Orleans and what could be done about it in the midst of Katrina, return of businesses, etc."
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"None too interesting. Mostly a conversation."
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"If you interview with Dr. Owens, heads up that he might throw out some random questions (i.e, Wanna bet that I know where you got your shoes?)"
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"Questions about travel, languages"
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"Nothing interesting, really"
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"NA"
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"In all my interviews, we went on really interesting, seemingly random tangents. But I do that in normal conversation all the time, and since it really was a conversational interview, it doesn't surprise me this happened. Gee, I hope it doesn't hurt me :/"
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"Medical school can be time-consuming, and you seem to have a lot of energy. How do you think you will maintain that energy level in medical school?"
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"How did your parents meet?"
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"The city of New Orleans is recovering from Katrina very nicely, but some people see it as a work in progress. How do you feel about working in this type of environment and what examples can you give from your experiences that show "being involved in building something great" suits you?"
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"What do you know about Tulane's history?"
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""What classes other than science courses did you take?" I majored in non-science, so when you eliminate my major and all my science classes, there aren't many left.... I mumbled something about economics!"
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"nothing. My interviewer winked at me after the interview lol...and I got in! AMEN!"
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"What would you do after a test block to relax?"
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"Do you want to come see this patient with me?"
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"Why Tulane? (Of course they'd ask this one, but I thought it was the most important one so I had to throw it in somewhere!)"
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"Are you Jewish?"
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"Very straightforward... very much just a conversation - little actual questioning."
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"Why New Orleans?"
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"None"
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"If you had 90 seconds to tell the president of the United States what he could do to improve the lives of America's children, what would you say?"
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"The interviews were more of a conversation in which the topics all lead into each other which was not at all what I was expecting."
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"What type of medicine do you see your self practicing? Where will you be in 10 years?"
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"Nothing"
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"Standard questions: What do your parents do, why tulane, any siblings, medical experience. Very disinteresting"
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"Tell me about your family"
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"What do you think medicine is?
(This was after the interviewer said that he thought that medicine worked because of love)"
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"What DIDN'T you like about your undergrad institution?"
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"One interviewer actually had me list off my volunteering experiences. "
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"typical interview"
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"Nothing really out of the ordinary"
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"No real zingers. Just started off with my background and story and followed the tangents where they went. "
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"Have you ever been to Latin America?"
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"Nothing really that interesting."
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"Why not sugarcane farming?"
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"My first interview lasted about 30 minutes. My second interviewer was called into a last minute meeting with the dean of Tulane University. I was able to sit down with him later that afternoon after the tour(about 230pm). We ended up talking until about 4pm. Felt like both interviewers got to know the "
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"Both of my interviews were very laid back. It really felt like I was just talking to someone at a park, not for a medical school interview. I was asked by one of my interviewers how bad the deliquency of Asian youth was in my hometown."
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"How has Katrina affected your decision to attend Tualne?"
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"So, what should I tell the adcom about you?"
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"What does your fiance think about you going to med school?"
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"Do you play an instrument?"
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"What was your favorite book from last year?"
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"Nothing stands out ... your typical interview questions."
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"Tell me about your previous trips to New Orleans."
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"How do you feel about attending Tulane in light of Hurricane Katrina?"
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"Do you play a musical instrument?"
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"whats the most challenging situation youve experienced"
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"do you play any musical instruments"
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"New York is really different than the South. How do you think you can adjust to the Southern atmosphere?"
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"Do you know Kathy Wilson? (She works at Mayo Clinc with me), though I didn't know her, Dr. Beckman was very excited that I had ways of contacting all the physicians at Mayo and gave me an assignment of "finding Dr. Wilson.""
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"Do you play a musical instrument? They are big on music!"
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"How would you go about improving health care in India? (I had volunteered in India last summer)"
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"There were no real questions, mostly it was just conversational with questions thrown in the mix."
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"What do you do for fun?"
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"Where else have you applied that you would like to attend? Why?"
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"nothing really, it was pretty basic."
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"Explain how the hurricane effected you and your family"
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"Nothing, really"
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"I don't remember any questions standing out as really interesting or peculiar."
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"Nothing unusual. "
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"What is your best asset?
followed by
What is your worst asset?
Do you like mysteries?"
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"Where did you rank in your high school class?"
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"Will you apply to medical school again if not accepted?"
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"I notice you are clenching your hands. Are you nervous?"
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"So you're pretty set at other schools (accepted to), so why do you want to come here?"
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"Have you thought about applying to McGill?"
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"Nothing really"
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"Questins about my volunteering experience"
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"Have you ever been to an arena football game?"
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"We mostly talked about travelling."
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"tell me about yourself"
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"Why medicine?"
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"Who is your favorite president? Why? "
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"Nothing out of the ordinary, no ethical questions"
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"How will you respond to potentially racist patients?"
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"Nothng interesting"
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"How do you deal with stress?"
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"Everything was pretty normal and basic."
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"they were all pretty average -- tell me about yourself, what are your interests, etc. the student interviewer asked me, if i had a 5 gallon jug and a 3 gallon jug...how would i get 4 gallons. but it was kind of a joke :)"
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"How will you react at 3 in the morning when you have to go attend to a patient?"
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"Why do you think can be done to keep out-of-state students trained at Tulane from returning to their home states?"
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"Do you think you and Ayn Rand share a similar philosophy?"
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"Do you smoke? (I don't, but I found the question odd)"
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"Are you married? Are you wearing earrings? Are your heels very high? (By the navy dude.)"
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"standard stuff"
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"Honestly, nothing terribly out of the ordinary."
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"Are you married? (Inappropriate, but I answered anyway)"
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"I discussed the various open alcohol containter laws in New Orleans w/ my first interviewer. Interesting question from my second interviewer was regarding my school (which she graduated as well)."
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"what book are you reading right now?"
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"Have you noticed an increase in smoking among student populations? Do you smoke? Apparently the interviewer i had asks everyone this. Older conservative doc, not mean or anything just a little odd in his interview"
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"Tell me about your friends."
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"Do you smoke?"
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"What are you reading right now?"
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"Standard ?s"
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"None really."
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"Nothin' much. The usual stuff comes up since you only have a half hour per interviewer."
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"Nothing unusual"
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"Are you bringing your boyfriend with you to medical school??"
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"I really don't think there were many pointed questions. All of the interviews were very conversational and engaging."
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"How do you think you would cope with living in New Orleans?"
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"If I had ever had a drug or alcohol problem. Just a quick question but still weird. "
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"all the questions are really typical. everything that everyone else has said about tulane interview is true. they dont grill you AT ALL. just be prepared to talk about yourself. "
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"Do you have a man chasing after you!?"
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"Are you married?! (asked by OLD navy guy, he knew he wasn't supposed to)"
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"Why do want to go to medical school after getting a masters degree"
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"What is your GPA, MCATs? Where did you interview, were you accepted?"
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"How is your dating life?"
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"None really...I wasnt really asked any questions (read belo)"
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"Nihongo dekimasuka? (Do you speak Japanese?)"
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"Did you like the movie Castaway?"
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"none-just basic interview stuff... why medicine? why tulane? etc."
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"who are you?"
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"What do your parent's do? Tell me about your siblings."
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"Do you think northerners have a prejudice against the south?"
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"Nothing particularly interesting, just normal getting-to-know-you stuff."
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"Why have you spent so much time volunteering in the community? (trying to understand my motivations) Pretty easy question."
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"You have stated that you are interested in research. What exactly do you plan to study?"
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"Why Tulane?"
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"If by interesting you mean not interesting:
Recent medical journals have shown a trend on college campuses of an increase in smoking over the last five years where smoking had decreased on college campuses for the previous 10 years. What are you thoughts?"
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"One of my interviewers asked me what my specific stats were (MCAT, GPA, etc) which I thought was odd because the interviews are intentionally closed file for a reason. Oh well I got in anyways."
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"How is the weather in Salt Lake? ( I Don't live in Salt Lake)"
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"None, really conversational interviews and nothing off the wall."
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""You're an only child, are you spoiled?""
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"All that I was asked was "Tell me about yourself" or some paraphrased version of that"
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"What will it take for you to come here?"
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"No particular question comes to mind. In both interviews and the "working lunch," we just talked about family and interests. "
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"standard questions"
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"talk about recent books/movies you have read/seen"
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"If got into a UC school (I'm from CA) and Tulane where would I go."
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"What books are you currently reading?"
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"pretty standard questions, mostly conversational. Not at all like the Spanish Inquisition."
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"Have you ever met any doctors who are frustrated with their career choice? Why do you think that is?"
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"Nothing really - just tell me about yourself."
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"So you did well on your MCATs and took very few science courses...how did you do that?"
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"Nothing too difficult. Mainly tell me about yourself questions."
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"I was asked some pretty interesting questions about my hometown in PA. Of course, I wasn't able to answer them because I don't know all that much about my town's history."
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"All the interivews were pretty much, "So tell me about yourself". I had prepared for some of the more difficult/ annoying questions but none of them came up."
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"What would you add to the class that no one else can? They really like having a diverse class of students."
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"What do think the future of medicine will be like?"
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"Do you or have you ever smoked? Smoked what i asked"
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"How do you feel about the impact of the casino industry on your hometown? (dockside gambling was legalized a bit over 10 years ago where i grew up)"
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"Does your sister have a boyfriend?"
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"They didn't really go out of their way to ask "interesting" questions. It was pretty relaxed, get-to-know-you kind of stuff. I guess the only exception I can think of was "what prejudices do you carry with you about the south?""
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"What absolutely mekes you unique and different from a cookie-cutter applicant?
(they really look for diversity in their class)"
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"What do you like best and least about X, Y, and Z cities? (three places where both my interviewer and I had lived)"
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"All of the questions were geared toward getting to know me."
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"How do you feel about being in classes where the students are much younger than you? "
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"Well the second interview was quite sureal: What's up with your hair? How much do you weigh? (after telling me that I could never be a wrestler since I'm kinda small to be one) Not stressful...just sureal. "
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"ok, i got interviewed by a cognitive psychiatrist and a psyco immunologist. none of the questions were "interesting." and many of them were confrontational."
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"Do you have a girlfriend?"
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"Why do you think you didn't get into medical school the first time?"
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"Nothing really--it was very conversational. All my interviews were closed file, so everything was along the lines of "Tell me about yourself, your family, etc.""
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"All Tulane wants to know is if you fit their profile of a student at their school. They are looking for a unique and diverse student body. The interview was laid back and it was more of "what kind of person is this applicant.""
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"what is your favorite movie?"
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"Nothing really. Everything was conversational. Typical what do you have to offer, why medicine, why tulane tell me about yourself."
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"I was told that Tulane looks for students with good character. I was asked what examples from my life demonstrate my character."
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"None really - very conversational. "
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"Tell me about yourself."
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"Was English your first language?"
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"Whether or not I believed one of the methods mentioned in the novel Rising Tide (a book about the Mississippi River)was actually used to protect the city from flooding."
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"What are your talents outside of school? Are you an artistic person?"
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"So did you take any history or humanities courses?? Tell me about it- what books did you read in that class?"
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"I was asked, "Why do you want to be a doctor?" Followed immediately by, "Don't answer that question. I am tired of hearing rehearsed answers and both you and I know why you want to become a physician.""
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"Why did you choose to play the _________ ? <musical instrument. I was in band...>"
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"None - it was mostly, tell me about yourself, why medicine, that sort of thing."
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"what is your favorite book?"
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What are your suggestions for the admissions office?