First things first, dont take advice from someone 3 weeks into school who hasnt even written their first test. Everyone loves Touro the first 2 months.
1) Without the 10% clicker marks, you will absolutely fail PD, OMM, and Path. One fail=remediation. Two fails = committee meets to decide to remediate you or kick you out. Three fails=automatic expulsion.
2) Touro isn't a self learning environment. Touro has more class hours than most other schools. We were at school until 3-4-5pm.
3) Touro has had the lowest comlex 2 score IN THE NATION ten years running. We're still at a fail rate of 20%.
4) There's a 10% chance that you will not graduate from Touro. Six fourth year students were blocked from graduation this summer and tried to sue the school. That was just the fourth years kicked out. In my class, we've already had four students disappear. Do you want a ten percent chance of 300k debt and no degree?
5) Touro for, the first time beaten the national average on comlex1 by 0.06 standard deviations. Now if you want a decent specialty, you should aim for +1.0 Standard deviation on comlex1 & 2.
The step 1 score is terrible considering:
a) More than 50% of the class had done an SMP at Touro or elsewhere
b) Touro's average mcat being 4 points higher than overall DO average
c) The average first two years at Touro being insanely harder than other MD and DO schools. That comes down to the over-testing, huge volume of minutiae, and time wasting in class
