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| Response | # Responders |
|---|---|
| Positively | 43 |
| Negatively | 4 |
| No change | 5 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 4.22 | 49 |
| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 7.69 | 52 |
"Admissions counselors don't respond to any emails (reported by many applicants, including myself), but Robin is amazing!"
"Try to be better at communicating with the applicants, many applicants I talked to turned down Western because of the lack in communication."
"For online interviews, if applicants will have to wait for the interview to begin, let them know ahead of time so they can anticipate that."
"The interview day was a little disorganized, but overall it was great!"
"The admissions folks can't tell your email provider to NOT put their email in the spam folder, so it has to be up to the applicants. CHECK YOUR JUNK FOLDER! Tell your email not to block @westernu emails!"
"Follow up on interview emails! I did not get mine until three days before I was supposed to be there..and that was after I called twice about it!"
"Use e-mail to communicate acceptances. If the only form of communication between them and students is e-mail, then why snail mail the acceptance/waitlist/rejection letters? Or use the phone!"
"very disorganized interview process and day."
"Timely email response."
"Post signs to help guide interviewee's to appropriate parking area's/lots."
"Be more responsive to emails during interview weeks. Waiting 2 months for a decision is too long."
"Let us know sooner! (soon after interview, not 2 months!)"
"Tell us about a time you had to do something you’ve never done before"
"Describe a time when you had a problem and how you solved it."
"Why dentistry?"
"Describe a time you had to pursue a new idea and how you did it"
"When was there a time where you had differences while working with a group or individual and how did you overcome it?"
"Describe a situation where not everything turned out as you had planned and how you responded."
"Tell us about a time you had to work with a strong willed individual. (Can't remember the exact wording of it)"
"Tell me about a time you developed close peer relationships you had not previously had"
"Tell us about a time when you had a solve a problem with people who shared different beliefs than you."
"Tell us about a time when you were thrown into a workplace and didn't know anything."
"Tell me about a time where you were thrown into a new workplace."
"Describe a time in which you innovated to solve a problem."
"All the questions I was asked were very very similar (if not identical) to those mentioned on here already. That's really all you need to prepare... come up with some examples of things you have experienced, and be prepared to explain them in detail."
"Describe a time that you innovated to solve a problem. (Be specific!)"
"Describe a time where you had to deal with a difficult person."
"Tell us one thing about yourself"
"Tell me a time when you had to deal with a strong-willed person and how you dealt with it?"
"Describe a time when you worked in a group and managed input from multiple people."
"Same as those listed."
"Describe a situation with a difficult coworker, and how you addressed it"
"Name a time when you had competing priorities."
"Give us an example where you had competing priorities."
"Tell me one thing about yourself."
"Tell us about a time when you were thrown into doing something completely new. "
"Tell me about a time you had to do a new job/task and how you handled it."
"Tell us about a time when you had competing priorities"
"Tell us about a situation in which you innovated to solve the problem."
"Describe a time that you had to work with a strong willed peer. How did you handle it?"
"Describe a problem you solved with an innovative solution"
"Behavioral questions similar to those already listed in other feedback"
"A time you were in a novel situation that was different from anything you had experienced before."
"Describe a time when you solved a problem creatively"
"Typical behavioral questions"
"Tell us about a time you had a conflict with someone and how you solved it."
"Describe a situation when people had to rely on you."
"Can't remember but it was a behavioral question."
"These have been listed by other responders; everyone is asked the same set of standardized questions."
"What was the outcome of the situation you just described about one of your students confronting you in class?"
"sorry"
"Describe a time you were unable to meet a deadline."
"Tell us about a time you attempted something and failed. "
"Tell us about a time when something you were involved in didn't work out."
"as i stated earlier, all the students get the exact same questions, so in the spirit of fairness, i'll just say that they were all typical behavioral based questions."
"What was your most difficult/challenging accomplishment?"
"Describe a time when something didn't go your way and how you reacted"
"When was a time you had to use innovation to solve a problem"
"What was the riskiest decision you've ever made?"
"Tell us about a time when you were thrown into a workplace and didn't know anything."
"Tell us one thing about yourself that you would like us to know, but it can only be one thing."
"Tell us ONE thing about yourself that you would like us to know."
"not verbatim: Tell us something you regret"
"none, really"
"None of them were very interesting."
"Same as those listed."
"Tell us ONE thing about yourself"
"If you could choose one word to describe yourself, what would that be?"
"Mistake made."
"None. I expected all of what I was asked."
"they were all the same"
"Tell me about a time you had competing priorities."
"Tell us about a time when you had to work with unfamiliar people"
""Wait, you are from what city? What High School did you go to? WHAT, get out of my office, interview over." My interviewer went to my rival high school!"
"Describe a good learning experience that you had."
"What was one of your biggest failures and how you were able to overcome it"
"None in particular"
"A challenge from the past that you would deal with differently if it happened now."
"Describe one of your strengths... (not necessarily the most interesting question but I was asked more than 3 questions...)"
"Describe a situation when you had to solve a problem creatively."
"Sorry, I can't rememeber any specific questions."
"I can't remember but I was only asked three questions and they were all behavioral."
"What do you want to do with an advanced degree and a DVM?"
"Purdue really lets you into their first-year veterinary classes??"
"Can't say"
"Describe a problem or challenge and how you worked through it."
"Tell us about a time when you attemped something and failed."
"When was one time when you missed a deadline and how did you handle it?"
"THERE ARE TWO INTERVIEWERS PER STUDENT. n/a all typical behavioral based questions."
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| Response Avg | # Responders |
|---|---|
| 4.00 | 1 |
"Student-centered learning is actually beneficial and helps you retain info, it is DEFINITELY a learning curve but worth it."
"Although we are student-centered learning, I still think more guidance from professors would be helpful in situations like anatomy lab. Some classes lack consistency in quizzes and grading. There is often a lot of conflicting information or miskeyed exams that causes a lot of confusion. It gets worked out in the end but it throws off our learning, and also worrisome if there are miskeyed questions that a student didn’t catch and email about."
LizzyM, SDN Moderator and medical school admissions committee member, is the inventor of the LizzyM Score. The score allows you to see if you are a competitive applicant at a given school. If your LizzyM Score is far below or above the average, you may not be a good fit. If your score is far below, your application may be screened out due to numerical cutoffs. If it is far above, the school may assume they are your “safety” school and that you won’t attend if they offer an acceptance. This score should be used only as a guide to help you select schools and is not a guarantee of acceptance at any school. If you use this as your sole criteria to select medical schools to apply to, you don’t deserve to get in anyway.
SDN Ranking identifies how SDN members perceive the quality of a school relative to other schools of the same type (e.g., other Medical Schools, other Dental schools, etc.). Schools are ranked from 1, perceived as much worse than other schools, to 5, perceived as much better than other schools.
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