Education in San Antonio

Well, so far, so good.. It has been a challenging few months but the dreaded medical school admissions process has failed to throw anything at you yet that you could not handle. You came to the table with a strong GPA, amazing MCAT scores and a couple of stellar letters of recommendation all of which certainly bolstered your confidence. The initial applications were quite straight forward – the trickiest part there, honestly, was selecting the schools. The essays for the second round of applications were of course a little more nerve-wracking but nothing you were not capable of. Now you are considering a handful of interviews and all of a sudden you have butterflies. You are so close and the idea of somehow ruining things now is hard to stomach. Calm down. You did not get this far as a result of luck. You’ve earned those interviews. A great deal may be riding on them, it’s true, but that doesn’t mean you are not up to the task. Here are a handful of tips that might be useful.

## Relax and don’t forget how you got there.

While telling someone who desperately needs to relax, to relax, always feels like a trite piece of advice at the time it is worth touching on ahead of time. It is only reasonable to be a little nervous. Just reflect as you head into an interview it is with people who were impressed enough with your applications and essays and marks and lertters of reference that they felt they should to meet with you. While the interview is not merely a formality it is with people who are already invested and motivated by what they’ve seen.

## Research the school and its curriculum.

Probably the most common piece of interview advice given for a reason. That you have been granted an interview at all shows that the interviewers are invested in you and what you might bring to their school. You should be showing the same level of investment in them. You should know their school, history, and curricula backwards and forwards and be able to talk intelligently and about your reasons for choosing to apply.

## Have actual answers.

You have read lists of common medical school interview questions. It is essential that you think, ahead of time, about your genuine answers and not just the answers you feel the interviewers want to hear. They’ve been fed the answers that people feel they want to hear a hundred times. Which is not to suggest that you should have strange, off-beat answers instead, but merely that you answer the questions with candor and honesty. If you are able to deliver honest answers that have been considered and not simply prepared you’re far more likely to impress them.

## Ask intelligent questions.

There’ll be occasion during the interview for you to ask questions of your interviewers. There is a good reason for this; very often the questions a person asks can be as revealing as the answers they give. Obviously questions need to be germane to the interview but if you have properly researched the school and truly thought about your potential future involvement with them you’ll almost certainly have at least a few questions. Have those questions well thought out before the interview.

There is no reason to be anxious about a medical school interview so long as you are confident, prepared, and genuinely clear in your own mind about the answers you have. You’ve wanted to get into medical school for a long time and if you’re interviewing you are almost through your medical school admissions. Take a deep breath. You’ll be fine.

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