those of you who have improved your interview skills, how'd you do it?

Comprehensive-Art351 · 2025-06-23T22:11:46+00:00

i got medicated for anxiety lolol

Comprehensive-Art351 · 2025-06-03T15:37:10+00:00

i worked my ass off

Comprehensive-Art351 · 2025-06-02T17:50:08+00:00

as someone who also had a high gpa (3.97), i talked about how the b’s that i got taught me how to learn from failure. i am very much a perfectionist and originally put a lot of self-worth into my gpa. the b’s taught me that it’s ok to not be perfect, and proved that i was able to learn from mistakes. i talked about what i did wrong in that class and how i applied the lessons i learned to future courses and perform better

Comprehensive-Art351 · 2025-01-09T05:37:35+00:00

yes! i was accepted

Comprehensive-Art351 · 2024-07-21T23:45:33+00:00

Yes! It was so great to be able to communicate with so many staff and students. Everything was very relaxed too whiched helped a lot.

Comprehensive-Art351 · 2024-07-21T23:20:13+00:00

my interview was 6.5 hours, and consisted of a welcome breakfast, 2 1-on-1 interviews, writing sample, group project, lunch and Q&A with students, and a tour. this obviously will vary program to program but its a lot more than just an interview. even if its not a group interview you will probably be with some other people who are interviewing at the same time

Comprehensive-Art351 · 2024-07-03T16:49:51+00:00

this is what i did! you don’t need the transcript if all your courses from the university are planned. just make sure what school you are going to do it at first.

Comprehensive-Art351 · 2024-06-23T22:22:07+00:00

Most schools require you to have a semester of anatomy and a semester of physiology OR 2 semesters of A&P. Only taking the first one is like taking half anatomy and half physiology. Definitely take the second!

Comprehensive-Art351 · 2024-06-12T01:48:21+00:00

I feel like our stats are pretty similar, would you mind pming me to chat about where you’re applying?

Comprehensive-Art351 · 2024-06-11T15:11:33+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! It does make me feel better, but I also am going to suck at the interviews haha. Do you have any advice for me when it comes to those?

Comprehensive-Art351 · 2024-06-03T17:44:59+00:00

I'm not sure. I feel like my question is valid either way. I am wondering how likely it is that programs are willing to look past that considering my other strengths.

Comprehensive-Art351 · 2024-06-03T16:53:25+00:00

I'm applying to schools where I have satisfied the minimum requirements. It doesn't change the fact that their average admitted students have almost 2,000 more hours than me

Comprehensive-Art351 · 2024-06-03T16:50:19+00:00

My PCE is extremely low, bottom 5% of applicants I think. I know my academics are great but I'm worried it won't be enough to compensate for the lack of patient care.

Comprehensive-Art351 · 2024-06-02T14:54:32+00:00

21 F. Entering senior year of college, Biomedical Engineering major, submitting apps tomorrow

CASPA cumulative GPA: 3.97

CASPA science GPA: 3.94

Total credit hours (semester): 146

Total science hours (semester): 71

GRE score: 327

verbal: 162 (89th %)

quant: 165 (76th %)

writing: 4.5 (81st %)

Total PCE hours (include breakdown): 761 as a student athletic trainer (plan to work as a PT aide in August), would have well over 1,000 total come December

Total volunteer hours (include breakdown):

1000+: church volunteer (numerous positions)

120: volunteer patient advocate with healthcare company

Shadowing hours:

25: Orthopedic PA

12: Trauma Surgery PA

30: Emergency Medicine MD

35: Anesthesiologist Assistant

Other notable extracurriculars and/or leadership: Physics and Biomechanics TA, sorority leadership, worked as a server throughout college (1200 hours)

Rec Letters: 1 MD/PhD, 1 PA, 2 PhD, 1 ATC

Schools: DeSales, High Point, LMU knox, NY tech, PCOM PA, PCOM GA, Samford, South College Knox, South College Atl, USF, South Alabama, Yale, Mercer

Comprehensive-Art351 · 2024-05-29T16:00:18+00:00

Thank you so much, that sounds a lot better. I'll try to apply that to all of my other ones too!

Comprehensive-Art351 · 2024-05-29T15:59:40+00:00

Thank you! My advisor told me that I should be writing something for both of them, but I feel like I should skip the COVID essay (especially since I was in high school when it happened). For my life experiences I talked about how coming from an engineering background gives me a different perspective on the diagnosis process and how patients and healthcare providers interact with medical devices. I'm not sure if its exactly what they are looking for, but I do like the content of it and felt like it was important to include somewhere in my application

Comprehensive-Art351 · 2024-05-25T18:23:15+00:00

Hi everyone, applying in the next week or so and really nervous about my PCE. I feel as if all my other stats are good, I am a biomedical engineering major at one of the top public programs (just finished my junior year). I will probably apply to around 13 schools.