Wayne State University

Nobody from the school (other than the interviewers) really spoke to us about the program, and there wasn't really an intro/welcome to the interview day

The interviewers were very kind, knew a lot about my application, and wanted to get to know me better

SDN, reading over my application, researching the school and its values

Seems like a very community oriented school and the students are very positive and the faculty seems like it really cares.

They interview a lot of people so not sure how secure to feel despite feeling positively.

All interviewers seemed very proud of Wayne State and had great insight into what it would be like to go there.

School website and reviewing my application materials.

Overall I'm sure it's a good school, but I just had a very negative interview experience from the people I had interacted with.

The interview I had with Wayne was the one I had disliked the most out of all the interviews I had. Received the A and turned it down from how negative my interview experience was. The MMI questions were very random and didn't have much to do with medical school, yet the interviewers were not very personable and one raised an eyebrow when I had mentioned I was not from the state and made me feel very unwelcome. My faculty interviewer was the most bizarre interview I've had all cycle, with the faculty asking me to explain how the covid vaccine works, what the difference between equity and equality is, definition of a food dessert, what medical journals I read regularly, and barely asking me anything related to my app and moreso pimping me on definitions. Fortunately I had knew the answers, but it did not "sell" the school to me at all. My student interviewer was nice but a bit robotic. Definitely felt off vibes from everyone I interacted with besides the interview facilitator.

The interview facilitator was very down to earth and friendly.

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While they don't ask conventional questions, reviewing them and what you would say, and also going over your experiences, even ones not on your application will help you prepare for unexpected questions.

That they don't ask conventional questions now (tell me about yourself, why medicine, why Wayne state, etc) in the 2022-2023 cycle.

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The student interview made me feel at ease and the faculty interview I felt positively challenged. Also they had detailed slides of med school curriculum for each year

SDN and general interview review. Outlined my responses on a google document.

F interviewers were super enthusiastic and warm! Interviewers really seemed to just want to get to know me more on a personal level rather than review my application materials!

Very friendly faculty interviewer, everyone knew my file really well and asked me questions about it, transparent about quality of my application

SDN interview feedback

I would have liked to know more about the school. I have no idea if I would be a good fit for them. Too much time was devoted to the city of Detroit. That's nice but I'm from OOS and I'm going to medical school not moving to Detroit for a career. They interview a lot and have a huge class size 300 students. It's pass/fail and volunteering is required and so is early clinical exposure but very little specifics were given about the program. I really wasn't sure why they asked me to come.