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I've seen a lot of posts on this forum about people wondering if they should choose NYU over other schools so I thought I'd write my thoughts about the school. I'm currently a D3 student. If you have a choice of going to any other school please save yourself the money and hassle and go. No matter where you go you'll find a lot of flaws with the school you choose. Let me explain my complaints with NYU.
1. Its a very expensive school but I don't feel its worth it for the clinical education you get. I don't think the value of the education is worth a $70,000/ year tuition bill. Living in NYC can be very expensive and if I could do it over again I would prefer to go some place smaller. There is honestly very little time to enjoy all NYC offers.
2. We started out with 232 people at the beginning of our first year and currently we have a little under 200. NYU has done a lot to try and better their reputation of being a weed out school but we still lose a lot of students. With such a big class size, no one will give you personalized attention that you may get at another school. A lot of students tranfer and drop out but the majority are dismissed.
3. The faculty is not the best in the world. People teaching you anatomy, biochem, organ systems, physio and gen path are not the greatest in the world. Recently the departments have decided to make the exams very very hard in order to get students to score higher on the Step 1 boards. They want to increase the reputation of the school very badly under the current Dean. It doesn't seem fair to make the exams next to impossible and not teach the material to students. Most faculty in clinic are genuinely good and out to help you but many can have bad egos and get very nasty.
In a nutshell...if NYU is your only acceptance then defintely take it and run but if you have a choice between NYU and ANY OTHER SCHOOL....go to another school.
-Cheers
1. Its a very expensive school but I don't feel its worth it for the clinical education you get. I don't think the value of the education is worth a $70,000/ year tuition bill. Living in NYC can be very expensive and if I could do it over again I would prefer to go some place smaller. There is honestly very little time to enjoy all NYC offers.
2. We started out with 232 people at the beginning of our first year and currently we have a little under 200. NYU has done a lot to try and better their reputation of being a weed out school but we still lose a lot of students. With such a big class size, no one will give you personalized attention that you may get at another school. A lot of students tranfer and drop out but the majority are dismissed.
3. The faculty is not the best in the world. People teaching you anatomy, biochem, organ systems, physio and gen path are not the greatest in the world. Recently the departments have decided to make the exams very very hard in order to get students to score higher on the Step 1 boards. They want to increase the reputation of the school very badly under the current Dean. It doesn't seem fair to make the exams next to impossible and not teach the material to students. Most faculty in clinic are genuinely good and out to help you but many can have bad egos and get very nasty.
In a nutshell...if NYU is your only acceptance then defintely take it and run but if you have a choice between NYU and ANY OTHER SCHOOL....go to another school.
-Cheers