The University of Texas at Austin Health Professions Advising
PAI 5.03 512-471-3172
SAMPLE PHARMACY SCHOOL
INTERVIEW QUESTIONS
What kind of community/volunteer work have you done?
What is the most rewarding experience of your life?
Who is your favorite author?
Have you worked while you have been in school?
Have you had the opportunity to travel abroad?
What accomplishment are you most proud of?
Tell me about the most difficult period of your life. How did you deal with this?
What are your strengths? What are your weaknesses?
What is the most difficult decision that you’ve had to make?
How do you plan to finance your pharmacy school education?
How are you going to decide which pharmacy school to attend?
How do you handle adversity?
Why should we pick you instead of someone else?
Why do you want to be a pharmacist?
What will you do if you are not accepted to pharmacy school?
When did you first decide that you wanted to pursue pharmacy as a career? Was there a specific cause
for your decision? Has anything happened since that time to strengthen or weaken your decision?
Can you see other careers in which you could achieve the same goals or meet the same needs?
What steps have you taken to find out more about pharmacy as a career?
How do you study? How do you manage your time?
What courses do you find most enjoyable, most difficult? Why?
Describe your hobbies and interests.
Describe your best/least favorite course at UT and why it falls into that category.
Why did you choose ______________ as your major?
Are there any questions you would like to ask me?
Describe a situation where you've worked with people from different backgrounds.
What type of person do you enjoy being with? What type of person irritates you most and how have you
dealt with these types of people?
What about yourself would you most like the interviewer to know?
Do you have any particular populations you would like to work with? Have you worked with this type of
population in the past?
How do you handle stress?
What characteristics does a good pharmacist possess?
What current event in pharmacy have you heard about or been following?
What are the advantages and limitations that you see going into pharmacy? (Be specific)
What problems do you predict that pharmacy will face in the next decade?
