Biostat PhD Phone Interviews

[asue]

I just got asked by a professor for a 15 min phone interview. Does anyone know what that entails? He said it would be a 15 min "discussion."

[Bayesian1701]

I have not had a phone interview but during a visit, I had four 15 minute interviews.   It was a stat PhD program though so it might vary a bit.  In two meetings we basically just covered my research interests and theirs.   In two of them, we also covered my undergraduate research experience and why I want a PhD in statistics.   I would imagine that the main questions would be why you want to go to graduate school (maybe why biostat over general stats?), what are your research interests are if any,  and a description of the program.   I wouldn't stress about it too much since they told you it was a 15 minute interview.