The school environment and surrroundings are not as bad as people say they are. Touro-CA is located where an old navy base used to be. I guess it's pretty "scary" because there are some abandoned warehouses, but I don't see what's wrong with those. If anything, there is a rich history and historical landmarks for people to apperciate. Touro University located in Mare Island will be adding a village center for students and the vallejo community to seek medical care, a state-of-the-art and very expensive cancer center with the first combined proton and carbon cancer beam in the States, a hotel for the new medical center, and some other awesome facilities. Plus, the school is near the Pacific Ocean, so it feels pretty breezy. Oh yeah, I heard Touro Univeristy used to be located in San Francisco, but the area limited its ability to expand and grow so that's why they moved it to Mare Island. I think Mare Island is a peaceful and tranquil place to study medicine for the first two years, and then one could move after that if one chose to do so. The bad thing about the school is it's small and pretty pricey with $35,000/year in tuition; however, that's not bad compared to other high priced osteopathic medical schools. The plus side to that is that it's by San Fran, which is an amazing place to visit and enjoy the scenary. Last but not least, there are plenty of research of oppornunities if one chooses to follow that route, which is seldom for an osteopathic school since most osteopathic schools are primary-care based, and it has one of the highest matching results for medical schools (this means most students get their choices of hospitals/medical centers/clinics, and notice I didn't just say osteopathic medical schools to be PC).
, just be yourself, you'll do fine.
