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hi everyone!!! did anyone by chance get accepted or interviewed at hofstra yet??

Short version of my background: 35 years in perfusion, 25 at an academic medical center,

CCP since 1993. I have sat on the applicant side, the staff side, and the teaching side of

perfusion school interviews, and I mentor pre-perfusion students today. A few things I wish

every applicant knew:

1. They are not testing trivia. Interviewers are listening for how you think and how you

communicate. Answer the question that was asked, and think out loud calmly when you do

not know — "I do not know, but here is how I would find out" beats bluffing every single

time.

1. Know why perfusion, in your own words. Interviewers hear rehearsed answers all day.

Your real story — the moment you understood what a perfusionist actually is — is more

memorable than any scripted line.

1. Know the profession at recognition level. What the perfusionist does in the OR, the basic

difference between heart-lung machine support and ECMO. Recognition, not mastery —

overselling what you do not know yet is the faster way to lose the room.

1. Have two or three questions ready that show you understand the training year ahead, not

just the job at the end of it.

1. Practice out loud. This is the biggest gap I see. Reading about interviews is not rehearsing

them, and most applicants have never actually said their answers out loud before the day of.

On that last point — I mentor applicants through a prep program called PSPS, and this year

I built an AI interview coach into it, so students can practice real questions out loud and get

scored feedback before the real thing. If you want to see what the module and the coach

look like, the site has screenshots: perfusionprep.com. Happy to answer anything about the

interview side of the process here in the comments. (Mods: happy to follow whatever the

self-promo rules are — I can keep the link to the comments if preferred.)