Your admissions interviewer is trying to assess how well you'll fit into their program by determining which qualities you already embrace. You'll find several keywords peppered across their website, including compassion, thoughtful, respectful, cooperative intellectualism, professional, skillful, responsible, flexible, adaptable, and communicative. While researching the college and its programs, take notes of any areas where you are mutually aligned.

"Physician assistants must demonstrate interpersonal and communication skills that result in effective information exchange with patients, patient's families, physicians, professional associates, and other individuals within the health care system. Physician assistants are expected to create and sustain a therapeutic and ethically sound relationship with patients, use effective communication skills to elicit and provide information, adapt communication style and messages to the context of the interaction, and work effectively with physicians and other health care professionals as a member or leader of a health care team or other professional group, demonstrate emotional resilience and stability, adaptability, flexibility, and tolerance of ambiguity and anxiety, accurately and adequately document information regarding care for medical, legal, quality, and financial purposes"