I'm a first year student at New York Med, and I can say that thus far, my experience here has been great. Classes are very organized, and we have a great scribe service that basically allows you to skip any classes you want without being screwed over come exam time, since the scribes follow the professors' lectures word by word. The administration is quite helpful and receptive to student needs, and professors are very accessible to students and student concerns. Our MEC building is brand new and awesome, and thats where you will be spending most of your time. Our library is nice and has ample study space, unlike many of the other crappy libraries I experienced when I was interviewing last year. Most first and second year students live on campus, either in Grasslands I or Grasslands II, and the cool thing is that they dont make you move out after your first year (which would prove to be quite the dick move for all the Californians) and they allow you to keep your same room for second year. The first year-class is pretty tight knit, and tend to organize many outings and events as a whole group. Although Valhalla leaves much to be desired in terms of things to do, most students have two options when it comes to night-life, one being what's referred to as "local," which involves White Plains and the surrounding areas, equipped with many bars, pubs, and restaurants to suit a wide variety of tastes and fancies, and "city," which well, needs no introduction. Our campus is georgeous in the summer-time, but can be a negative if you have bad allergies to pollen or ragweed, and the winter can be quite brutal, with snow sometimes as frequent as tri-weekly. If you're from California though, you will spend many of the winter months obsessing with the snow, to an extent that it will most probably interfere with your studies. The school has many and i mean MANY opportunites for its students to be involved with prjects at Westchester Medical Center, seeing as this is the only Level I trauma center that serves the entire Hudson Valley and regions north, in other words, its one kick-ass hospital, nothing that i think Drexel can even come close to. In fact, Bill Clinton initially came to West Med, and was about to have his surgery here, until he was referred to Columbia Prebyterian by one of our surgeons. In our first-year, we are able to do things such as scrub in on liver transplants or volunteer in the ER, if we like. Research opportunites here are ample, and our deans are very helpful in that they send out a 50 page booklet that lists all of the research projects in progress at either the college or the hospital, and will even pay students to do summer research. Furthermore, most students opt to spend only their first 2 years in Westchester, and then move to NYC for their 3rd and 4th years, seeing as we have St. Vincent's and Metropolitan Med, as our teachin affiliates. If moving to NYC after 2 years doesnt sell you, I don't know what will. Well i can go on and on, but i think i've given a good enough picture of our school.
I'm just kidding. I haven't been to NYMC so I'm obviously biased here, but I loved Drexel and everyone there seemed really happy.
