Positively
5 out of 10
40 minutes
At the school
2
One-on-one
Closed file
"Is UPitt your first choice? You can be honest. It wasn't mine. " Report Response | I was asked this question too
"So are you one of those people who like to see the big picture and help more people with less individual impact or one of the people who like to help fewer people but have unmatched impact on their lives?" Report Response | I was asked this question too
"What are your strengths? What are your weaknesses? How would your friends describe you?" Report Response | I was asked this question too
"How does what you learned from studying public health in Mexico apply to our healthcare system in the United States?" Report Response | I was asked this question too
"Do you think that the character Denzel Washington played in "John Q" was right in what he did? Why or why not?" Report Response | I was asked this question too
"I prepared a lot less for this interview than for others. I just reread the catalogs and look at my own applications the night before. Pulled out my "standard list of questions" for all schools and added some additional "Pitt only questions" for interviewers." Report Response
"How happy and interested the students were and how new the medical facilities were--the anatomy lab is so nice =). I also liked how the curriculum is structured." Report Response
"Pittsburgh wasn't as beautiful as the Admissions Office had made it out to be in the catalogs. The price of tuition is also really steep and the Office of Financial Aid doesn't bargain." Report Response
"My faculty interviewer was a new faculty member to Pitt. He had actually been there for four months, so he couldn't answer most of my questions. It would have been nice to have a couple more general, broader questions about the medical school experience available to show my interest." Report Response
"Mostly positive, I do wish I had asked for a second faculty interview just to get someone who was a little more experienced and who could compare me with other applicants, but no big complaints." Report Response
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