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  • University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
  • Allopathic Medical School
  • Aurora, CO
Overall Experience

How did the interview impress you?

Negatively

What was the stress level of the interview?

8 out of 10

Questions

How long was the interview?

60+ minutes

Where did the interview take place?

At the school

How many people interviewed you?

3

What was the style of the interview?

One-on-one

What type of interview was it?

Closed file

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

"Do you think that people who believe people with AIDS are being punished by God are fanatics and are crazy?" Report Response | I was asked this question too

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

"What do you think about people who go to church several times a week and pray in public?" Report Response | I was asked this question too

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

"What do you thing about the number of minorities being allowed into medicine currently? (give me a break!)" Report Response | I was asked this question too

What was the most interesting question?

""Do you think AIDS was put here to punish gays?"" Report Response | I was asked this question too

What was the most difficult question?

"Please give 3 areas in which you believe there are problems that need to be addressed in medicine, and give your suggestions for changing the status quo." Report Response | I was asked this question too

How did you prepare for the interview?

"Mock interviews, review personal statement, read current mainstream medical news (Time, Newsweek, etc.)" Report Response

What impressed you positively?

"The school facilities itself." Report Response

What impressed you negatively?

"Hard to decide between the unbelievable arrogance of the medical students already there and the white collar, good-old-boy, stuffed shirt attitude of the faculty." Report Response

What did you wish you had known ahead of time?

"There is a group exercise in which you must work together as a team and problem solve. One person must be a leader, and the remainder must work well with that person and each other. It is a timed exercise and they highly frown upon the group not solving the problem (which consists of composing various lists for medical practices, etc.) in the alotted amount of time." Report Response

What are your general comments?

"I had a good cop/bad cop interview, which I thought had gone out with the dark ages. One interviewer, a very short, egotistical man, spent 30 minutes trying to piss me off with questions about AIDS, religion, and homosexuality (don't ask me why, I'm not gay nor appear to be). The next interviewer patronized me and spent the better part of the interview asking me philosophical questions that had little to do with anything. Overall, the interview experience, though I felt I did very well, was the worst of my medical school application process. I was accepted at several other schools, and not at CU, and had the worst experience of my life there. By the time I left I wanted nothing to do with the place." Report Response

Tour and Travel

Who was the tour given by?

Admissions staff

General Info

On what date did the interview take place?

10/15/1999

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