Comments on: A Little Update

By: Joshua

Joshua — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:28:40 +0000

Hey Khalil,

Yah, it goes to show you that you just never know.

To be honest, I don’t think chatting with someone who has been through the interview process is going to give you some significant advantage over someone else. The questions change from year to year, and as is the case for schools like the University of Toronto, you can’t predict what the questions will be because the interviewers are allowed to ask you whatever they want.

What’s going to help you the most is coming up with a plan of preparation for the interviews, taking that plan seriously, and following through with it.

By: Khalil

Khalil — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:35:08 +0000

Ah the interview you thought you did well (queens one), you ended up being waitlisted and the interview you thought did not go well ended up being the one offering you an acceptance. Haha that has happened to me quite a few times too.

But don’t you think you kind of had an advantage since your brother went through all those interviews too… so you kinda had an idea of what kind of question would be asked? just wondering

By: Joshua

Joshua — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:33:40 +0000

I’d like to think I’m pretty calm for the most part, and it actually makes me feel a bit sad when I see other med hopefuls getting paranoid over the tinniest thing. It’s really not healthy to get worked up over something as little as one bad mark!

By: Nadia

Nadia — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:11:20 +0000

I think that it’s precisely the obsessive and paranoid part of our personality which characterizes med hopefuls as med hopefuls. With the rat race that the application process has become, it’s hard to stay calm, collected, and unstressed as an undergraduate student. I wonder if anyone’s conducted a study on the anxiety related health disorders of those entering first year medical school!