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I'm in the same position. My secondary was received just a few days earlier. I'm both working full time nights and going to school full time so I'm hoping to find out soon or else getting out of work/exams is going to be ridiculous. I will let you know if I hear anything, maybe we'll be in the same group.
Hello new TouroCOM students, and potential/future ones:
I recently got accepted and wanted to see if any one is interested in a room mate. I want to live with a female TouroCom med student ... so let me know if you guys are interested!
also, congrats to every one who is in .... and im rooting for those waiting/applying!
I recently got accepted and wanted to see if any one is interested in a room mate. I want to live with a female TouroCom med student ... so let me know if you guys are interested!
also, congrats to every one who is in .... and im rooting for those waiting/applying!
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First of all congrats. You'll probably get better responses on the official class thread or in the yahoo group. I know theres a couple of people there looking for roommates there. Also for those on the waitlist I am rooting for you guys and hope to see you in the fall.
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heres the class thread:
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=368485
and heres the yahoo group:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/TOUROCOMNY2011/
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i interviewed on the second day that they started interviewing. i'm on-hold post interview, and other people in my batch were waitlisted...so they've definitely been doing it all along. good luck to us all!!
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i interviewed on the second day that they started interviewing. i'm on-hold post interview, and other people in my batch were waitlisted...so they've definitely been doing it all along. good luck to us all!!
Good luck to everyone that is waitlisted or on hold!! I currently work in UNDERGRAD admission and this is how it works for us (from previous posts it seems very different from what I've heard the DO programs are doing...DOs may in fact have it better):
We go through a ton applications and then try to select the people we really want first. In the general pool of applicants...the ones that look the best are also generally the students who hear from us earlier. We knew 100% we wanted to accept them. Of course this isn't always the case because towards the end of the admission season strong applications always pop up. That's why it can be very frustrating for all those applicants that are waitlisted and/or on hold. Towards the end (for us it was up to the very week we closed the application cycle) we had very strong students apply. At the undergrad level the holds are generally weaker students (whatever that even really means...cause I don't agree with how schools evaluate people). But literally this is what being on hold means: Low standardized scores and/or low GPA, and other students that are just significantly stronger in the numbers game. I don't really like this process much...but that's unfortunately how it goes...
As far as 'holds' are concerned...we usually put holds into categories like 1)Can't offer a student their first major, but they maybe can get their second choice 2)We will probably reject the student, 3)We are still waiting to see if better applicants crop up towards the end of the admission season, or 4)The student's file is not complete (still haven't submitted all their materials, letters, etc.)/waiting for midterm grades. One of the most critical components that can get a person off the 'hold' list is doing well their senior year in hs or significanly increasing their test scores.
This is our 'waitlist' policy: When someone is put on the waitlist it usually doesn't necessarily mean they are on the fence...more often they are inbetween "we can't really accept them as a strong student (strictly based on scores), but they are not the worst batch of applicants either." Sometimes waitlisters are held above people on hold, but in some case they are not. For instance, if a student on hold gets straight A's their senior year that could potentially bump that student into the "accept" category while the waitlister is still waitlisted.
So this is where the 'holds' and 'waitlisters' seem to differ at Touro:
In undergrad...if you are a hold or on the waitlist for a competitive major (yes...different programs are SIGNIFICANTLY easier to get into at particular college/university), the chances of getting accepted to that major are pretty low. But does it seem like if you are on the waitlist at Touro they will offer a spot if the class is not full or offer you a spot next year if the class is too full? If so...that's pretty sweet. We don't do that...if you're out...basically you're out. The competitive majors are always so competitive that spots are always filled. And if they are not...we only take the cream of crop on the waitlist (b/c usually an extremely small number of spots are open).
I think holds are pretty similar between many undergrad programs and Touro. For us...if you prove you can do better than what your application indicates (which unfortunately, a major part of it is assesed by your gpa or test score) than you can potentially get a spot. At Touro it also seems holds might just get in if their MCAT goes up a little. I don't know how it works...but I'm wondering if your MCAT goes up A LOT...does Touro bump you higher than someone on the waitlist? That definitely happens quite a bit in the undergrad game.
Good luck to everyone! I don't think anyone should worry much yet. There is still a long time before the season ends. This also means there is ample time to increase your mcat as well (if that's what you need to do)!
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^too bad you can't choose "undeclared" as your major in medical school. 😉
but in all seriousness, your post was very informative and hopefully will motivate those awesome people who may have been placed on the waitlist to do just a little more to strengthen their app. and maybe get in before sept. Also I am pretty certain that Touro NV's policy on waitlist is that higher MCAT = higher position so getting that number up, or your last semester GPA, or one more volunteering activity will definitely help you.
but in all seriousness, your post was very informative and hopefully will motivate those awesome people who may have been placed on the waitlist to do just a little more to strengthen their app. and maybe get in before sept. Also I am pretty certain that Touro NV's policy on waitlist is that higher MCAT = higher position so getting that number up, or your last semester GPA, or one more volunteering activity will definitely help you.
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Hey all,
Congrats to all you that have made it in! We did it!!!! So I am currently holding a seat at Nova and going to hold my seat at Touro. I love NY but I am worried. I am adventurous, but I dont know if I am okay with being adventurous about my medical school. I have a lot of concerns about being a first year class. I would like the people who have already decided that they are attending Touro NY to let me know why they decided to go. What are the positives you all see. I really need help deciding and any help would be awesome. Also, living in NY for a few years I have realized that is difficult for a young woman to be traveling around the city during the late hours of the night. Is anyone concerned about travel at night if you are studying at the library? I know they said they were considering getting a security transport for us, but what about when you get off the transport and have to be on the subway at 2am. I'm sure it would be fine, but I am concerned about my safety. Does anyone else think this is a concern? Please respond if you all can.
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Congrats to all you that have made it in! We did it!!!! So I am currently holding a seat at Nova and going to hold my seat at Touro. I love NY but I am worried. I am adventurous, but I dont know if I am okay with being adventurous about my medical school. I have a lot of concerns about being a first year class. I would like the people who have already decided that they are attending Touro NY to let me know why they decided to go. What are the positives you all see. I really need help deciding and any help would be awesome. Also, living in NY for a few years I have realized that is difficult for a young woman to be traveling around the city during the late hours of the night. Is anyone concerned about travel at night if you are studying at the library? I know they said they were considering getting a security transport for us, but what about when you get off the transport and have to be on the subway at 2am. I'm sure it would be fine, but I am concerned about my safety. Does anyone else think this is a concern? Please respond if you all can.
Sincerely,
concerned/excited/worried/hopeful it will all work out
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I heard by snail mail
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check out the previous pages of this thread...someone asked why we'd want to go to a new med school with no rep, and I answered...also check out the osteopathic forum under touro-ny class of 2011.
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I don't know if I'm crazy or just plain insane, but I'm not worried about TouroCom- NY being a new school. here are a few of my reasons
1. I wanted to stay in NY and wanted a med education in an urban environment
2. The small class size 125 with a lot of individual attention.. each student gets their own advisor that they must meet with 1x a month
3. The schools vested interest in you succeeding and getting good Comlex's scores as well as match's because if you don't the school will get a bad reputation
4. Dr. Diamond headed the rotations at NYCOm for years so he knows what he's doing
5. Incredible medical exposure to diseases, populations etc.. in NYC
6. Dr. Diamond was the former chairman of the New York board of Medicine so I'm sure he'll have the ins to getting us good exposure and helping with residencies particularly in NY where I want to practice
7. I like the idea of a fresh state of the art building no one else has used.
Those are my reasons they may not apply to others, but this is why I chose to go here. undoubtedly there will be problems no question, but I think the good will outweigh the bad especially since they seem to be really interested and receptive to class input. Good luck with whatever you end up choosing.🙂
1. I wanted to stay in NY and wanted a med education in an urban environment
2. The small class size 125 with a lot of individual attention.. each student gets their own advisor that they must meet with 1x a month
3. The schools vested interest in you succeeding and getting good Comlex's scores as well as match's because if you don't the school will get a bad reputation
4. Dr. Diamond headed the rotations at NYCOm for years so he knows what he's doing
5. Incredible medical exposure to diseases, populations etc.. in NYC
6. Dr. Diamond was the former chairman of the New York board of Medicine so I'm sure he'll have the ins to getting us good exposure and helping with residencies particularly in NY where I want to practice
7. I like the idea of a fresh state of the art building no one else has used.
Those are my reasons they may not apply to others, but this is why I chose to go here. undoubtedly there will be problems no question, but I think the good will outweigh the bad especially since they seem to be really interested and receptive to class input. Good luck with whatever you end up choosing.🙂
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congrats on your acceptance! I'm not going to touch on the pros and cons of the school, but if you search my old posts I have already talked about some schools including NSU specifically. Anyways about traveling alone at late hours I don't think any person, male or female, young or old should risk it. And it should not matter if we are students studying late at night or just someone leaving work late at night. Ideally we will all make friends that we can plan to travel with in a buddy system if it is late, and if you know that there will be no one else familiar with you on a particular night then go home early. Safety is definitely a legitimate concern but as long as you don't put yourself in unnecessary risk, i.e. stay at the library until 2 AM by yourself, then I think you will be just fine.
btw amathew I rushed to this thread when I saw that you posted but only to be disappointed that you haven't heard from the school... well hopefully you'll get some news this week. 👍 stay positive
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I second Confl on all points. But you really have to be honest to yourself--the inaugaral class has a lot to risk at any institution, and really some people are better at taking these kinds of risks, others are better suited at an already established institution. I am certain a common theme among everyone who chooses to attend this school, DMU or ATSU Mesa(all with their first classes) is an underlying excitement or at least a belief in the ability to be an important part in forming something new and potentially excellent. I love the unknown facing us, and the potential successes we could be a part of. Ive said it in a previous post, Im not a big fan of being 'another' class is a long line of 'another' classes. So i like being numero uno!!
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so my mom just calls me at work to tell me that i got waitlisted at touro...i guess a snail mail finally reached home....*sigh* i guess now i wait with the rest of us lovely waitlist folks. Does anyone know what criteria they use to get people off of waitlist? As in, who gets first priority off of waitlist? higher gpa/mcat? earlier interviewees? just wondering...🙄
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I sent an e-mail to Obed about a week ago when I found out I was on the waitlist. Have not received a response about how they rank and when they'll rank. I'll let you know if I hear anything though!
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Waitlisted. Interviewed last Wednesday (03/14) and got the email today (03/19).
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interesting... we should start a waitlist club or something... sigh. amathew i was getting concerned for u
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Okay, I'm also a young woman and I've lived in Manhattan for 7 and a half years now, both uptown at Columbia and downtown. I've walked home many a'nights from the upper east side to the village in the dead of night and have never had a problem. I've taken the subway at 4 in the morning and the worst that's happened is wait half an hour for a train. Touro is 1 block away from the subway one way and 2 the other way. There is honestly no need for a transport. Especially since it's across the street from the Apollo and within spitting distance from where Billy Clinton works. But truthfully, if you are afraid of being in the city alone at night, would you want to study in "scary Harlem" at 2 am? You can always go to Columbia, their library is 24 hours and it's half a mile away. And the only time I've ever been close to being assalted or molested was in Times Square in the middle of the day by a biker who touched as a pretext for not running me over.
So safety should not be a concern. At all.
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It was so funny when people from out of state, and sadly even out of New York City, were complaining about the area. It was so pathetic when I kept hearing that the major concerns brought up to Obed were about safety issues and having police escorts/security escorts to the subway (which is a 3 minute walk from the school), instead of talking about relevant topics such as 3rd year sites or class schedules. I'd rather have the extra funds go into things such as high-tech equipment, more computers, lockers, wireless access, free board exam courses, etc. Things that actually benefit the students and may help lower the stresses of med school, and at the same time make us more competent physicians. The city's safety is comparable to every city in the US with a similar population density. Have you ever been to Boston or Chicago at 2am (or even 11PM), and NO ONE is in sight? I think that this might be a more dangerous situation because there are no witnesses 😱 In NYC, people are literally around at all times of the day/night. In no way am I saying that Harlem is the safest area in the city, because it's definitely not, but you should not fear it any more than any other huge city in the country. I'm not bias because I don't even live in the area. I live in the middle of a wealthy residential Italian/Irish area in the southern end of Staten Island, about 2 hours from Harlem via public transportation. The environment around me is comparable to the wealthy suburbs (i.e. Schaumburg, parts of Skokie) of Chicago. Harlem is an entirely different environment, filled with diversity, and should be a great experience! OK back to studying. ( I hope those people who were afraid of the area are deterred from going to Touro, so they get people who actually want to be there) 
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It was so funny when people from out of state, and sadly even out of New York City, were complaining about the area. It was so pathetic when I kept hearing that the major concerns brought up to Obed were about safety issues and having police escorts/security escorts to the subway (which is a 3 minute walk from the school), instead of talking about relevant topics such as 3rd year sites or class schedules. I'd rather have the extra funds go into things such as high-tech equipment, more computers, lockers, wireless access, free board exam courses, etc. Things that actually benefit the students and may help lower the stresses of med school, and at the same time make us more competent physicians. The city's safety is comparable to every city in the US with a similar population density. Have you ever been to Boston or Chicago at 2am (or even 11PM), and NO ONE is in sight? I think that this might be a more dangerous situation because there are no witnesses 😱 In NYC, people are literally around at all times of the day/night. In no way am I saying that Harlem is the safest area in the city, because it's definitely not, but you should not fear it any more than any other huge city in the country. I'm not bias because I don't even live in the area. I live in the middle of a wealthy residential Italian/Irish area in the southern end of Staten Island, about 2 hours from Harlem via public transportation. The environment around me is comparable to the wealthy suburbs (i.e. Schaumburg, parts of Skokie) of Chicago. Harlem is an entirely different environment, filled with diversity, and should be a great experience! OK back to studying. ( I hope those people who were afraid of the area are deterred from going to Touro, so they get people who actually want to be there)
I agree... Those of you who have concerns about Touro, you are better off going to another school that have offered you admission and have been around longer. I would say that's your best bet it in avoiding any major issues down the road... Also, it will help us waitlistees out... think about that too....🙂, don't you wanna help us out? I mean you got 2 offers and we got none!
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rangabou I know you are just kidding when you are saying these things, but I just wanted to clarify something for others. I was telling people not to come if they really wouldn't be comfortable going to school in Harlem, and not because of the 'newness' factor, although even this could be of some concern. Good luck to everyone on the wait list.
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rangabou I know you are just kidding when you are saying these things, but I just wanted to clarify something for others. I was telling people not to come if they really wouldn't be comfortable going to school in Harlem, and not because of the 'newness' factor, although even this could be of some concern. Good luck to everyone on the wait list.
Agreed.
And though I do think that yes, it silly for some seasoned NYers or people who know the ins-and-outs of the city, to see applicants bring up security, etc., I guess I can sympathize with outsiders (esp girls) who may not know the city and worry about travelling alone at night...Heck, even old school NYers who've been out of the city for just a few years still talk about *those days* when you "didn't enter the triple digit streets" or even trendy Alphabet City in downtown...But yes, common sense is an essential in ANY big city.
During my interview (second session ever) security kept coming up...Having cameras, security guards, private vans was discussed at least 3 times...OK, I thought that was a bit excessive. Truthfully, it wasn't always the students bringing the topic up (but then again, the school probably discusses it IN RESPONSE to student concerns).
During our walking tour, they mentioned something about having evening security guards/cameras as being *mandatory* (not sure if that's school policy or whatever) so that may have caused otherwise chill people to become alerted. From what I know of the area at NIGHT from up-to-date NYers, main streets=always OK, sidestreets= some are sketchy. What else is new in the world today?
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I am going for my interview there tomorrow so I will try and find out information about the number of remaining slots open for acceptances and waitlist. Stay tuned!
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My guess is that around 50 or so have been filled since late Jan, but anyone who knows better correct me if I'm wrong. I believe that leaves 75?
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One small thing about security...every school I've been to in New York has at least one security guard, from daycare to college. The security guards at City College are downright militant in seeing everybody's IDs. The security guards at Columbia just mind the gates and watch out for scary people. It really is only the school that needs will be protected. There's going to be a lot of expensive equipment there that would be worth a lot of money on the street.
LOL! The security guards at Cuny hunter library are militant as well. I think in my 2.5 years of post-bacc there I had about a million run ins with them because I forgot my ID or was trying to sneak in some coffee
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I was accepted to TOUROCOM-NY but I accepted elsewhere and sent in my letter giving up my seat - so my seat is now open again for the taking.
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Okay so they have had 57 people send in their deposits out of 113 acceptances, not counting the "20 or so" acceptances that went out last week. So yeah, about 50% filled. The waitlist is broken into tiers - high, medium, low, and they will probably start accepting off the waitlist in June. That's the word on the street. Keep those fingers crossed
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Thank you for this information. Does anyone know the weight of the interview in their overall decision. Many schools list it from as low as 20 to greater than 50%. When I looked for it I only found this information from their website:
Interviews
Following the completion of the TOUROCOM Supplemental Application, interviews are assembled. Invitations are sent to those applicants showing the highest potential to perform well. Formal interviews are conducted from October through May. An invitation to interview does not guarantee acceptance. Except for the class of 2007, where interviews will be conducted from January 2nd thru July 1st.
I was a little confused when at first glance in the middle of the night I read that for the class of 2007 an interview guaranteed acceptance. Obviously not the case.
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I will also be giving up my spot. I have been accepted elsewhere and have another interview coming up. I sincerely wish you all the best of luck. I didn't think it could happen for me, but it did. Keep a positive outlook and remember you have until the first day of classes to be accepted.
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i know your place in the "waitlist hierarchy" is not based on WHEN you interviewed...its probably based on your numbers...
hope that helps 😳
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I interviewed March 6th
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It was so funny when people from out of state, and sadly even out of New York City, were complaining about the area. It was so pathetic when I kept hearing that the major concerns brought up to Obed were about safety issues and having police escorts/security escorts to the subway (which is a 3 minute walk from the school), instead of talking about relevant topics such as 3rd year sites or class schedules. I'd rather have the extra funds go into things such as high-tech equipment, more computers, lockers, wireless access, free board exam courses, etc. Things that actually benefit the students and may help lower the stresses of med school, and at the same time make us more competent physicians. The city's safety is comparable to every city in the US with a similar population density. Have you ever been to Boston or Chicago at 2am (or even 11PM), and NO ONE is in sight? I think that this might be a more dangerous situation because there are no witnesses 😱 In NYC, people are literally around at all times of the day/night. In no way am I saying that Harlem is the safest area in the city, because it's definitely not, but you should not fear it any more than any other huge city in the country. I'm not bias because I don't even live in the area. I live in the middle of a wealthy residential Italian/Irish area in the southern end of Staten Island, about 2 hours from Harlem via public transportation. The environment around me is comparable to the wealthy suburbs (i.e. Schaumburg, parts of Skokie) of Chicago. Harlem is an entirely different environment, filled with diversity, and should be a great experience! OK back to studying. ( I hope those people who were afraid of the area are deterred from going to Touro, so they get people who actually want to be there)
whoa...what's with all the attitude? all you all that feel that your advice is helpful when all you do is critize other people need to check yourselves. I personally have had some issues with riding the subway not only late at night but early in the morning. so just cause you all havent had any problems, doesn't mean that it doesnt happen. and for whoever quoted you and replied (rwlevin) i never said "scary harlem." get over yourself and your attitude. if you have something positive to say by all means interject, but remember I may be your classmate on day, so chill (all of you) and lets try to be helpful and NICE to each other...
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just curious why did you decide not to go? i am on the fence and could use all the advice i can get
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I've asked this before but I am trying to get an idea of a aproxiamte GPA/MCAT range for those wait-listed and those accepted to TOUROCOM. I was wondering if many of you guys wait-listed and also those accepted wouldn't mind posting your GPA/MCAT stats. If you would prefer you can PM me. Congrats to everyone who has been accepted...
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