I graduated with honors from IAUPR. An undergraduate from the local college here shadowed me this last week.. She was looking for some advice on what optometry school to go to. I told her to consider mine. I had fond memories of it.
I was looking on the internet for some good facts to share with this student that could somehow give my alma mater some credit - how somehow my school had improved or something. thats when i stumbled onto this site....looks pretty bleak if you ask me. My school was okay but for sure better than its portrayed.
either my school has worsened, or it has improved and no one writes about it...because it looks like there are only "negative nancys" on here that talk bad about my school, but yet have never been a student there, or even been to puerto rico for that matter. I say if anyone has the right to talk good or bad about MY school its someone who has actually been through it, like me... or my fellow students. I take offense to that...when you say the students...you are implying me, or my classmates. I don't like that. We weren't dumb and were still not dumb imagine that. We've been competitive with our peers all along.
My school wasn't terrible by any means...yeah it may not have been the best in my time, but for sure it wasn't the worst, Then again, i'm sure there's not a single perfect school out there. They all have their good and they all have their bad. These same negative people that talk bad about my school, after having never been there, mind you, seem to be the same ones talking badly about the profession as well. Some of them talk bad and aren't even a part of our profession!!!
Let me tell you something...the profession of optometry is awesome! There is plenty room for those who want to excel in it..maybe not as much room for those mediocre doctors that spend their time being dumb on this forum, and there is even less room for piss-poor ODs...but then again the prospective patients have a way of weeding out the bad. In my own opinion...The ones that are so negative on here are the ones that are butt-hurt that they are being weeded out by their own patients. Word of mouth can be a powerful tool for the good doctors but devastating for the ones that can't cut it.
In the end, it doesn't matter where you went to school. If you're going to be successful you will be regardless of what you studied in undergrad or where you studied your OD.
however....back to the original poster that I quoted. maybe its not so much the student as it is the institution. if taught correctly, a 10 year old could probably do my job with some skill. The facts however don't support your clause....how could it somehow be completely the students year after year since 1981? it doesn't add up...like i said....if anyone can talk good or bad about my school, it would be someone who has been there..ha!....