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"What other schools have you applied to, followed by, what do other schools have that Vanderbilt doesn't?"
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"(When talking about my research) What color does it fluoresce? (She wasn't testing me, she was curious)"
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"The interview began by asking me to ask questions and we went from there."
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"none"
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"None, he was pretty quiet and got interrupted during our interview by his beeper."
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"Tell me about yourself--let's start from the beginning. (Didn't read any of my essays because she wanted an unbiased interview.)"
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"Describe a situation (medical) that did not go well."
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"None of the questions were especially interesting. It was more of a conversation about why I was applying, what I was looking for, and how I got interested in medicine."
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"I was asked: Do you have any burning question for me? about 3-4x so I wonder what else to say. Please arm yourself with info about what your interviewer does. and you can ask them about their work. "
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"I shadowed a Dr. in England so my interviewer asked, ''What are the differences in medicine between the US and UK?''"
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"Nothing too "interesting""
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"Why engineering?"
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"pretty standard really. really conversational. "
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"Nothing interesting per se. They have your information there and ask questions from it. He asked about some courses I had taken."
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"About something in my application."
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"So I see you're on the Academic Dishonesty Committee . . . What's been the most challenging case you've seen?"
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"Tell me about anthropology (my minor)."
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"The interview was really open-ended. He just asked me to talk about myself. "
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"Do you think all McDonald's should close down?"
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"What does the term 'doctor' mean to you"
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"None that I can remember, really."
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"Why should we accept you?"
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"tell me about yourself"
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"How did you come to be Korean? "
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"A question related to a unique part of my application."
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"I see you have a background in medical imaging, could you see yourself exploring this opportunity in our emphasis program?"
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"Have you given any thought to what it's like to be a woman in medicine?"
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"tell me about XYZ class... "
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"How did you like your summer at Duke?"
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"All pretty generic questions, although there were a couple interesting questions relating specifically to why I took a class or expanding on a hobby."
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"Given your interests in ____ and ____, how have they influenced your decision to become a physician?"
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"It was a friendly chat, everything was interesting but also very laid back."
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"If you have a choice between two med schools, what are your criteria for choosing between them."
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"What can I say to make you want to come here?"
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"I was asked about my foreign educational background. The interview was very positive and I found this to be very encouraging because a lot of people have negative attitudes towards degrees from outside the USA, though from my experience, there is a lot of spoon-feeding in the USA educational system."
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"What do you think the sol'n to America's obesity problems is? (follow up to something in a previous question)"
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"If you could have dinner with 2 people, living, dead or fictional, who would you choose?"
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"My favorite undergraduate course"
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"None really"
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"Tell me about your research...i mean let's spend like 20 mins talking about it in depth."
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"Tell me about your high school - it was interesting because I just didn't expect to go back that far."
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"The interview was very conversational, not a lot of direct questions. Nothing really stuck out"
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"What do you think the greatest challenge facing medicine will be over the next 30 years? "
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"The traditional questions were asked, "Why do you want to become a doctor" and "what do you do to relax""
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"What do you think the major health issues are for women in the Middle East?"
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"So what do you think about universal healthcare? (This was really just asked in a joking manner in response to something I had said, nothing serious)"
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"If I asked your mom about your three best attributes, what would she say?"
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"who's your favorite artist"
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"Was there one thing that led you to medicine."
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"Can you help me set up a program like this here next year?"
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"The interview was more of a discussion. We talked about my research and background."
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"What kind cancer did your mother die from (They get specific on your AMCAS personal statement file!)"
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"What sort of Emphasis Program would you do if you attended Vanderbilt?"
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"My interviewer asked me to summarize a few interesting courses I took in college."
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"Why did you choose your undergraduate institution?"
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"My interviewer didn't really ask many questions - it was more of just a conversation."
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"Why did you fly in on American Airlines and not Southwest?"
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"tell me about your dogs"
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"Nothing unusual."
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"Nothing really thought-provoking."
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"Nothing to interesting."
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"Everything was totally standard."
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"If medicine did not exist, what profession would you be in?"
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"How my undergrad major (not a typical pre-med major) prepared me for medicine."
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"What was your favorite nonscience class?"
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"Describe neuromarketing (for me_"
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"Are you familiar with Chinese philosophy?"
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"All of your community service is admirable, but I don't understand how that connects with your desire to study and practice medicine. Do you?"
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"although we talked about interesting things, they all came about through the conversation. No really interesting questions were posed."
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"Why Vanderbilt?"
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"Name the other top 10 schools you are applying to?"
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"the interviewer asked very open-ended questions. it seemed like she was simply trying to get to know me."
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"What do you look for in a medical school program?"
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"What gets your blood boiling? What makes you really really mad"
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"What has been your biggest accomplishment in college?
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"None. I was really disappointed by all the boring questions. She wouldn't even bite when I mentioned things that other people usually find interesting."
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"(for me): why did you join the military?"
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"He asked me to talk about my clinical experiences, my research, my major, my family... really just trying to get to know me."
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"A question about my research in management - business fraud."
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"Nothing really interesting"
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"Why did you decide to study in the US?"
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"Nothing particularly interesting"
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"Nothing very interesting"
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"If you had a day off to spend time with your family and a patient called, what would you do?"
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"My interviewer asked me many questions regarding my volunteer work, some of which had little to do with clinical/research work (strictly speaking), which seemed unusual but were very much welcomed."
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"N/A"
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"what frustrates you?"
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"Aww, it just escaped my mind."
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"So what do you think about the situation in Ukraine?"
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"Describe your usual role when working on a team."
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"we talked about the importance of literature / the humanities in medicine, but I can't remember a specific question"
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"Nothing too interesting... Just basic questions you would expect."
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"What's the best thing that's ever happened to you? The worst?"
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"You have had many extraordinary experiences, which one was your greatest? Which one was your least favorable?"
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"We had a discussion about how my research related to his work."
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"Nothing interesting..."
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"The interviewer had my AMCAS file memorized. He knew that I took a piano class my freshman year. When he asked me about it, I was kind of shocked."
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"I was really only asked two questions: What makes a good doctor? And what makes you better than all the other applicants? She seemed to disagree with my answer to the first question. I didn't particularly like the second question, since I don't know anything about the other applicants. I just tried to say what made me different, which didn't work. At all."
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"What percentage of the GDP is consumed by healthcare in America? Don't worry guys, I probably led to this question by discussing the health systems in other countries and how much of the GDP it was consuming."
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"Nothing too intersting, just asked how I got interested in medicine."
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"Out of your community service experiences with people, describe a positive and negative experience. "
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"why a year off"
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"Nothing too out of the ordinary really. "
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"the whole thing was basically a conversation so it wasn't stressful really at all.. the questions just flowed and followed naturally."
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"Why did you travel after college?"
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"What makes a good doctor?"
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"Tell me something interesting about what you learned as a political science minor."
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"Nothing super interesting. He had me discussing my AMCAS application (which is all they have to look at), and I know mine like the back of my hand."
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"Did you find your thesis project or did it find you?"
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"What one aspect of your time at 'insert hospital here' most surprised you?"
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"How a class from my major could apply to medicine (not a typical cell bio, biochem, etc. class)."
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"Have you ever been accused of something that you didn't do?"
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"What role does religion play in a physician's life?"
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"How exactly does a basic swing dance step go? (I told him I teach swing dance lessons)"
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"Tell me about yourself growing up."
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"What do you do in your free time?"
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"Describe your best friend."
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"Tell me about what brought you here, why medicine, why vanderbilt etc.? (all given as one big question)"
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"Nothing really super sweet"
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"How have your parents' professions influenced you to become a doctor?"
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"All of the questions were about things on my application"
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"Nothing that really threw me - all pretty standard and expected."
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"Who has been an important mentor for you?"
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"There wasn't anything out of the ordinary."
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"Who is more musically talented, you or your sister?"
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"Why pole-vaulting?!"
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"Do you watch Sex in the City?"
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"how do you show compassion?"
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"Nothing was that interesting."
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"A question that was really more in the form of a discussion of the role of alternative medicine in the US healthcare system."
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"what is the best thing that has ever happened to you?"
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"Tell me about a time when you felt that you let yourself and other people down."
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"Tell me what other schools that you've been looking at and if you have any questions of how they compare to Vanderbilt."
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"Hmm . . . nothing too crazy. I guess I liked the question, "If you had an absolutely free weekend, no strings attached and no cost applied, where would you go and what would you do?""
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"What would you do if you were partnered with another student who vehemently opposes your interest in serving underrepresented communities?"
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"None really---all were related to my AMCAS"
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"Not really anything interesting. Lots of personal stuff like my undergrad school, my family, aspects of health care that I've encountered, my research and clinical experience."
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"What makes a musician great? Can you tell the difference? (Don't worry - I wrote in my AMCAS that I play a ton of violin!)"
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"What books have you read recently? (Interesting b/c it lead on to other related questions)"
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"If you could spend two hours in any museum, which museum would you go to?"
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"If you were writing your bio at age 70, what would it say?"
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"How would your roommates describe you?"
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"nothing really. all were very fair and off AMCAS"
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"Nothing really. Very conversational. Extremely nice interviewer. I was nervous before the interview because there was a large portrait of the Dr who interviewed me hanging in the First Year lecture hall but he was great."
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"How did you get a C in General Chem and then an A in Organic?"
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"What type of medicine do you want to go into and why?"
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"How do you manage to do all of this stuff?"
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"What has been the most fascinating place you have seen in your travel experiences?"
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"Nothing especially sticks out."
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"How did you get involved in whitewater kayaking?"
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"none particular"
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"Very conversational interview, so there were a lot of interesting topics, but they weren't really ASKED, just arrived at them naturally."
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"What do you do in your spare time? The questions were pretty standard."
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"No unexpected questions - very conversational. You were basically given a chance to explain yourself. The interviewer tried to make you as comfortable and possible and just got to know you."
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"Nothing really"
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"Tell me about your Bioethics class"
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"None really, just a no stress interview. The basic getting to know you better."
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"What did you learn as a team player?"
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"How is it living in Las Vegas?"
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"No really interesting/difficult questions. The interviewer was incredibly nice, and she basically let me discuss whatever experiences (research, volunteer, etc) that I wanted to."
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"Tell me about the impact of immigration on human capital. (a project i'd done some research on) "
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"What is the worst situation you been in?"
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"Questions about my research and research group."
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"The interviewer described a difficult case study of a patient with a potentially terminal illness that only responded to an exotic therapy that the insurance company refused to pay for because of its' contract. What would I do? This lead to a discussion of the pitfalls of the current medical economy set-up"
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"How would your friends describe you?"
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"What were the best and worst experiences of your life?"
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"What was the most meaningless extracurricular on your AMCAS?"
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"interesting convo overall - we talked about politics, healthcare, rural medicine (while I have experience dealing with rural patients, its not what I want to do)"
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"None, didn't really seem to ask the "usual" questions"
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"What extracurricular activity did you enjoy the least, and why?"
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"Tell me about your interest in art. "
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"None."
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"Who is your favorite jazz musician?"
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"none... all were specific to my file"
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"What's the difference between country music and bluegrass?"
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"please make a simple flowchart of the complex variants involved in healthcare mobilization based upon the Olerick model of statistical exchange.
kidding. chill, its realy easy."
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"If you had all the resources in the world to do whatever you want for a weekend, what would you do?"
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"Mainly discussed research and some current healthcare issues (i.e. malpractice insurance)"
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"What was your favorite and least favorite classes?"
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"all specific to me - very chatty "
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"After a long discussion of various problems in the health care system, what would I do to fix them?"
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"What are the advantages and disadvantages of socialized health care? (As a Canadian, I expected this question)"
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"1) Who is your role model?
2) How do you get a 10-year-old child to practice a musical instrument? "
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"Why did you choose the high school that you attended?"
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"How would you compare what and how much students read for pleasure compared to 10 years ago?"
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"Nothing terribly exciting; mostly standard "why did you transfer?" "what was your most favorite and least favorite class?" "how did you like Stanford?""
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"Nothing was particularly interesting."
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"What does poetry do for you"
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What are your suggestions for the admissions office?