Tejasinha Sivalingam

Review of SCNM

Amazing potential here, and some great individuals...

Amazing potential here, and some great individuals. Admissions was amazing! Natural Advantage was awesome! The students were a real blessing to any profession they might enter.
However, there seemed to be a drive to raise money that may have exceeded their capacity to responsibly recruit the type of students they really need. SCNM also seems to be set on raising board scores, unfortunately it felt that they were doing so by attempting to remove students from the pool prior to boards rather than by improving their educational game plan. The faculty were split in my experience, between those who wanted to see potential doctors succeed and those who set out to bring their personal bias into the instructional arena. As I was a transfer student I felt that SCNM's evaluation of my transcripts did not fairly and supportively delineate what I was coming in with; oddly this appeared as a confusing blend of over and under estimation.

I think SCNM could be one of the best schools in the United States, but it has a LONG way to go. However, I remain a friendly supporter of their best aspirations.