Touro Interview

I had my interview at Touro University in Nevada today.

The day started out with a brief tour of the campus followed by a discussion with the director of admissions regarding things such as financial information and campus polices, etc.

My interview group was a group of 12 students, two of which were from BYU.

After our discussion with Roger Corbman, Director of Admissions and really nice guy, we split up in groups of six. The first group of six had interview with two faculty members and the other six did a detailed tour of the campus with two current first year students. They showed us all of the major aspects of the campus including the lecture hall, anatomy lab, library and break rooms.

We then came back and our group went in for interviews. I interviewed with two really nice faculty members, Dr. Skyba and Dr. Bondarenko. They had my application in front of them and reviewed some things and asked me questions. One of the questions asked was if Obama asked me to make a change to the health care system, what would it be. I thought I answered that question just fine. The asked me about family life and about my experience flying airplanes and a few other things. I felt that I did the best I could do and that there is nothing that I could have changed to do better. I gave it my best effort and that is all I can ask of myself.

Roger Corbman advised us that we would know the admissions decision on Feb 13th in the morning.

There are three possible outcomes: admitted, waitlisted, rejected. Roger said that one third of the people on the waitlist are usually moved into an admitted status as students who get acceptances choose to go to other schools, thus freeing an open spot in the upcoming class. Additionally, some of those on the waitlist are given early acceptances in the next years class and don't have to go through the application process again.

The interview started at 8:30 am and we finished at about 3pm. I was ready to head home after the day and I was extremely tired.