faking an accent for the interview?

[hellopeople]

can I do this? is it ethically wrong

[Torntoiletpaper]

And in what situation do you need to fake an accent...?

[Bambi]

18 hours ago, hellopeople said:

can I do this? is it ethically wrong

You want to be authentic, to be yourself and show whom you are. Faking anything is starting off on the wrong foot and is not helpful, certainly not in your interests. I would not do it if I considered myself a serious candidate. It is ethically wrong to fake anything related to the process of applying to medical school, deception and deceiving others is wrong.

[coldpizzahotsriracha]

please don't lmao

[clever_smart_boy_like_me]

How would you recover if you stumbled and let your real accent out.. 

Hmm.. I think you should go for it! Let us know how it goes!! 

[rmorelan]

actually honestly curious what would be the point ha

speaking as someone that can do a few accents - by product of my background ha

[Persephone]

Are you worried about racism due to a non-Canadian accent? I would just stick with how you naturally speak. You've got enough on your mind during an interview to add something like that to the mix.

[EricLeman34]

lmao what

[trimethoprim]

Dare to do what few have even dreamed of! 

[hellopeople]

yolo am i right guys

[SunAndMoon]

no it is not in fact you should switch accents every station 

[clever_smart_boy_like_me]

14 hours ago, SunAndMoon said:

no it is not in fact you should switch accents every station 

Level up and change the pitch of your voice with every accent change! Are you a 10 year old boy? A 50 year old woman? A man in his 20s? A young teenage girl? We'll never know! 

[Bluecolorisnice]

Do it if it improves your confidence. Try british and australian

[Medddddd]

ventriloquism instead??

[FailureToThrive]

I actually did this during my MMI. I never really spoke the language extensively before and it had been a couple years since I even spoke a word of it, so I didn't have an existing "accent". I decided to make-up a pretty strange accent to sound smarter haha, dropped the weird accent after school started. I guess it worked... But I probably wouldn't recommend it haha