About youIntermediateTraditional one-on-one, Panel
What's the weakest part of your application?
About you: Tell me about yourself, why this school, strengths, weaknesses and plans.
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Sample answer outline
- Name it directly. Pick the one an interviewer would notice anyway: a low grade, a gap, thin research or clinical hours.
- Give one sentence of context, with no excuses.
- Show what you did about it and the evidence: later grades, a job, a new experience.
- Close with what it taught you that will make you a better student or clinician.
What makes it work
- Naming the weakness first shows honesty and takes the sting out of it.
- Most of the time goes to the fix, not the problem.
Avoid
- Saying you can't think of one.
- A long list of reasons it wasn't your fault.
How to approach about you questions
- Answer the question you were asked in your first sentence.
- Back each claim with one concrete example.
- Connect it to the program and the career.
- Keep it to one or two minutes.
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