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+1Just got the confirmation email
+1Just got the confirmation email
+1. Is it clipped if we got the bridge email though?
Wdym?+1. Is it clipped if we got the bridge email though?
The email they sent out a week ago to some people about the Masters linkage program to start at nyit the following yr. I’m wondering if we got that it means we aren’t rlly being considered when it comes to being taken off the WLWdym?
TripleT in one of the posts above mentioned that people who received that email have gotten off the WL in the past. If you accept the offer then I think you are taken off the WL, if not then you stay on.The email they sent out a week ago to some people about the Masters linkage program to start at nyit the following yr. I’m wondering if we got that it means we aren’t rlly being considered when it comes to being taken off the WL
You are able to stay on the waitlist even after you are accepted into the bridge program: "If you elect to apply and accept an offer for the M.S. in Simulation Bridge Program, you will still be permitted to maintain your waitlist status for the NYITCOM Class of 2028 until the start of classes."TripleT in one of the posts above mentioned that people who received that email have gotten off the WL in the past. If you accept the offer then I think you are taken off the WL, if not then you stay on.
Congrats!Just got off the waitlist!
Yea I was just wondering the likelihood of actually getting off. Congrats on getting off!You are able to stay on the waitlist even after you are accepted into the bridge program: "If you elect to apply and accept an offer for the M.S. in Simulation Bridge Program, you will still be permitted to maintain your waitlist status for the NYITCOM Class of 2028 until the start of classes."
Congrats! When did you get the email? Do you mind sharing when you interviewed and stats?Just got off the waitlist!
Also did you get the bridge program email?Just got off the waitlist!
I did get the bridge program email and I had submitted an application for it last week.Also did you get the bridge program email?
I wonder if applying to the bridge program shows you’re committed and they’ll be more likely to accept you? But this gave me a lot of hope! Hope to join you soonI did get the bridge program email and I had submitted an application for it last week.
I interviewed early March
OOS with no ties to NY, though it was my first choice
MCAT: 501
GPA: 3.67
sGPA: 3.4
Full time research for 3 years, one published paper and two more incoming
Strong volunteer hours and healthcare experiences
What does it mean if you never got any bridge program emails though?I wonder if applying to the bridge program shows you’re committed and they’ll be more likely to accept you? But this gave me a lot of hope! Hope to join you soon
I would assume you’re higher on the WL or your stats are good enough to be accepted. Based on previous threads the people who didn’t get the bridge email got off the WL so I was discouraged when I got the bridge emailWhat does it mean if you never got any bridge program emails though?
Looking back at previous threads (for AR) it doesn't look like Jonesboro has a bridge program? (at least I didn't see anyone comment about it)is the bridge program email only for the NY campus? just wondering because I'm WL at the AR campus
Congrats! Do you mind sharing stats and when you interviewed?I got off the WL, too!!! I am soooo excited! Do not lose hope!!!
super congrats!!!!I got off the WL, too!!! I am soooo excited! Do not lose hope!!!
I sent a letter of interest in early April and got a response that it was added to my file.Did those of you who got off the WL send in LOInterest/LOIntents?
How long did they give you to choose?I sent a letter of interest in early April and got a response that it was added to my file.
It probably also helped that I was moving to Long Island regardless of if I got off the waitlist or not because of family obligations, so I didn't technically have a historic connection to NY/LI but I was committed to the location.
I got the email on Friday and they gave me until today to put down the deposit.How long did they give you to choose?
Interesting, thanks!I got the email on Friday and they gave me until today to put down the deposit.
Just got off the waitlist!
Did you guys get invited to the bridge program? If so, did you apply?I got off the WL, too!!! I am soooo excited! Do not lose hope!!!
I got invited to the bridge program and I applied for it three weeks ago I think.Did you guys get invited to the bridge program? If so, did you apply?
Thanks
I did not apply to the bridge program, but I received the email. My MCAT is lower than their average.Did you guys get invited to the bridge program? If so, did you apply?
Thanks
I checked last years thread and it looks like it took almost a month for the second wave of As to come out after the first one was released.Hoping we hear some good news in the coming days!
Do you have any comments on the infamous NYIT attrition rate?Graduated last week. Let me know if anyone has any questions and wants unfettered answers and opinions. Here are the 3rd year rotation sites that were available for my year since I know that question comes up.
Hello.Graduated last week. Let me know if anyone has any questions and wants unfettered answers and opinions. Here are the 3rd year rotation sites that were available for my year since I know that question comes up.
Disclaimer that things might have changed since I was a first year and my first year was during lockdown so it would already be very different.Do you have any comments on the infamous NYIT attrition rate?
1. I enjoyed it, but most of my preclinical was during lockdown so I never got to socialize much with my class outside of those in my lab group. The school has all the pitfalls of all DO schools, such as high tuition, high class size, limited academic hospital affiliations, limited research opportunities, and the DO bias from residencies, but it also has a lot of pluses that many DO schools lack, such as a robust alumni network (at least on Long Island and in NYC), many local community hospitals (I did a rotation with a student from a newish DO school in the south that was rotating at a random community hospital on Long Island because "it was what was available to him", which is absolutely insane and inexcusable), the match list is nice if you want to do residency in the Tri-State area, and while research opportunities are limited compared to an MD school, they're pretty good for a DO school. If I could change my school to another DO school, I wouldn't. I've heard PCOM is really nice, but outside of maybe that I personally wouldn't pick any other DO in the northeast over NYITCOM, and I wouldn't want to go to a school outside the northeast. If you are asking between NYITCOM and MD, pick the MD. While the bias is softening, if you are interested in a competitive specialty or going to a top program within a non-competitive specialty, you are at such a pronounced disadvantage compared to MDs. It definitely hurt hearing from my MD friends who were getting interviews at places that were ghosting me even though my step 2 score was like 20 points higher.Hello.
Please feel free to answer what you want:
1. How would you describe your time there? If you were to go back would you change your school?
2. Thank you for the rotations site pdf that you shared. looking at it, it seems that the sites listed are not what is listed on the website. Does that mean that the list on the website is not accurate/updated or do sites change year by year? for reference this is what I mean : Clinical Education Institutions
3. I have read that it is a bit difficult to have honors in your rotations because they split it up in a way that is a bit complicated. Is that true?
4. Were you always neck deep in studies? Were you able to breathe from time to time?
5. Did you feel that the school prepared you well for your boards?
6. What did you absolutely hate/love about the school?
7. Were the faculty and staff supportive?
TIA
2. The pdf is what was available to us when we were making our schedules which was over a year ago. It might have changed since then. They were definitely sending out emails to us during fourth year about new clinical sites so they might have added those. I can tell you that I wasn't allowed to sign up to do clerkships at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, which is the biggest hospital I see on that list. Something I commented about on another post a while back was about NYU LI (previously known as Winthrop). They used to be a big hospital for NYITCOM but then NYU bought them out and opened up a medical school there. But they only have like 20 students per year and they really want to create the image that they are a big academic hospital. Part of that image is having a lot of medical students rotating there. During 4th year you're allowed to apply to non-NYITCOM affiliated hospitals to do your rotations, NYU LI only accepted applications from USMDs and NYITCOM, meaning no foreign students and no other DOs, and since USMDs tend to only do away rotations at the already established "big" academic hospitals, there aren't that many USMDs that apply there, so the hospital is essentially a NYITCOM hospital but only for 4th year, not 3rd. Also, a large amount of their attendings are from NYITCOM, speaking about that robust alumni network in the area from my last post.Hello.
Please feel free to answer what you want:
1. How would you describe your time there? If you were to go back would you change your school?
2. Thank you for the rotations site pdf that you shared. looking at it, it seems that the sites listed are not what is listed on the website. Does that mean that the list on the website is not accurate/updated or do sites change year by year? for reference this is what I mean : Clinical Education Institutions
3. I have read that it is a bit difficult to have honors in your rotations because they split it up in a way that is a bit complicated. Is that true?
4. Were you always neck deep in studies? Were you able to breathe from time to time?
5. Did you feel that the school prepared you well for your boards?
6. What did you absolutely hate/love about the school?
7. Were the faculty and staff supportive?
TIA
4. During preclinical I studied a lot, probably much more than I needed to if I were only trying to get a 70 and pass. I would say it was like ~8 hours a day, 7 days a week. It helped that it was during lockdown, so I wasn't really missing much outside. Preclinical is rough no matter where you do medical school. My advice would be to treat it like it is a full-time job. In another post, I mentioned that a reason people fail is because they don't know how to study. If you're the person who did his/her high school homework on the bus to school, studied for the first time during your lunch period right before the exam, and then went to college and managed to get by, by studying only the night before the exam, you are going to get destroyed by these exams. As soon as one exam is done, I would take the rest of the day off, and then the next day I would immediately start studying for the next exam in a couple of weeks time. With that said you can definitely breathe. I pretty much never studied after the sun went down. Again, I wasn't aiming for a 70 on the exams, which you shouldn't either because...Hello.
Please feel free to answer what you want:
1. How would you describe your time there? If you were to go back would you change your school?
2. Thank you for the rotations site pdf that you shared. looking at it, it seems that the sites listed are not what is listed on the website. Does that mean that the list on the website is not accurate/updated or do sites change year by year? for reference this is what I mean : Clinical Education Institutions
3. I have read that it is a bit difficult to have honors in your rotations because they split it up in a way that is a bit complicated. Is that true?
4. Were you always neck deep in studies? Were you able to breathe from time to time?
5. Did you feel that the school prepared you well for your boards?
6. What did you absolutely hate/love about the school?
7. Were the faculty and staff supportive?
TIA
6. Love the professors, and the other students, the guys who run the mannequin simulation and skills lab are great. I never ran into anyone "toxic". The campus is nice, but don't base any decisions on that. They take OMM very seriously here. I saw this as a plus because while people I know at other DO schools were stressing out about the OMM on levels 1 and 2, it felt like a cakewalk to me since NYITCOM had drilled it into my head so many times. I like the fully online lectures due to covid that I think they are still continuing, but I can see why this might be a negative for some. As I mentioned earlier, there are a lot of community hospitals nearby affiliated with NYITCOM. If I were that student who had to fly across the country and find living arrangements just for a 1-month rotation at a random community hospital, I would be beyond pissed. And I hear this is becoming somewhat of a norm at new DO schools, which is unfortunate. Things I hate: the DO bias, lack of big academic hospitals for 3rd-year clerkships and 4th-year electives, the school's health insurance and policies regarding it. In my first year, the health insurance was around ~$4500, by my 4th year it was around ~$7500. Many medical students go on Medicaid during medical school since they have no income. The school originally wouldn't let students do this during 3rd and 4th years since if you're doing a rotation out of New York State you wouldn't be covered or something, eventually my class signed a petition and they let students sign a waiver, but then we had to go through the whole process again the next year and the school made a big stink about it, but eventually yielded.Hello.
Please feel free to answer what you want:
1. How would you describe your time there? If you were to go back would you change your school?
2. Thank you for the rotations site pdf that you shared. looking at it, it seems that the sites listed are not what is listed on the website. Does that mean that the list on the website is not accurate/updated or do sites change year by year? for reference this is what I mean : Clinical Education Institutions
3. I have read that it is a bit difficult to have honors in your rotations because they split it up in a way that is a bit complicated. Is that true?
4. Were you always neck deep in studies? Were you able to breathe from time to time?
5. Did you feel that the school prepared you well for your boards?
6. What did you absolutely hate/love about the school?
7. Were the faculty and staff supportive?
TIA
6. Love the professors, and the other students, the guys who run the mannequin simulation and skills lab are great. I never ran into anyone "toxic". The campus is nice, but don't base any decisions on that. They take OMM very seriously here. I saw this as a plus because while people I know at other DO schools were stressing out about the OMM on levels 1 and 2, it felt like a cakewalk to me since NYITCOM had drilled it into my head so many times. I like the fully online lectures due to covid that I think they are still continuing, but I can see why this might be a negative for some. As I mentioned earlier, there are a lot of community hospitals nearby affiliated with NYITCOM. If I were that student who had to fly across the country and find living arrangements just for a 1-month rotation at a random community hospital, I would be beyond pissed. And I hear this is becoming somewhat of a norm at new DO schools, which is unfortunate. Things I hate: the DO bias, lack of big academic hospitals for 3rd-year clerkships and 4th-year electives, the school's health insurance and policies regarding it. In my first year, the health insurance was around ~$4500, by my 4th year it was around ~$7500. Many medical students go on Medicaid during medical school since they have no income. The school originally wouldn't let students do this during 3rd and 4th years since if you're doing a rotation out of New York State you wouldn't be covered or something, eventually my class signed a petition and they let students sign a waiver, but then we had to go through the whole process again the next year and the school made a big stink about it, but eventually yielded.
7. Yes very much so. There were maybe 1-2 PhD's that taught preclinical that I didn't like but everyone else was fantastic. Especially the DOs that teach you OMM and how to take a history and do a physical. If you go here you'll meet Dr. Heller and you'll know what I'm talking about. Professors have regular office hours, and answer their emails regularly, some professors will also offer a live Q&A session prior to an exam with their lectures on it.
To summarize everything, NYITCOM has negatives that all DO schools share but has a lot of positives that many DO schools lack. I, personally, would pick it over any DO school in the northeast, but I'd be willing to hear out PCOM and maybe LECOM (main campus). If you have an MD acceptance, I would take it over NYITCOM unless there are staggering cost differences (like >200k), you really want to specialize in OMM, or you are 100% committed to doing something like rural family medicine and NYITCOM is cheaper or closer to family (i.e. doing a non-competitive specialty and matching at community (non-competitive) program)
+1 😭Another email about the bridge program deadline being extended :/ hope is dwindling…
They sent you an email about the bridge program deadline and didn’t even invite you to apply to the bridge program? Strange.I didn’t even get an initial invite for the bridge program 😭
Oh I think they send out the bridge program invite to people with lower stats? We aren’t at a disadvantage if we didn’t receive the invite from what I gather, probably the opposite tbh.No sorry I’m saying I never got an invite to the bridge program
I wonder what their criteria is for sending out the invite for bridge