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"If you could sum yourself and application up in a short pitch what would you say?"
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"Tell me about a time when you disagreed with someone or something. How did you work that out?"
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"Conversational"
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"What kind of singing will you do once you're in medical school?"
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"Explain your research to ... "
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"The research one. I loved it. "
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"Rate your humbleness on a scale of 1-10.
...talk about a catch-22. :)
On the upside, I had a funny answer prepared since this question was asked in previous years."
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"What career would you pursue if there was a pill that cured every illness and there was no need anymore for medicine?"
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"What does diversity mean to you?"
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"How would you explain your research to a 12 year old?"
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"Mostly conversational about Mayo, Rochester, other places I've lived and travel experiences"
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"How did I fit with Mayo's 3-shield tradition (the shields represent education, research, and clincical practice)."
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"I applied to a lot of top schools, so they wanted to know why Mayo instead of some other good school...which was easy to answer once I was there, being there I could see how different it was and it was easy to explain/talk through in the interview."
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"Where do you think you obtained your understanding of the doctor-patient relationship? What pieces have you sung?"
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"if i was surgeon general, how would i fix the healthcare system?"
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"How do you view the day of a typical practicing MD/PhD?"
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"why r u here?"
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"Who is your hero?"
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"What would your dad say is your most impressive quality?"
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"Do you see yourself being a part of reforming medical care?"
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"Was your father wrong or right in his decision not to teach his children to speak Spanish?"
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"What would you do if you had unlimited resources (after discussing my time abroad in 3rd world countries)."
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"Do you think about your own mortality?"
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"Nothing too out of the ordinary, how would I reform health care in developing countries (based of my extracurriculars)"
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"Have you ever been in a situation in which you feel you were not fully recognized or awarded? (Answered yes, which lead to a second question) How do you deal with those situations and continue to work hard?"
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"How do you feel about diversity?"
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"How do you think your sibling would describe you?
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"What do you see as the biggest problem in health care and how would you fix it?"
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"The interview was not as difficult as I expected. "
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"Questions about my profession and experiences I've had there."
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"Tell me about someone you met volunteering at the soup kitchen."
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"Do you miss your old major? (I wasn't a science major.)"
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"Nothing too interesting or hard"
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"Do I feel McDonald's should be held responsible for our overweight society? If I was a car what color would I be?"
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"AM I a perfectionist? Do I expect perfection of others?"
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"There weren't any surprise or unusual questions."
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"What's Mayo Clinic's weakness?"
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"How do you feel about your mortality? "
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"How I felt about national health care."
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"What are some solutions for the healthcare crisis we are currently facing?"
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"If you worked in a group with a colleague who was an irresponsible, bad doctor, what would you do, if anything?"
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"Do yout think about your death?"
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"What do you think about your own mortality?"
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"What is one moment in your life you are most proud of?"
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"Nothing. The questions were mostly specific to my AMCAS application and things I said on the phone interview."
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"Discrepency in my two MCAT scores"
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"I'm going to be your advocate on the admissions committee. What would you like me to say about you?"
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"Describe yourself but only use 2 words."
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"What do you think about when you are alone?"
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"Have you come to terms with your own mortality?"
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"If there was one moment in my life that I could relive (good or bad) what would it be? Why?"
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"How can you prove to me that you can relate to people of different backgrounds from yourself?"
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"What do you do for fun?"
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"Say you are Bill Gates...Come up with a way to fix health care as it currently stands."
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"If you had one word you wanted me to tell the committee to describe yourself, what would it be?"
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"Have you thought about your own mortality?"
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"Do you ever spend time alone? What do you think about when you're alone?"
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"What does it mean to be a professional?"
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"Describe an educational experience in which you turned a negative situation into a positive situation."
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