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"One interviewer asked me very standard questions and just wanted me to elaborate on my experiences, it was very conversational!"
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"all questions were about activities from my application as well as my background that I discussed in my personal statement"
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"Mostly conversational."
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"why Tufts? no, why Tufts?, but WHY TUFTS??!"
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"What is the difference between intelligence and knowledge and how has humanity changed with respect to these two variables over the course of human history?"
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"I'll just say that I was asked nothing about my grades/MCAT or even really any specifics about my application. I feel like I was rambling a lot. Don't know if that's good or bad...haha"
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"What is passion? life? compassion? logic?"
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"Why Tutfts, why medicine, other questions off of my applications"
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"What aspect other than simple competency is neccessary for a physician to posess."
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"tell me everything you want me to know about you."
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"what should be done to fix healthcare in the US"
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"Student interviewer asked pretty standard questiosn. Faculty interviewer didn't ask me much about medicine, more interested in me as a person and my interests. "
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"specific questions about my research, where else ive interviewed/been accepted, do you have questions for me"
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"see above."
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"I'm not sure there was one "most interesting" question that stood out over the others. I could say "What would you do if you [hypothetically] couldn't become a physician?" but that is a common question that I've had elsewhere."
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"Help me understand the fraternity system and defend its purpose to me. He told me to do this after asking about my experiences as president of my fraternity."
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"My faculty interviewer asked me a question about how primary care physicians have been responding to changes in healthcare, which sparked a pretty good discussion about the direction of healthcare in general."
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"A "what would you do in this difficult situation?" question"
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"Give me one question to ask my next interviewee."
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"Not sure"
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"The other interviewer I had was from Ireland. Mainly, we talked about cricket and how we hate England :D"
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"When did you start liking insects? (part of a long discussion with a cool psychiatrist on one of my high school hobbies)"
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"Talking about the state of medical practice today was interesting to me because I had the chance to relate my own experience in the medical device industry."
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"What have you heard about medical school? (process, student life, etc.)"
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"Define pain without examples to a 6-year old."
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"question about the experience of a friend I knew who was tested positively for HD (I worked on an HD outreach project in undergrad)"
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"Less of a question and more of a conversation about Dr. Groopman, an author and physician who the interviewer knew personally."
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"You have two patients, one who is very active and one who is obese and does not take care of himself. Both need heart transplants but only one can receive a heart. Which patient would you choose to receive a transplant?"
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"During your experience volunteering at the ER, have you seen anything that impressed you negatively (re medicine)?"
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"I took a few strange classes during college and I got asked about my motives for taking those."
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"Would you move to Boston if accepted?"
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"How to integrate your major with medicine?"
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"Healthcare policy"
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"Do you have any siblings? Tell me about them."
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"No crazy questions ... pretty conversational and relaxed interview styel"
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"What is the difference between morals and ethics?"
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"So what's with your calculus grade in Freshman year?"
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"What do you actually want to DO with your degree? "
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"Why public health?"
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"do you think it would be good if Hillary Clinton is elected president? (i know political questions are off limits, but i was okay with it)"
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"Define happiness."
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"What does life mean to you?"
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"Is there any other way to reach truth besides science?"
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"What are you most proud of?"
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"Why do you wear that livestrong bracelet?"
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"How do you feel about digital photography (both my interviews were interested in my photo experience)"
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"What is your favorite cello concerto? (upon my mentioning that my brother plays the cello)"
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"What would you do if you were on rounds and one of the residents gets asked a question about the patients labs, and you know that he doesn't know them, and he starts making up numbers."
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"Do you think modern day humans are more, equally, or less intelligent than cavemen?"
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"Why Boston?"
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"they were pretty laid back - there were no of those philosophical questions that other people were asked"
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"why medicine?"
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"Questions were fairly mundane."
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"What is water polo? (the sport I play)"
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"I was asked to solve a riddle (see below)."
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"What is the population in your region?"
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"Impressions of the whole application process."
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"What is a Vandy girl?!!!!! The best question I was ever asked in all my interviews. I am surprised I kept a straight face."
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"What did I think the meaning to life was?"
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"The intelligence of humanity question."
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"does everyone in the south look alike?"
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"with your unique cultural background how do you see yourself interacting with conflicting cultures in the hospital setting?"
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"What is ethics, what is morals? Who decides which?"
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"Where and how did my interest in medicine originate?"
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"What seperates humans from all other mammals? "
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"Tell me about your parents. (?? completely out of the blue...this was a first!)"
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"How has your work in student affairs affected your interest in medicine?"
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"Are we more intelligent, less intelligent, or equally intelligent as men living in the stone age?"
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"What are you scared of?"
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"basic questions about my application"
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"Are we more, less, or equally intelligent as those who lived in the stone age"
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"I was told to just talk about anything"
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"How will your major help you to be a doctor (I am not a Bio major)"
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"nothing all that out of the ordinary. my two interviews were pretty basic questions, but some other students had some really abstract philosophical questions (like "define the color blue", or "how do you situate yourself in life"....etc)"
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"What has today (the interview day) done to influence your perception of the school?
(They were very interested in student feedback throughout the day)"
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"What are sacrificing to go to med school?"
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"What do you think is better-a single evaluation based curriculum or a multi-evaluation curriculum (in response to my experiences studying abroad)"
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"How does your family influence you and your personality?"
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"What my friends would say if asked "what about her pisses you off the most?""
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"What is good bedside manner?"
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"What do you think will be the most challenging part of medical school for you?"
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"Tell me about your journey to deciding to apply to medical school."
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"There weren't any interesting questions."
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"Imagine that I were mentally challenged and blind. How would you describe pain to me without using synonyms?"
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"Imagine I am mentally challenged and blind. I am unable to comprehend complex terms. How would you describe physical pain to me?"
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"Several philosophical oriented questions: Define compassion, passion, the color red, morality v. ethics, sympathy v. empathy, etc."
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"What was the biggest failure in your college career?"
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"all fairly standard about stuff listed on my amcas app."
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"What aspect other than simple competency is neccessary for a physician to posess."
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"How do you feel about dirty needle programs"
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"Would you say I'm easy to read?"
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"Do you think we are more intelligent ,less intelligent, or as intelligent as people 20 000 years ago?"
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"Most were standard except for the question below."
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"What do you think will be the hardest part of medical school for you? "
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"So i hear you're a magician. Can you show me a magic trick?"
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"Do you dream in color or black and white?"
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"Given all the theater you did in college and before (a major extracurricular for me), will it be hard to give that up during medical school?"
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"Describe the color blue"
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"Can you tell me about something in your file that you would want to erase or do differently?"
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"What does your dad think about you applying to medical school(he is a physician)"
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"What would you ask if you were interivewing students in 30 years? How would you pick students? Are schools more or less similar now than they were 30 years ago?"
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"See rapid fire questioning above (passion/ethics/morality)"
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"What is Life? "
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"I was asked, "what do you want from your medical school education?" Obviously, I want my MD so I can practice medicince, but at the time I was unsure of what they were really trying to get at. It was clear to me later on that they want us to realize that we cannot necessarily learn everything we want in our education, rather we should learn the tools to help our continual learning experience, because medicine is a profession of continually new knowledge that we will have to absorb and accept."
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"nothing unusual."
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"why do you want to come to boston, if you live in NY?"
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"If God himself came down and told you you were not going to be a doctor, what would you do?"
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"What do you think of the Venezuelan people (I did research in Caracas)?"
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"There are a number of frustrations that physicians face in treating patients. Can you give an example of this given your experience working in a hospital? How do you think you'll be able to deal with such frustrations/dilemmas?"
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"I wasn't asked any."
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"I was asked what were the three things in my application that I am most proud of."
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"tell me about a challenging situation in your life? then subsequently asked me about my junior year in college because my grades dropped...he seemed to try to get at me with stupid questions like that"
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"Tufts just got a new Dean and CEO. If you got one of these jobs, what would you do to improve the school or medical center?"
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"What will be your biggest obstacle in medical school? "
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"Assume I have low intelligence. How would you explain pain to me without using the word pain or any synonyms?"
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"If God himself came down and told me that medicine is not for me and that I could not be a doctor, what would I do then. "
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"He asked me to do some quick arithmetic, which really caught me off guard."
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"What is the most important quality for a doctor to have?"
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"Would I consider psychiatry as a specialty? Why or why not?"
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"i notice you're pretty fair skinned...do you think a lot of people of your race have skin cancer?"
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"some heavy duty personal questions. nothing TOO personal, but stuff that was seriously aimed at getting to know me."
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"What are you looking for in a med school?"
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"What do you think the purpose of interviews is?"
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"What would you say about you pisses your friends off the most?"
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"Should university-based research be eliminated?"
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"nothing really... mainly just why tufts, why medicine, tell me about yourself."
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"They didn't really ask questions at all. The student interviewer just glanced at my application before the interview (that's how they do it here) and asked me about my volunteer and work experiences. Then, he asked me if I had any questions. The latter part took up most of the time, so be prepared to ask questions.
The faculty interviewer was really nice and didn't ask any questions. We just ended up talking about diversity and ethnic populations in the cities surrounding Boston (I'm from California, but luckily I stayed with family in Boston for a few days prior to my interview). "
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"Who is my hero?"
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"What are medical schools looking for in a candidate?"
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"If I were a person of very low intellegence, how would you describe pain to me without using the word "pain" or any synonyms?"
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"What do you think of the crisis in the Middle-East (I was a poly-sci major)?
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"My faculty interviewer was very much interested in the enviornment, so we had a good conversation about alternative energy. "
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"(Taps my file with index finger) "Is there anything in here you want to bring to my attention?""
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"What challenges do you think you'll encounter while in medical school?"
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"Do you know any other languages?"
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"describe a situation in which you failed, and how you dealt with it."
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"On studentdoctor.net, a lot of students have called me hard to read, do you find me hard to read?"
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"If a member of your gross anatomy group was not performing well....How would you handle this?
I had said I would approach them and talk to them about it. The said "What if that didn't work?" Because part of your grade is based on how well everyone in the group does, the interviewer wanted me to say that I would approach the instructor and inform them before it had any negative impact on the group. "
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"What do you need to do in order to have compassion?"
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"Nothing all that interesting. Pretty much the standards. Why the school? Why a doctor? "
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"What would your friends say pissed them off about you?"
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"not really anything interesting. just talked frankly about my application and experiences."
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"What is the purpose of life? What is death? How do you feel about euthanasia/abortion/homosexuality? What was the last book you read? What is the difference b/w empathy and sympathy? What is the difference b/w talent and intelligence? What is intelligence? What must always be employed when using logic?"
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"There are failures at your school - are you a failure?"
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"What questions did you expect me to ask you?"
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"What part of the medical school experience do you think you will most likely cause some problems?"
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"How could I vote for Hillary Clinton considering what she did to health care? "
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"why do you think your particular undergraduate institution is so successful?"
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"I was not really asked anything too interesting. Many questions were basic get-to-know you questions. Stuff like hobbies, what is your fav class, and why this school. I don't recall being asked why you want to be a doctor. "
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"How I felt about half of my family being overseas and half of my family being here."
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"About my family"
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"where does imagination come from?"
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"No question. Both interviewers asked me what I had to ask them. When they did ask questions they were not interesting-neither interviewer whas attended medical school and one was actually a professor at the public health school, not for a medical school course."
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What are your suggestions for the admissions office?