<p>anyone get/have their interview yet?</p>
<p>is bu still giving out interviews?
please tell me they aree.
who was the last person to receive an interview?</p>
<p>No clue whether or not they are still giving out interviews. I got my call a while ago..like probably 3 weeks ago, and I know people who had interviewed already, so I am not sure.</p>
<p>Yeah, the woman said they're still contacting. She also said there'd be no rejection notification, lol. That kind of sucks.</p>
<p>ppenguin
are you in the same boat as me? still hopefully waiting to hear from BU?
do you know when they stop calling or is this a rolling thing until they fill up the program?</p>
<p>for those of you who have had your interviews: HOW DID IT GO??</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm still waiting. I just call every Monday to see if they're still contacting.</p>
<p>easonh89,</p>
<p>Where did you voulunteer as the Volunteer EMT? In Ambulance Corps, Fire Dept, .. or what?</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Through the Ambulance Corps. </p>
<p>Any ambulance corps. should have a Youth Corps. for those who want to volunteer and are under the age of 18.</p>
<p>Wow...so how do we know if we're rejected or not then? That's kind of lame not to tell us if we got rejected.</p>
<p>That's what sucks, they don't tell you. They just leave you hanging.</p>
<p>Maybe if you call or email, you can get a more definitive answer...?</p>
<p>I would say its not looking too good, because I was in the same position and I just got a call last week on like tuesday saying I need to come down on the week of feb 25th, and she was saying there are only one or two more open days so I had almost no options to choose from.</p>
<p>I'm waiting until the end of next week. If I don't get a call by then, I'm considering myself rejected.</p>
<p>Anyone know any interview questions, other than the standard why medicine and personality q's? Anything would be helpful, I've heard the interviews are intense.</p>
<p>the interviews at BU, at least mine, were pretty chill. They just asked me about some of the medical experiences I mentioned on my app. Just relax and be ready to have a good conversation and you should probably have some views on the health care issue and be able to defend them.</p>
<p>thanks man</p>
<p>i just had my interview on tuesday, and id give the verbatim advice as johnstoops. at least for your medical interview.</p>
<p>the lunch interview is really nothing. its a student and he doesn't write anything up on you. thats just your opportunity to ask anything you may have been afraid to ask. </p>
<p>and the CAS interview, personally for me, was the hardest because it was with an english professor who didn't ask me anything about my medical experience or interests. </p>
<p>only thing to stress is that you should relax. BUT, the interviews are short. like 30 minutes tops (which in my interview history is the shortest interview i have had). at the end of your 30 minutes, someone else is there. so be prepared because there is a lot to talk about in a relatively short period of time.</p>
<p>how hard is it to get into the boston med program?!?!?</p>
<p>its one of my top colleges on my list and i REALLY want to go there.</p>
<p>I would say that marks/scores play an important role in determining who gets an interview. There will be around 100 people interviewed, and about half will be offered acceptance. Of that, around 20-30 matriculate.</p>
<p>My BU experience was extremely positive. It was my first time in Boston, and at BU, but I left with better impressions of the school than I started with. I have to admit that I was hesitant to go because of the associated travel expenses, but I'm so glad I did. I managed to meet a lot of people (both in and out of the Accelerated Med program). </p>
<p>As for interview advice, I really don't know why people get nervous for interviews. It's not like they're testing you on knowledge you may not know, they're trying to get to know you---and you're the ultimate expert on yourself. It's cliched, but I can't stress it enough: be yourself. Have fun!</p>
<p>I was fortunate to have my CAS interview with a biology professor who interviewed me twenty minutes before my scheduled time. It went on for about forty minutes, and it was probably the most academically-focused of my three interviews. But it was also the most personal. I built a great rapport with my interviewer. My student interview was very informal, lasting around one hour, and I got to meet another interviewee (who I found out was going to be interviewed by the exact same people I was interviewed by). We ate with some other accelerated med students, and everyone seemed very content with the program and eager to share their advice. My med school interview was also very enjoyable, lasting around an hour. We talked about my motivation for going into medicine, bioethical issues, and topics completely unrelated to medicine (e.g. why I applied to BU, my outlook on life). </p>
<p>All in all, it was a great experience.</p>
<p>sounds like your interviews went well. I would agree with much of what you said. I was hesitant in applying because I wasn't sure whether BU was a strong undergraduate and medical school as well. After the interview process in Boston, however, I gained a liking for it and the people there too. In that regard, I would agree with yuying that even if you're the slightest hesitant, just go for it!</p>
<p>I would also agree with your assessment of the interviews. All mine were just like yuying's except one major thing: my CAS interview with a marine biology/evolutionary biology research professor lasted maybe 10 minutes. he looked at my file beforehand and commented that my recs were some of the best he had seen, the program looks for people like me, blah blah..when he asked a question and I started talking, he would interject with comments about it and then we would just joke and laugh and it was just a 10 min. conversation. Quite an odd experience</p>