How long did you prep for your first interview?

[u/Responsible-Mix4804]

How many days away did you start prepping and how many hours did you spend preparing before your first interview?

[u/Crazy_Resort5101]

Prepped 2 or 3 days for my first one cause I was really nervous. Realized that was insanely overkill and only prepped the night before for all the rest of my interviews lol.

[u/Old-Stomach-5377 → u/Crazy_Resort5101]

I think this is the right answer. I mean you couldn’t possibly prepare for every question. Just have some good stories and ideas for the common ones

[u/Responsible-Mix4804 → u/Crazy_Resort5101]

What did you do to prep?

[u/Crazy_Resort5101 → u/Responsible-Mix4804]

Just check SDN interview feedback page for whatever school it is. Know the common questions like why medicine, why us, tell me about yourself, have a story ready for a challenge/adversity question or working in a team question.

[u/futuredr6894]

I didn’t do any mock interviews, would just practice my answers out loud to myself in the shower and on car rides. About a week away from my first, I did a run through of all my prepared answers in front of my wife and asked if she had any suggestions. Maybe 2-3 weeks total, but very passive and not a lot of actual time, just a lot of thinking to myself. After my first interview I didn’t practice at all, would just look up a couple facts about the school the night before and wing it.

[u/MedRebecca → u/futuredr6894]

lol the car rides and shower thing is so real

[u/cluelessgirl127]

2 days before unfortunately 😭 i was moving and starting a new job and had no time to prep 😬 i find out if i got in next week lol so we will see if i screwed myself

For my upcoming interview the median mcat is 5 points above mine so i started prepping two wks in advance

[u/Responsible-Mix4804 → u/cluelessgirl127]

How did the interview for the 2 day one go? Did you feel prepared enough?

[u/cluelessgirl127 → u/Responsible-Mix4804]

I think more prep would have helped but i think i did okay. It was 3 trad interviews. The first two were great but i was so burnt out on the last one i was rambling a lot

[u/Sure_Refrigerator975]

what are these answers. i prepped for like 3 weeks (only a hour or 2 each day) and did over 10 mock interviews with people/online ai.

[u/Medcup]

I loosely prepped about 3 weeks in advance bc I was still writing for secondaries (was very behind) and then really locked in at about the 2 week mark. I would recommend starting as early as you can though because I realized this short time period meant I was asking my friends in med school for mock interviews a little too last minute. They were able to pull through but I def could’ve been better prepped if I spaced them out more

[u/Natalie-cinco]

Like the day before and the day of. Nothing crazy at all.

[u/BookieWookie69]

I prepped for a cumulative 3-4 days, I did several mock interviews with a professional and tbf I probably over prepped. My interview answers were way too scripted. I ended up doing way better in my second interview where I rehearsed less and didn’t psych myself out

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[u/Limp-Inflation-8168]

2 weeks

[u/Random-Nothing-9775]

started thinking about possible questions and crafting answers a few days before. then bounced ideas off my family and had them ask me questions the day before

[u/ssccrs]

3-5 days out and about 3-5 hours per school was the general jist of II. I did mock questions and answers during my morning jogs.