Old Westbury, NY
Osteopathic Medical Schools | Private Non-Profit
Application Cycle: 2009-10
⭐ Overall Impressions
How did the interview impress you?
Negatively ☹️
What was the stress level of the interview?
5 out of 10
0 = Low Stress, 10 = High Stress
How you think you did?
6 out of 10
0 = Bad, 10 = Great
How do you rank this school among ALL other schools?
7 out of 10
0 = Below, 10 = Above
How do you rank this school among other schools to which you've applied?
7 out of 10
0 = Below, 10 = Above
What are your general comments?
Disapointing.
💬 Interview Process
What is one of the specific questions they asked you?
If you have a teengaer that wants a pregnancy test... are you legally bound to tell her mother?
What was the most interesting question?
So, you'll graduate with a DO degree and your father is an MD.... how will you feel about that?
How did you prepare for the interview?
Spoke to NYCOM profs, students, alumni, and read SDN
What was the most difficult question?
What is the exact difference between Doctor assisted suicide and euthanasia? (VERY uncharactoristic of NYCOM, so don't let that scare you. Just know the answer in case you get my guy)
What impressed you positively?
The clinical rotations.... some of them are at top hospitals, the online lectures, OMM lab, and anatomy lab
What impressed you negatively?
Well, I know NYCOM outside of this interview and always held it in high esteem. Unfortunately they did NOT put their best foot forward that day and it made me re-think a lot of things. Basically I didn't feel like they were trying at all to impress us and that we were supposed to impress them. Other schools made it a point to say that we were interviewing them just as much as they were interviewing us. We were stuffed into a room for hourse, the financial aide lady didn't talk to us and they "lost the hand outs" she gave them to give us so we have no idea how much the school will cost overall. Also, the asst financial aide person was there but "doesn't speak in front of people"... ok then. They "didn't know" exactly what the cirriculum is like this year for lecture based students and "didn't know" what it will be like next year, esp since it's changed 3 times in 4 years. We weren't given the offer tosit in on any classes. The students admitted to not knowing eachother and fourth year still meeting people they've never seen. It seemed that there were too many students at NYCOM because of the location rather than because of the school.
What did you wish you had known ahead of time?
That I was going to get the one interviewer that would ask me medical law questions... not the ethics behind them... just the laws themselves....
🤝 Campus and Facilities
How do you rank the facilities?
7 out of 10
0 = Bad, 10 = Great
What is your ranking of this school's location?
8 out of 10
0 = Bad, 10 = Great
What is your ranking of this area's cultural life?
9 out of 10
0 = Bad, 10 = Great
📍 Travel and Logistics
Who was the tour given by?
Student
How did the tour guide seem?
Neutral
What is your in-state status?
In state
What were your total hours spent traveling?
0-1 hour
What was your primary mode of travel?
Automobile
About how much did you spend on room, food, and travel?
< $100
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