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"Do you have any question for me?"
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"Tell me about a challenge?"
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"what questions do you have for me"
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"What questions do you have for me? (opened with this question)"
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"Describe one overwhelming experience"
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""I see you have a lot of _____ experience, why not then that field?""
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"why dentistry - i see that you applied to medical school."
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"Tell me about your research."
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"What do you want to do as a dentist with a honors in x or a masters in x?"
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"There is one 30-min open file interview followed by 30-min closed file interview. The open file asks about stuff in the application and varies by the interviewer. My interviewer asked about my school, why dentistry, and some community service."
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"What would you do if you didn't get into dental school?"
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"Tell me about your community involvement"
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"Tell me about yourself."
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"What class did you like the most?"
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"Why Upenn"
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"The interview was more like a conversation where the questions went back and forth. The interviewer used my resume as a template to bring up topics ranging from certain classes I took to some of my extra curricular activities. Very relaxed atmosphere."
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"Why the health field?"
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"What extracurriculars?"
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"Very laid back. It was really more like a conversation. Questions go both ways, so have some prepared."
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"What piano songs do you like to play?"
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"They asked very general questions as why Penn, why dentistry"
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"Do you have any questions for me?"
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"easiest interview EVER. she didnt ask me a single question. she just answered all my questions (so have some good ones prepared) and talked the whole time. amazing"
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"asked me about my research and why its necessary"
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"What does dentistry offer me"
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"Why do you want to be a dentist."
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"What other schools have you applied to?"
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"what do you do in your free time"
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"How do you think your work experience will prepare you for dentistry?"
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"What motivated you to pursue a career in dentistry?"
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"What did u do after coming to the US?"
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"What schools did you look at for undergrad?"
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"Why Penn?"
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"why the change?"
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"Tell me about what you like to do in your spare time."
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"Why dentistry?"
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"Why not Canada?"
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"So I see your father is a physician, was there any pressure to choose medicine?"
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"Why dentistry as opposed to law (my mother is a lawyer)?"
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"Why penn"
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"So you're from Canada?"
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"Tell me about volunteering at the dental office."
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"your concerns about Upenn"
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"tell me about your most difficult , sad and funniest situations"
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"what are your hobbies?"
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"how do you see yourself 5 yrs downthe lane?"
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"How did you end up choosing dentistry?"
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"hobbies,work experience,how will you deal with stress"
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"Why did you apply here?"
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"Would you still do dentistry if it were not profitable?"
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"Why many people from ur school, failed in Human Anatomy? ( I dint get the qstn first, since I was wondering how she got to know abt it ? ) anyways .. tat she shud hav asked our Anat Prof I guess, not me .. very bad ... qstn .. cudnt give a proper answer. te above qsnts followed afterwards. "
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"do you have any question for us?
(i forgot my list of qestions but i managed to ask about the extern program)"
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"What i do for Fun?"
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"How would you feel about relocating to Philadelphia from California?"
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"tell me something that you couldnt do in India and you are able to do here?"
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"What would your parents say are you two best qualities?"
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"How/why did you choose your college?"
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"So you play guitar? "
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"Why do you want to be a dentist?"
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"Why go from marine biology to dentistry?"
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"Epiphany in entering the dental profession."
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"jokingly - why certain bad grades? "
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"What do you do for fun?"
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"where do u see urself in 5 years time and in 10 years time?"
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"Why dentistry? Why U Penn?"
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"What community service activities have you done?"
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"Did you clear all your exams in 1st attempt ? "
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"how did you like Penn?"
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"What was your favorite subject in high school?
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"About my home country."
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"What was the 'epiphany' which lead you to pursue a career in dentistry?"
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"How is your brother doing? (my brother went to Penn dental)"
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"What would your parents consider your two worst qualities?"
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"Why did you volunteer "
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"What was most academically challenging?"
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"Why Penn? What do you like about our school AGAIN besides re-emphasizing that they were ivy-league? "
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"Just general questions about me."
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"WHY DENTISTRY"
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"what got you interested in dentistry?"
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"What are your future goals"
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"what are u expecting from us"
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"Please see above"
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"Why Dentistry? Why Penn?"
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"Why dentistry? He mentioned my application was pretty complete in regards to academia, community service, manual dexterity, research, etc. so he didn't have many questions to ask. "
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"What made you interested in Penn Dental to begin with?
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"Your future goals"
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"how do u like US after coming to US? how do u change after coming here?"
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""How do you think you have changed after you have come to the US", "
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"why upen"
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"I was only asked a couple questions in my interview (i.e. why dentistry? do you want to specialize?). The other half hour was spent listening to my interviewer tell me all about Penn and Philadelphia and how great it is. "
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"Why Penn? How did you hear about it?"
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"how do you like philadelphia so far?"
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"why upenn?"
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"Have you ever considered medicine instead of dentistry? Why dentistry? What have motivated you to pursue a career in dentistry?"
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"What were your best and worst experiences in college?"
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"Why did you immigrate to USA? What are your hobbies?"
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"tell me about this class you took"
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"All standard questions"
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"Name one experience that was life-changing and that you "kicked ass" in?"
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"about my travels and my background - i am eastern european"
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"If you had two free weeks and money wasn't a limitation, what would you do?"
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"If you could only have dinner with five people, dead or alive, who would they be and why?"
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"If you could invite 4 living/nonliving people to dinner, who would you invite and why?"
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"What is your favorite type of cuisine?"
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"Wanna come to our school?"
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"What do you like/dislike about dentistry (regarding specialties)?"
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"How will you wife handle the move (we're from California)?"
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"What other careers have you considered besides dentistry?"
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"What about Penn would be most beneficial for you? What would be the hardest thing about going to Penn?"
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"Why do you want to be a dentist?"
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"tell me about your research. are you interested in research?"
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"Can you imagine yourself here at Penn and living in Philly?"
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"Asked about how I became interested in quilting!"
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"What do you like/dislike about the other schools you have interviewed at? (gave me a good chance to rant about why I didn't like Columbia or BU)"
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"Do you have any questions for me?"
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"What do you do (hobbies) that shows your manual dexterity?"
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"If I had seen a particular opera."
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"Tell me about your home country"
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"tell me about yourself"
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"If you had a class II amalgam patient how well are you prepared for that?"
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"How do you think your work experience will prepare you for dentistry?"
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"they told me they didnt have any questions for me and hoped I would choose their school over others"
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"Is the tuition worth it?"
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"I was mostly asked specific questions from my application."
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"None."
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"What kind of difficulties you faced after coming to the US."
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"What is Sleep Dentistry?"
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"Just talked about the school, it's programs, my undergrad."
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"If there was someone in my practice that was causing problems with patients and other staff members, how would I react. "
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"nothing in particular, we just chatted. we sat down & the prof looked at me and said "well, you're different" - alluding to the fact that I had been a programmer for 7 years before applying. we just chatted about computers for a while"
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"What do you like to do in your spare time?"
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"All of the questions I was asked were pretty standard for dental interviews. I was anticipating being asked about specific things with regard to my application, but most of the questions were pretty standard. I have talked to others who have interviewed there, so this might vary however."
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"i wasnt really asked anything out of the ordinary..i was asked about my childhood which was interesting"
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"You applied to U of Buffalo last year...why are you not there this year?"
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"What will it take for you to come here? What are the chances of you coming here?"
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"None, all standard questions. "
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"what kind of art you do "
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"Why not medicine or vet?"
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"The difference between dentistry and medicine?"
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"Have you bought something for yourself ever since you started earning more money?"
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"nothing"
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"rank your readiness to join this program on a scale of 1-10 and why?"
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"DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS TO ASK US?"
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"What are your hobbies?"
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"none really..what other activities are you involved in outside of dentistry?"
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"What are some of the differences you have seen in dentistry as practised in the U.S compared to the way it was practiced in your country"
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"if you get acceptances from upenn and another school, where will you take admission?"
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"Not specifically a question, but my interviewer was trying to figure out if Penn was my #1 choice. He said, "I understand that not everyone accepts Penn's offer of admission. I don't understand it, but I accept it. I'm sure you'll have a large selection of schools to choose from." At that point, I think he wanted me to reassure him that Penn was my #1 but I didn't pick up on that until later. "
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"What do you think about the future of dentistry?"
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"So, in India, if the Parents are doctors, their children will automatically become doctors, huh ??"
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"why did you take all these non-science courses?
(it ending up being more of a interesting answer than a question, this lead to my rebelious highschool era)"
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"Why do u want an US Degree are u desparte to have it."
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"What I took away from my clinical experience working with special needs patients."
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"I was only asked one question - "why dentistry" I had Dr. Arthur Steinberg for the interview and he was fantastic! We bascially chatted about everything from my city, my experience, food, traveling..etc Very relaxing interview"
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"In your opinion, what is the future of dentistry?"
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"What kind of person are you? Are you a "nerd"? Are you nice?"
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"Luckily, I didn't get any "out of the ordinary" questions. But when I told him that my questions were mostly for students, he asked me to ask him one of them and he would try to answer it. "
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"Tell me about your muscial experience. "
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"What did you like best about moving to Florida?"
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"Why go from marine biology to dentistry?"
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"What's difference you find after coming to US?"
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"standard stuff"
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"nothing fancy"
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"why are you interested in OMS ?"
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"How would you like your children to grow up?"
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"How are the Seattle Seahawks doing?"
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"Where do you see yourself after 10 years ? "
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"How did you adjust after coming to US?"
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"I was asked one question: What do you want to do after you are done with dental school?"
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"N/A"
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"WHat was your favorite subject in high school...(?)"
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"You have got A grade in everything can i see your transcripts."
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"How did you get involved in politics?"
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"I was accessed about my journey to picking the dental profession since I was in another profession first."
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"If you could meet five people, dead or alive, who would they be?"
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"the whole interview was very conversational, he jumps from topic to topic"
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"explain why we shoud choose you over all other students in 2 mins"
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"Tell me about the country you grew up in and is your family supportive of your decision to go into dentistry?"
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"Tell me about your last job."
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"All questions pertained to my file, and past experiences."
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"Are you a good cook?"
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"WHY DID YOU CHOOSE DENTISTRY AS A CAREER."
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"Tell me about your undergraduate school"
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"What are your future goals?"
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"what are you expecting from us"
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"You are asked to treat a patient with no medical history who is in severe pain...what do you do?"
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"Are you married?"
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"How would you persuade a 7 year old child to go to the dentist?"
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"Who instilled the strong interest for community service in your life? Is there a particular figure you draw inspiration from or is from your parents? "
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"Any interesting or memorable incident in your life."
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"what do you miss most in your backhome?"
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"If you weren't doing dentistry what would you be doing?"
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"What is [insert study abroad country here]? How's the food?"
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"how can you see your engineering degree being put to use in the dental field?"
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"Didn't really ask too many questions out of the norm."
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"the organism responsible for juvenile periodontitis"
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"You have been invovled with a lot of multicultural groups, fighting prejudice, etc. What do think when you hear songs like Afroman's colt 45?"
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"all questions were from my secondary and essay. The interviewers just wanted elaborations of stuff I mentioned."
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"Nothing out of the ordinary, just normal interview questions. They just ask about stuff on your application."
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"Another question was how many or what are the schools have you applied for and interview with?"
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