Post by Anonymous on Oct 17, 2003 22:02:49 GMT -5
I have had some interviews, one in particular was a horrible experience. I was apalled that the person that interviewed was on the admissions committee. The fact that the school has someone like that on the committee makes me not want to go there, even if its the only school that admits me, I would still not go there.
The school was MCV. The tour guides were great-very friendly and welcoming. But my interviewer was a different story. Pretty much any kind of question was asked. Let's just say this: my interviewer, who is a practicing DOCTOR, seemed to have a bias against certain people.
I plan to write a letter to the school about this experience and am considering writing a letter to my state senator about it. The interview was just between me and him, nobody else was in the room at the time and the door was closed, so it will be hard to prove what was said by him. But still, something needs to be done about this. This interview process is far, far from perfect.
Some things I've learned from my interviews so far:
-interviewers do have biases; I thought going into this process, that doctors would have the maturity and insight to not pre-judge people but I've realized that this is not always the case.
-one reason why this med school process is a crapshoot is that it depends on who you interview with. Some interviewers you will click with, others you won't and in those cases, you can't really do anything about it.
I don't play a musical instrument or anything and sometimes your interviewer is looking for an applicant that plays an instrument.
-sometimes, interviewers will ask you random things about your application, totally unrelated to medicine or why you want to go into medicine. At every interview, I have always been asked what I do for fun.