<p><em>gladly postpones call until friday</em></p>
<p>Any of you guys applying from overseas?</p>
<p>jenskate - Could you tell me more about the rice/baylor interview, and how important it is for the overall selection process?</p>
<p>Is there another post about this?</p>
<p>Here is a repost from two other threads in the combined programs forum:</p>
<p>As for the interview...</p>
<p>It was actually surprisingly fun.</p>
<p>Here are my top tips for it:</p>
<p>Wear a suit! (guys AND girls) I didn't want to, fearing that I'd look stuffy and over dressed. My mom kind of forced me to, and boy was I glad when I saw that EVERY candiate was wearing one!</p>
<p>Wear comfortable shoes. Mine hurt so bad I could barely walk, no lie. I would hobble to the room where my interviewer was waiting, and then be like, ok stand up straight, smile, shake hands, and sit as fast as possible! it was rough.</p>
<p>Read the rubric if it's given to you and play the game! At Rice/Baylor interviews (which are the only ones i've been to) they gave out a folder of info. In this folder, there was the rubric that the interviewer was supposed to use to "grade" us. We were to give our copy to our interviewer when we went to meet them. So, I read the rubric and made sure to specifically mention things that I knew fit into the rubric.</p>
<p>Prepare a couple of questions if possible. And don't be afraid to make the interview a dialogue rather than just a scary doctor asking you weird questions.</p>
<p>get e-mail addresses of your interviewers, and jot them a quick note thanking them afterwards.</p>
<p>The rice/baylor interviews work like this, in case you are interested:
you have to meet at rice during admitted students weekend, very early one morning, like 6:00 am or something. Theydrive you across the street to BCM, where you meet the person running the interview, they feed you also, but most people can't really eat too much. I had a glass of water. lol. Anyway, you have 2 interviews, both one on one, with a doctor and a student, or with 2 doctors. (I had a doc and a student).
These last like 45 minutes each, i think. They didn't ask the weird questions I was fearing, things like "if you were a vegetable, which vegetable would you be?" I got tripped up on a question - who has influenced you the most? I said that it was a difficult question, and I wasn't sure if I could name one person. So I didn't. I named my parents, my 7th grade science teacher, and this boy who was president of my junior class before he died from a chronic disease. I don't think they cared that I didn't have a prepared answer to everything, in fact, i think they liked it. Anyway, after the interviews, you could elect to walk or get driven back to rice. I got driven, the shoes were too much. They told us if we had made it or not, by e-mail, and then a written letter, less than a week later, i think.</p>
<p>I hope this helped! Maybe I'll see you guys here next year! Good luck!</p>
<p>owch, i've just been rejected by email. No interview. Hurts!</p>
<p>Let's focus on the good, tho -- </p>
<ol>
<li>Northwestern HPME it is then , no sweating over the choice.</li>
<li>Would have been expensive to fly to the US again.</li>
<li>Interview would have fallen too close to my finals / grad trip ;).</li>
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<p>yea, still owch. but better : )</p>
<p>Thanks for your help jenskate! I really want to get into rice/baylor, and I'm glad that you told me the interview was fun. </p>
<p>And Mea, don't worry about the rice/baylor thing. Northwestern HPME is awesome too, and everything will work out!</p>
<p>Mea - I am also sorry to hear about that, but HPME is a great program of course.</p>
<p>For those of you nervously awaiting your interviews, I want to tell you about the Rice/Baylor dinner I went to tonight. My student interviewer was there, and she came up behind me, put her arm around my shoulders and asked if I remembered her, which of course I did. She was basically just telling me how all of the kids in her class (she was Rice/Baylor and is now finishing her last year at Baylor) are doing so well, and matching at such great places and are so nice, etc. And she was so nice to me, giving me her e-mail and telling me if I ever need anything to contact her and basically she's just an all around great woman. She's going to Johns Hopkins to do her internal med residency next year. I remember meeting her at the interviews, and she wasn't supposed to be my interviewer - there was a mix-up - and she handled it so gracefully, and I just wondered, what was I doing at these interviews? How could I ever become so poised and articulate and beautiful as the medical student in front of me? Even meeting her tonight, I felt that a little, but I have more confidence now in who I am becoming, i think.</p>
<p>Anyway, the point was, basically, that the interviewers are good people. They really care. And the truth is, if you ar meant to be in the program, you will be in it. And if it is not where you are meant to be, there is definitely another place for you.</p>
<p>(thanks guys!)</p>