Comments from the Class of 2015

College	Strengths	Liked Best
Barnard College	Price	Classmates
	A lot of hands-on experience, opportunities to practice skills like blood draws, IVs, surgical skills, procedures.	Clinical rotations in geriatric psychiatry, Global Health Elective, Brooklyn Free Clinic
Binghamton University	Self-monitored learning	Camaraderie of student body
	Great clinical experience, helpful faculty	Had the opportunity for a lot of hands-on experience on clinical rotations
	Diverse pathology, hands on experience	Prepared you for dealing with difficult encounters
Boston College	Well organized. Thorough. Excellent clinical experience. Nice staff. Many interesting cases as MS3/MS4.	MS3/MS4 - great clinical experience. I felt it was a major edge to my education.
	Great people	Friends
Brandeis University	Clinical experience during 3rd year rotations and having peers who were willing to cooperate and work together and share and be supportive.	My peers. I literally had the greatest class ever. Way to go, office of admissions.
CUNY Brooklyn College	Comprehensive and hands on learning of medicine	A lot of opportunities to learn
City College of New York	Faculty really cared about making sure we learned.	Working with patients and being actively involved in their care.
	Hands-on experience	Teaching rounds
	Great Clinical training	Great clinical exposures
	The clinical experience was amazing given the patient population. Also a lot of hands on experience.	Preceptors were excellent and left a lasting impression and were role models for how one should carry themselves.
	Clinical experience	Staff support
CUNY Queens College	Great hands on clinical exposure, students are able to make significant contributions to patient care and develop all required technical skills, strong focused on patient centered care	The strong sense of community
	Clinicals	4th year
	clinical training and numerous sites	All the training sites and variety of pathology
	clinical experience	Faculty are very helpful
	Hands on learning that I felt friends at other medical schools did not get	The people were always friendly and down to earth and the atmosphere always made me feel useful and needed even as a student
	Hands on experience	Students
	Pathology, unparalleled experience	Learning a lot and being around great people
	Hands on experience	Diversity, had an opportunity to see a lot
Columbia University	Clinical Experience	MS4
	Teaching me all aspects of healthcare and how to be self-sufficient, able to handle nursing and tech duties too	How much hands on time I got as a student, especially with phlebotomy and blood draws. I'm the most comfortable in those at my residency program
Cornell University	Clinical training was great	Patient care, emergency medicine and cardiology rotations, MS3 rotations
	Clinical experiences	It was in NYC
	Able to have great hands on training, taking care of patients like they were my own	people, the professors, the experience
	Independence, preparation for intern year	The lifelong friends that I made in med school
	Autonomy in the clinical years	classmates
	Location in NYC	The Student Center and Dormitory had many activities
	Clinical experience. Great EM department.	Friendships I made. Becoming a doctor.
Georgetown University	Faculty	Faculty
Harvard	Clinical exposure/experience	Diversity of clinical exposure and working with humble and knowledgeable attendings
Haverford College	Clinical responsibilities, diverse patient and student populations	Friends I made
Howard university	Clinical training	Wide exposure to the different specialties
Johns Hopkins University	Clinical experience	The emergency room
	Fellow students were incredibly welcoming and helping, warm sense of comraderies. clinical experience was unparalleled	Clinical experience. administration was relatively responsive to change
Marist College	Clinical experience, relationships with other students, supportive urology faculty	Relationships with other students
New York University	Learning how to learn things quickly	Commuting to different sites
	Seeing complex cases, good attendings who loved to teach	My fellow classmates were genuine, wholesome, kind people
	Hands on experience, diversity of cases not usually seen elsewhere, strong infectious disease/trauma problems	Fellow classmates and the clinical experiences
	Lots to do during clinical years	Rotations
	Basic science courses and multiple sites for clinical electives	Student center activities held every week
Northwestern University	Hands-on activities, extensive inpatient workups	Friendly attendings/residents, ability to care for patients in need
SUNY College of Medicine	Clinical experiences	My 3rd year and 4th year Sub-I rotations
SUNY Downstate	The teachers, the students, the clinical experience for the most part	Friends
SUNY New Paltz	Great pathology in the clinical years	My classmates
SUNY Stony Brook	Great clinical experience	working in an urban environment and great exposure
UC Irvine	Value, diversity of educational opportunities, knowledge of faculty, student camaraderie	Dedicated faculty and staff committed to our student body
University of Chicago	Clinical experience	Being in NYC
UCLA	Working with underserved, diverse patient population, complex or rare pathologies	Living in Brooklyn
University of Delaware	Unparalleled clinical training and experiences that most of my new co-residents haven't experienced even a fraction of	Crazy clinical experiences. Amazing, diverse, group of friends. Can't explain how much I loved my friends from medical school.
University of Michigan	Autonomy on the wards	Learning in a collegial environment
	Clinical experience	4th year
	Clinical experience	The people I met
University of Pennsylvania	Clinical years were excellent	The people
	It was a medical school and I enjoyed living in Brooklyn. Lots of student activities.	I got to do a lot as a 3rd and 4th year medical student. I'm sure the new curriculum has made the first 2 years more prosperity and less competitive.
	Hands-on clinical experience	Interventional Radiology Elective
Yale University	Patient interaction and Real Clinical Experience	The interactions with my classmates and physicians
Yeshiva University	Tuition, clinical experience	Going through third year
	The clinical years	The patients
	Interesting patient population	Interesting patient population
	Good clinical experience	Sense of community among medical students
	Diversity of faculty and students. Educational experiences at different hospitals	The ability to study in ways that worked for me while having access to PPTs and audio files and handouts
	Hands on training	The other students