Interview Day

The interview day experience on the Twin Cities campus is a virtual experience that takes place across two half days via Zoom where our hope is you will walk away having experienced time with our staff, faculty, students, and community.

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). 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.

Sample Schedule of Day 1 

9:00 AM - Login to Zoom

9:05 AM -  Welcome & MMI Overview: Office of Admissions

9:30 AM - MMI Interviews

12:00 PM - Next Steps

Sample Schedule of Day 2 (Optional)

9:30 AM - Welcome from the Office of Admissions

10:00 AM - Faculty Conversation

10:45 AM - Break

10:50 AM - Coffee Talk with Student Ambassadors

11:20 AM - Wrap Up

To request disability or accessibility accommodations please contact the Office of Admissions at meded@umn.edu at least two weeks prior to your interview day.

On the Duluth campus for the 2020-2021 cycle, we will host all interviews virtually via the platform Zoom. 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 schedule 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. There will also be opportunities to connect with current students after your interview at a later date.

Schedule of the Day: 

9:45 Welcome and Overview of the Day

10:00 First interview

11:00 Second Interview

12:00 Wrap up

To Request disability accommodations for access during your interview, please contact Erin Wiig, Admissions & Student Affairs Coordinator, at erinwiig@d.umn.edu as soon as possible after your interview is scheduled.