Interview Day

The interview day experience on the Twin Cities campus is a full day program where our hope is you will walk away with more information about our school than you had when you entered the building.

You will be interviewing under the Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) Program. The MMI is a circuit exercise, where applicants are presented scenarios that will measure non-cognitive characteristics such as communication skills, professionalism, ethical decision making and moral behavior.

Applicants will go through a 10 station circuit exercise (8 evaluated stations and 2 rest stations). Two of the 8 evaluated stations are team exercises. The stations will be 7 minutes in length with 4 minutes in between each station. Prior to beginning the MMI, each applicant will have 1 20-minute freeform recruitment conversation, which is a condensed version of the traditional one-on-one interview. This evaluated interaction allows you to meet with a member of our medical school community, where you will be asked some open-ended structured questions and you will also have the opportunity to learn more about the medical school community. For more information, please view this MMI presentation.

Schedule of the Day 

8:15 Welcome & MMI Overview: Office of Admissions

9:00 MMI Interviews

11:35 Conversation with Medical School Faculty Member

12:15 Lunch with Current Medical Students

1:15 Diversity Dialogue

1:55 Driven to Discover Presentation

2:30 Interview Day Wrap Up

To request disability accommodations for access during your interview, please contact Serena Jones-White, Interview Coordinator, at sjoneswh@umn.edu at least two weeks prior to your interview day. 

On the Duluth campus, we interview Monday through Friday depending on interviewer availability. We usually host two to four candidates each day. You'll have two one-on-one interviews with voting members of our admissions committee. Each interview is scheduled for an hour so you have plenty of time to shine. Before your interviews, you'll have informal conversations with admissions and financial aid staff. After your interviews, you'll have lunch with other candidates and current medical students.

Schedule of the Day: 

9:30 Welcome & Overview of the Day

9:35 Financial Aid

9:40 Overview of Curriculum

10:00 First Interview

11:00 Second Interview

12:00 Lunch & Tour with Current Medical Students

1:15 Interview Day Wrap Up

To request disability accommodations for access during your interview, please contact Katy Frederickson, Director of Admissions, at katyfred@d.umn.edu as soon as possible after your interview is scheduled.