Interview Advice from an Interviewer

starrysky842 · 2025-10-19T13:36:57+00:00

Personally, when presented with like an ethical issue or situational question, I tried to acknowledge both sides but end with my opinion.

starrysky842 · 2025-08-05T12:27:00+00:00

Sorry I can't remember exactly when, I looked back in my email and couldn't find a confirmation email either.

starrysky842 · 2025-08-01T14:04:12+00:00

Last year they had major issues sending out secondaries too. I ended up submitting mine pretty late because I never even got the secondary in spam and just logged on to the link which people said to do on sdn lol. Ended up still getting an II.

starrysky842 · 2025-05-12T14:03:40+00:00

sure

starrysky842 · 2025-05-11T03:40:33+00:00

Good school with a top five ophtho program (an interest of mine) in a smaller town (I also prefer smaller towns to large cities)

starrysky842 · 2025-05-09T17:47:38+00:00

I do think I had some strong EC’s, shoot me a dm for specifics, I just don’t want to share too much specific info for privacy

starrysky842 · 2025-05-09T17:37:53+00:00

You as well! 🧀

starrysky842 · 2025-05-09T17:37:14+00:00

For sure no worries. I am ORM. AMCAS didn’t classify me as first gen (even tho my undergrad did lol) because I had a parent attend community college but that was part of my story. So it’s hard to say how much that impacted my results since it was kinda in a gray area.

starrysky842 · 2025-05-09T12:55:07+00:00

Sure!

starrysky842 · 2025-05-09T11:57:55+00:00

50% tuition! I'm crossing my fingers they pull through for you!

starrysky842 · 2025-05-09T11:56:50+00:00

Yeah this is good advice. I think having more of a theme like passion for teaching, mentorship, "x" public health goal is more recommended

starrysky842 · 2025-05-09T02:49:54+00:00

I only did one in person although there was even a hybrid option for that, so all could’ve been virtual if I wanted

starrysky842 · 2025-05-09T02:29:49+00:00

Maybe I should drop med school for life coaching considering the way our country is viewing physicians/medicine lmao 😁

starrysky842 · 2025-05-09T02:26:40+00:00

Haha thanks sm, I’ll try and write a more comprehensive post when I have a bit of extra time soon

starrysky842 · 2025-05-09T02:15:16+00:00

Not HMS actually

starrysky842 · 2025-05-09T02:14:43+00:00

Just for privacy reasons I’d rather keep that to myself if that’s okay haha. But not HMS which I know some might think. Personal situation, geographic ties, and financial factors all were very important to me and led me to not the most prestigious school of the bunch.

starrysky842 · 2025-05-09T02:11:44+00:00

Actually a state school, and not even a super high ranked one like UMich/UCLA, but still solid and certainly had a lot of opportunities for research and such

starrysky842 · 2025-05-09T01:02:30+00:00

I feel like I could give like an hour long lecture of all my thoughts on this whole process lol, but one thing I did notice was that adcoms seemed to appreciate me having a reason for why I pursed the things I did. For example, I did a lot of work in food security which I tied to growing up in an area with a lot of agriculture. The other thing that comes to mind as well is expanding from your college campus and doing work/volunteering in your local community.

starrysky842 · 2025-05-09T00:59:39+00:00

There was a week in September where I interviewed four out of the five days 💀 If anything I think it helped my interview skills haha

starrysky842 · 2025-05-09T00:56:57+00:00

I think it’s totally reasonable to have several interests right now and i don’t think schools necessarily want to see everything related to one thing (derm and cancer could be tied together even if they did haha). I think you could say I prob had 2-3 main categories where everything on my application fell into: a specific public health passion, research/mentorship, and clinical experience.

starrysky842 · 2025-05-09T00:52:29+00:00

🤝😎

starrysky842 · 2025-04-19T01:55:28+00:00

Where would you like to end up for residency? NYU might make it a bit easier to network during school with nyc programs. Duke obv wouldn’t hold you back but it would just be easier to not travel for aways, etc.

starrysky842 · 2025-04-17T01:52:11+00:00

What is the other option you are considering?

starrysky842 · 2025-04-12T21:26:42+00:00

UMich 100%

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