Touro COM - New York (TouroCOM-NY) Discussion Thread 2012 - 2013

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walleyealx said:
After my interview here we sat through a small financial aid talk. The paperwork we received estimated our potential debt at close to 300k.
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Most DO schools hover around that figure when including tuition and living expenses. U North Texas and one or two other DO schools are the few exceptions. :-(
 
unless you wanna go to MSU OOS....Then your looking at close to half a million debt prob
 
walleyealx said:
After my interview here we sat through a small financial aid talk. The paperwork we received estimated our potential debt at close to 300k.
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Scary. I'm willing to take the debt... although it is incredibly daunting. I'm just trying to pick and choose the schools who are a little bit less than others. Although, I thought Touro was $38000/yr. I guess they went up from last year.
 
CRCprofessional said:
Scary. I'm willing to take the debt... although it is incredibly daunting. I'm just trying to pick and choose the schools who are a little bit less than others. Although, I thought Touro was $38000/yr. I guess they went up from last year.
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I don't have the papers in front of me, but I think it said $41,000/yr for the current students. (might go up). Plus the cost of living, which is about as high as it gets.
 
CRCprofessional said:
I think CCOM is the most expensive D.O. school. $300,000 debt? No thanks...
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someone did some calculation between CCOM and DMU and figured out that it really isnt' all that much more considering interest rate differences between the two loasn etc... ( i didn't really get it, didn't feel like doing it myself)

anyways, if you guys want to look its in "Should I go to DMU interview?" thread in preosteo forum.

Basically that person was saying that you should just go to whatever school you like the best regardless of the cost
 
walleyealx said:
I don't have the papers in front of me, but I think it said $41,000/yr for the current students. (might go up). Plus the cost of living, which is about as high as it gets.
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The tuition is currently at 41K...but this will only go up in the future. I believe the cost was 38K 1yr ago i think......the tuition can go up by next yr.
Remember, as the school becomes more known and students get into respectable residencies, the tuition will go up as long as there are those willing to pay for it.
Also due to clicker sessions, most (99%) of our lectures are on iTunes. Thus our class times are very short which can make us feel lazy and procrastinate. The good news is that in order to do well in clicker sessions, u have to either have A)smart friend beside you, or B)study for each class prior to the session. The school's curriculum follows a rigid structure so it is easy to follow and prepare for the exam.
One thing good about Touro is that they structure their curriculum to help you with the board exam. I'm very confident that my current yr will do awesome on our boards.

Also, there are ways to cut down on cost of living....just be smart about it. For example, I only have basic phone as emergency. I use wifi from school to make most of my calls. School has a gym...it's not very good but does its job. Cut down on drinking/smoking....or basically live like a hermit if you want. However don't deprive yourself on everything 'cuz that may get u depressed. Just judge for yourself what you need and don't need.
Sorry if my post is just a repeat info.....cuz I really don't have time to browse thro past posts to filter out repeated infos ^___^

I'm just a verbal diarrhea on a page
 
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Hey guys, are any of you interviewing tomorrow and saw that the interviews were possibly cancelled?
 
Hey I'm still interviewing tomorrow. Did you call the dean?
 
Pokemon Master said:
I called, and he said to call back at 10am. We barely got any rain here. I think Sandy is a dud 🙁
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Pretty sure it was you that called Dr. Cammarata while he was talking to us haha. I was able to interview although the whole tour and talks were modified
 
GHETTOFLOW21 said:
Pretty sure it was you that called Dr. Cammarata while he was talking to us haha. I was able to interview although the whole tour and talks were modified
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How many people interviewed today? My interview was scheduled from 1-5, and its pretty much impossible to get to Harlem from Queens, so he told me to call back on Wednesday.
 
Pokemon Master said:
How many people interviewed today? My interview was scheduled from 1-5, and its pretty much impossible to get to Harlem from Queens, so he told me to call back on Wednesday.
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There were 7 of us. I didn't receive an email but my friend did who was interviewing with me. We were scheduled to go 1-5 but called the night before and he told us to come in at 9 am. I was really impressed with the school and their curriculum. If you have any questions feel free to PM me!
 
GHETTOFLOW21 said:
There were 7 of us. I didn't receive an email but my friend did who was interviewing with me. We were scheduled to go 1-5 but called the night before and he told us to come in at 9 am. I was really impressed with the school and their curriculum. If you have any questions feel free to PM me!
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I registered for a tour of the school a month ago (which took place last Thursday), so I already got a tour of the place as well as interacted with some of the staff/faculty and the students. I'm also pretty impressed by their curriculum/facilities. However, the thing that surprised me the most was how absolutely helpful and friendly the students and faculty were. The guy giving our tour (who was amazing, by the way), randomly stopped a bunch of students and faculty and let us Q&A them.
 
hey did anyone get emails today with the "[2017interviewees]" subject line?
 
Hi all:

I figured that, for once, in spite of all my neurotic and sometimes helpful but mostly just time-killing checking and re-freshing of SDN, I'd try to use this forum to do me (and my wallet and maybe the wallets of others) some good.

I will be interviewing here during the AM session on 11/05. As my flight is scheduled to depart from JFK at a little after 3:00pm, I will be high-tailing it promptly at 1:00pm to the airport via cab. I plan to have the cab meet me curbside at 1:05pm. It is possible to reserve a taxi online (for a $7 fee). The cab fare to JFK is set at $45 and, plus tip and reservation fee, about a $67 total ride (ouch, right?).

The cab can hold three people and luggage (assuming we are all traveling relatively light). Imagine--a trip to JFK via that classy sassy Yellow Cab vehicle all the way from the interview to JFK international for only $22.33! (I would gladly absorb the cost of the outlying penny.) I hope to split this three ways, but would also be willing to go "halvsies" if only one other person out there is down for the cause. Hey, $33.50 is still much better than $67.

Please, PM me if you are interested and we will work out the details from there.

Just to let you know, I did contact Issa Sow to confirm that the interview schedule would not conflict with my need to depart promptly at 1:00pm in order to catch my flight. I hope some of you out there will take me up on this offer! Plus, what an awesome SDN bonding experience this could be...

Best,
Me
 
Can someone please post some pictures of what this school looks like from inside? I have only seen the outside (looks horrible btw) and heard somewhere that inside is actually kinda nice.

Thank you
 
zoner said:
Can someone please post some pictures of what this school looks like from inside? I have only seen the outside (looks horrible btw) and heard somewhere that inside is actually kinda nice.

Thank you
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It looks like a jail....lol j/k
The school goes from 2nd-5th floor....2nd FL has lecture hall, study rooms, OMM/PD room, and MedSim room (i think). The layout isn't too big. Imagine 2 lecture hall in the middle with row of study rooms north and south, and elevators on west and east. Hallway layout is a rectangle. The study rooms are little noisy with the vent. 2nd and 3rd FL have no windows but the ceiling is high enuf so you don't feel clustered.
3rd FL has the library with quiet study space. Also has ur anatomy lab, patho/histo lab (not used now), OSCE room, dean's office.The hallway layout is almost w shaped.
4th FL has offices/meeting room for the faculty, cafe with gym inside, pharm lecture rooms and pharm study rooms (pharm students can kick u out). I like the study rooms here cuz they have nicer looking desk and has some earth tones....also there's window high on the wall.
5th FL is for research and some faculty office.
U can access the rooftop only during Sukkot and they will build a temporary Sukkah there...but not for u to sleep in it.

Also, i'm surprised there was interview yesterday cuz our exam was cancelled and school was closed
 
Mash43 said:
The tuition is 41000 from what I have read. How is that cheaper. what are you guys comparing it to
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If you remove state schools from the equation, most medical schools (in major cities or the entire north east) are 50k+. This is true across the board. Einstein is 60K+ tuition. UVermont is 71K. CCOM is ~65K. Nova is 60+K IIRC.
 
CRCprofessional said:
Scary. I'm willing to take the debt... although it is incredibly daunting. I'm just trying to pick and choose the schools who are a little bit less than others. Although, I thought Touro was $38000/yr. I guess they went up from last year.
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Touro was 38K (with all fees included, technically it was 34K and a ton of fees) when i started. And it has gone up about 1k per year. So I assume it was 36 and 37K its first two years and that would make it 41K this upcoming year.
 
Kliffmeister said:
It looks like a jail....lol j/k
The school goes from 2nd-5th floor....2nd FL has lecture hall, study rooms, OMM/PD room, and MedSim room (i think). The layout isn't too big. Imagine 2 lecture hall in the middle with row of study rooms north and south, and elevators on west and east. Hallway layout is a rectangle. The study rooms are little noisy with the vent. 2nd and 3rd FL have no windows but the ceiling is high enuf so you don't feel clustered.
3rd FL has the library with quiet study space. Also has ur anatomy lab, patho/histo lab (not used now), OSCE room, dean's office.The hallway layout is almost w shaped.
4th FL has offices/meeting room for the faculty, cafe with gym inside, pharm lecture rooms and pharm study rooms (pharm students can kick u out). I like the study rooms here cuz they have nicer looking desk and has some earth tones....also there's window high on the wall.
5th FL is for research and some faculty office.
U can access the rooftop only during Sukkot and they will build a temporary Sukkah there...but not for u to sleep in it.

Also, i'm surprised there was interview yesterday cuz our exam was cancelled and school was closed
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The above is all true. I will just lay this out there. IDK how many interviews everyone has been on but this is 85-90% of medical schools right now: 2 lecture halls. 1 anatomy lab. 1 OSCE/Sim lab. 1 library. +/- cafeteria. Every medical school is 5 rooms (6 if they have a dedicated cafeteria) and the rest of the tour is flack to distract you and/or show off non-medical school related facilities. AKA, you dont own the undergrad facilties, they just happen to be there. You dont have any stake in the hospital, it just happens to be in the building, next door, 10 blocks away. I realized rather quickly every tour had the same 5 interchangeable rooms and that was the entirety of the "medical school".

This is no different. You don't need a million floors to house the 5 rooms. And we have another 10 rooms of various utility to show you. You will love them. They're nice. You'll use them if you come here. But they're not overly relevant to your education or day-to-day either. You'll really like the inside of the school. It looks really nice in there (looked really nice when I went there, and has gotten trememdously better looking inside since then).

The outside youll love or hate. I loved it. But I love that it looks like classic harlem. There is a community appearance and they blended in. Some people hate it, and they "dont get it". Its not their fault, they just can't understand that harlem has a surprising amount of renovation and money running through it and chooses to maintain a certain asthetic despite being all brand new buildings. I do get grumpy that they dont buy out a store front or two on 125th to have a better entrance, because having such a tiny entrance on 125th is almost embarassing, but we all use the larger 124th street entrance anyway, so we barely see 125th except when its lunch break and we want harlem food.
 
Is that how it is for schools in NYC as in everything is contained within one building? So once you walk into the building, you never leave? Also, the building must be gianormous if it can fit the gym and the library in there. To anyone who has been to NSU health profession building, is the Touro's buliding anything like that?

Still hoping for some more pictures... Thank you for the detailed descriptions though.
 
Well columbia's entire medical school is a few floors of one building (they have a separate research building). Same thing with NYU.

I havent been inside the others so i couldnt tell you for certain, but generally the trend in ALL medical schools is to be contained within a very small area of one building. I can tell you that almost every place i interviewed at was like that. Stony Brook, Vermont, UMDNJ, RWJ, Drexel, SUNY upstate, and all the DO schools just to name a few. There are tons more. Only NY Medical College and Penn State are ones I can definitely think of that had a "college campus" feel to their medical school proper, rather than having the entire medical school stuffed in the corner of a building and being told "but you have free reign to use anything else we have for the undergrads"
 
zoner said:
Is that how it is for schools in NYC as in everything is contained within one building? So once you walk into the building, you never leave? Also, the building must be gianormous if it can fit the gym and the library in there. To anyone who has been to NSU health profession building, is the Touro's buliding anything like that?

Still hoping for some more pictures... Thank you for the detailed descriptions though.
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My boyfriend is at Nova, completely different. Not even half the size. In my opinion, much more student friendly in terms of study spaces though.
 
Sending in my secondary to this school tomorrow. Is it considered late for this school?
 
docmayer said:
Sending in my secondary to this school tomorrow. Is it considered late for this school?
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No, I don't think so. They were delayed in getting secondaries out. I think they've only had a few rounds of interviews.
 
does anyone know if they are giving out interviews to everyone who received a secondary this year? I submitted my secondary a while back but haven't been invited to interview 🙁
 
How long does it take to receive a secondary from this school? I released my primary 10/23. I've already received secondaries and even an invite from another school but I've heard nothing from TouroNY. :/
 
In my case, primary was released on Oct 11 and got secondary on Oct 15.
 
lutts said:
In my case, primary was released on Oct 11 and got secondary on Oct 15.
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Yikes! Officially, AACOMAS states the release date to be Oct 25th. I wonder if Sandy affects that at all or if I've been screened out. Thanks!
 
c0mplex said:
How long does it take to receive a secondary from this school? I released my primary 10/23. I've already received secondaries and even an invite from another school but I've heard nothing from TouroNY. :/
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My timeline:

Primary released 10/18
Secondary received 10/18
Secondary sent to school 10/25 (with confirmation)

I have yet to hear about an interview, though. They say follow-up 3 weeks after sending the secondary, so I will be following up 3 weeks to the day 🙂
 
CRCprofessional said:
My timeline:

Primary released 10/18
Secondary received 10/18
Secondary sent to school 10/25 (with confirmation)

I have yet to hear about an interview, though. They say follow-up 3 weeks after sending the secondary, so I will be following up 3 weeks to the day 🙂
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Hmmm, I was complete 9/20. I guess I should f/u, too. But I'm worried they're too bogged down from the storm. Should I call or email? If call, what number?
 
Guero said:
Hmmm, I was complete 9/20. I guess I should f/u, too. But I'm worried they're too bogged down from the storm. Should I call or email? If call, what number?
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I had a question about my LOR and emailed Issa Sow. It seems he hasn't always been quick to respond (based on past posts), but I didn't have an issue.
 
Guero said:
Hmmm, I was complete 9/20. I guess I should f/u, too. But I'm worried they're too bogged down from the storm. Should I call or email? If call, what number?
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I called several times to the office to reschedule my interview, no one answered ...😕
here is the number 212 851-1199
 
CRCprofessional said:
I had a question about my LOR and emailed Issa Sow. It seems he hasn't always been quick to respond (based on past posts), but I didn't have an issue.
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Thanks, I googled him, found his addy, and sent him an email.

JoAyi said:
I called several times to the office to reschedule my interview, no one answered ...😕
here is the number 212 851-1199
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Thanks. I'll try calling if I don't hear back from him in a week or so.
 
www.touro.edu and their FB page make it pretty clear that they are dealing with a lot of issues from the storm right now, mostly being without power :/
 
Received secondary invite on 10/18, just stuck my secondary in the mail yesterday, along with $200 check... :lame: Hope it's worth it... :xf:
 
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Is anyone else still on hold for their interviews (that were supposed to take place last week during the hurricane, but couldn't make it)?
 
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