Med School Interview Tips — FROM THE DAWN OF TIME!
So, I was cleaning out some old emails from one of my old email accounts (oh, Hotmail, remember when you were so cool?), and I came across a list of med school interview tips which I wrote over 10 years ago, for a buddy who was in charge of my alma mater’s Pre Med Club. Thought you guys might like to see what kind of advice Dr. Cranquis was giving to pre med students, back before he was DOCTOR Cranquis. Enjoy!
1. Dress professional and act professional, but don’t hide your personality. Medical schools don’t want to turn out robot doctors. They want people who will help keep their fellow classmates alive and unstressed. So smile, relax, be friendly!
2. This may sound risky, but don’t act as though this interview is the only thing on earth that matters to you. The interviewers know that you probably will apply to other schools. Emphasize how you plan to do a good job WHEREVER you get accepted. The key point to get across is that you know you WILL get accepted somewhere, and you hope that it will be THEIR school that accepts you.
I love this! I ate dinner at one of my professor’s houses last night and we were talking about med/grad school apps, specifically the interviewing process. He told me countless stories of students who were B students in undergrad, but who killed their interviews because they were calm, collected, and had practiced answering the tough questions in front of people before. One story i thought was amazing was a 3.2 GPA student getting accepted to YALE of all places…..
