Interestingly enough I'm surprised this thread isn't enough to make many of their accepted students go elsewhere.
Think about it. If you had put down your deposit, signed a lease and paid first month's and a security deposit in NYC, have plane tickets, turned down all other acceptances, withdrawn from any waitlists, maybe even ordered books/supplies already, and then a month before school starts you see this thread, what would you do?
As much as I agree with the sentiment, I don't fault anyone, who has already done away with other options, for staying with Touro-NY. Turning around and reapplying would lose them a year along with a year of attending pay, not be a sure thing, and potentially put them even further from their goals.
Even if the admin doesn't treat the students well, my guess is that if you keep your head down, keep expectations low, and stay on top of things, you'll leave in (hopefully) 4 years with a medical degree and never have to deal with them again.
Now hopefully future applicants take note, and it causes the school to change the way it's administration treats its students. Even so there will always be plenty of people that want to go to Touro-NY just to be in NYC, and they'll explain away threads like this.
I'm wondering if administration is reading these forums and put pressure on people posting here (not too hard for them to figure out who OP is based on what she said).
This is very likely the case. At my Touro-NY interview some years ago, and at multiple others for that matter, they made it very obvious that they monitor and read SDN. A couple deans mentioned it by name, and said something along the lines of "remember we're watching it too".
On another note, it's absolutely ridiculous that a school would make people defer just because they're immunization forms weren't competed before they even set foot in campus. Again, I think back to my school that is relatively authoritarian, and I know people were given threats, deadlines, nasty emails, and still started school without issue. As long as immunizations were in by early 2nd year, everything was fine. Now sure, no one should purposefully delay those forms past a deadline, but to just stop a student from starting for a bureaucratic reason that isn't really even necessary until 3rd year is ridiculous.
