I'm in my first semester at NYCPM and doing well. I plan to have around a 3.2-3.3 after first semester and plan to do even better next semester now that I've gotten the hang of things. It is by no means a hard school or what these people make it out to be. It is however medical school, regardless of what others think as well. It is work. You are taking the same classes the people in touro are taking not too far away practically. The tests in my opinion, are pretty straight forward and not very difficult. The teachers make this as easy as possible for the students and actually do give a **** regardless of what others say. YOU ARE EXPECTED TO KNOW MATERIAL FROM UNDERGRAD, and by that I mean the professors are not going to spend an entire lecture teaching you stuff you already should be familiar with. If you don't know it well then it's time to brush up. The problem with this school is they accept a lot of students, and are taking more risk on students they accept. I don't see what's so bad about that. They give a lot of people a chance to become doctors and it's not like youre shipping off to Grenada. I can see why a lot of my class got accepted, because a lot of the students are very diverse. The teachers are always willing to talk and they talk to each other a lot about the students. Teachers will follow your grades in every single class and they will find you and press you to do better if you slip up. Even if you've never talked to the teacher before, believe me they know who you are. I don't really know how much more a teacher is going to do for you.
Temple would be a good choice, its all the same material you're learning so I don't really see what the difference is. Only difference is you won't have the dean bitching out the bottom 20% of the class and making the tests easier so these people can get through the first semester. They aren't doing this because they are greedy, they are giving these people the benefit of the doubt this first semester and a chance to succeed. This is one recurring theme that I actually do really like about this school. Next semester I doubt this will be the case. I mean c'mon the class everyone is doing bad in is biochem.... and its really not much harder than the undergrad version. The attendance thing idk how I feel about it. I will say, you know what you're signing up for. You aren't going to be learning from home during residency. You can't be strolling in late when you're practicing. Save your skips for before tests and finals. I would recommend dorming and living close regardless of wherever you go. This is work, it's not easy. You'd be surprised how many points i've earned waking up at 5am and studying up until the test.
I would say I'm pretty neutral about the school. I try to be friendly with everyone but generally stay out of the politics of the class, and my god there are politics and cliques. I just show up to the party with beers if we don't have a test Monday and drink with whoever is drinking. I don't love or hate this school, I see it as an opportunity to become a doctor as you should as well. I'm not originally from NYC, but live close enough to drive and tbh I hate it. It's an overpriced dump, but its fun to have experienced living in "the greatest city in the world" for 4 years. The subway system is cool, can be anywhere in 15 minutes.
