Ohio University

Know your primary and secondaries well. Low stress environment and super friendly, down to earth admissions staff. They get back to you same day or next day with decisions.

A lot of it was them verifying stuff from my primary application which felt like a waste of time but took some stress off of me because it meant less time for tough questions

I feel like some of their questions could have been answered if they read my primary before the interview.

The personal nature of the interview and the staff. It felt like they genuinely wanted to get to know me and cared. They sent congratulations emails following my acceptance (that evening) and included details from conversations we had earlier that day.

Reviewed my secondary essays

My favorite interview I had so far

nothing

How conversational each interview was

I thought over about my why DO and why HCOM and that gave me enough strength to push through the interview with confidence

Be yourself and be genuine. The interviews want to know you as a person, they care more about your "why" rather than your "what".

Have food that does not take too long to eat for lunch, it is a short break.

The friendly and conversational interviews

Practiced the prompts posted on SDN

The information session, in the beginning, is very informal and helpful. Allows us to meet the admissions team and each other as candidates. Would appreciate more specifics on the actual courses within the new PWH curriculum, but they did their best to give us a broad overview in a limited amount of time. Make sure to have your lunch packed and ready, as you won't get the full 30 minutes for lunch. The Q&A session went longer than expected and this cut into our 30-minute lunch break. This was avoidable, but some fellow interviewees felt the need to ask redundant questions simply for the sake of asking (questions that have been answered already or easily found on the school's website/handouts we were given).

To make sure I don't have Microsoft Teams app installed, as this caused technical issues and dropped 2/3 of my interview sessions, which fortunately I was able to reconnect quickly. Using Microsoft Teams via a browser is much more stable. The school informed us that technical issues would not be held against us, and this remained true.

One of my interviewers was cordial but didn't seem that interested in my entire file. He asked surface-level questions, and after hearing my responses, went on a little bit of a tangent. Still, this interview went well.

The admissions office, students, and faculty are all very friendly and approachable. The students acknowledged the difficult realities of medical school, yet all seemed quite happy and well-supported by the school administration, peers, and their instructors.

Researched the school, interviewers, common questions, Reddit, SDN interview question feedback, emailed current students for advice.

very conversational interview with actual, practicing doctors who also teach there.

Pretty laid back interviews, feel like I messed up my chances because I said I’d go MD if closer to home, but I was being honest... we will see