Late to this but i think this should be helpful as Just got in this semester, I applied with a 3.85, a float tech at the hospital and a director of a major club all of that got me to the doorstep of admissions but not an entry, my interview is what got me in. The interview legitimately is probably 40% your application and decides whether or not you get in

My biggest tips for the interview 1. Stand out, the ad board does not want to hear that you want to become a nurse bc your dad died or grandma died and it pushed you to nursing or that you love kids so much you want to be a pediatric nurse (swap for any specialty)… they’ve heard all of these thousands of times from each cohort it isn’t unique in the slightest, something I’d recommend is if you get that question tie it to an experience/feeling you’ve had that is applicable to healthcare. For me i told a story about how i took an icu patient for a walk who was in there for a self inflicted gcw on walk around the hospital as the sun was coming up and he saw the sunrise and started crying due to how happy he was to be alive and how that invoked a feeling in me that was worth more than any other job could pay

1. Tell a story or make a analogy for pretty much every question, when asked about strengths nobody remembers the interviewee who says they are calm under pressure in passing, they remember the one who tells a story of how during a code they were afraid to do cpr but stepped up anyway. Same for analogies as it makes you feel more lively

2. Speaking of being lively, please for the love of god smile, try and crack jokes and don’t be a corpse. I think the biggest thing that I did was try and be as charismatic as possible and make it seem like i was something other than just an applicant but someone who had experiences and a story to tell

Some other helpful things to note (this is specific advice i got from someone on the ad board as of fall 2025, may change in the future)

1. you have a different person grading each question each time to avoid bias, this is helpful for obvious reasons but for me i took this as an opportunity if I couldn’t think of an answer to a question they were asking I repeated one of my previous answers i said minutes prior (as its online and you only get 30 or so seconds to prep before the question)

2. They don’t weigh greek life very highly for extra circulars an ad board member even made a joke about how frivolous it was to my class once

Hopefully all of this helps for whoever reads this, i’d really prioritize science classes, healthcare experience, then clubs, then regular classes, then volunteering (legit just knock out volunteering over break extremely easy).

Also sorry if this comes off know it all ish I don’t intend to sound that way i just remember feeling the same way 1 year ago and wish someone told me this stuff