New york chiropractic college Reviews

I didn't attend NYCC, I work with them as a vendor. I want to say how impressed I was with their leadership team in our kickoff meeting back in November. It was so evident how dedicated they are to the long term sustainability of the school and the success of their students. Afterwards, two students took us on a tour of the campus. They were super engaged and I could tell they had a lot of passion for the profession and the college. It's awesome to see a leading institution like this right in my own backyard.

If you are considering receiving your chiropractic education here I would highly recommend ANY other school. Ever since they got a new president, Dr. Mestan, the school has been a complete mess. I can speak to this because I attended through the transition from one president to another. There are TOO many complaints to simply put into a single review so I will summarize a few main ones.

1) They recruited a bunch of students and dually enrolled them in an acupuncture program. There were students that only wanted to do the acupuncture program but the school convinced them to dual enroll in both the acupuncture and chiropractic program because they could then be "doctors". After coercing a bunch of students to do both programs they terminated the acupuncture program after the students were already enrolled in the chiropractic one and paid over $30,000 so they had no option but to finish the chiropractic program or be out all that money.

2) The program has a clinical aspect to it where you work as a student intern. One of the main locations where you do so is the Seneca Falls Health Center. The main clinical employed by the school is blatantly racist. All the other professors of the school openly discuss it, all the students are aware of it and still nothing is done about it. If you are a minority your clinical experience will be completely ruined and all your complaints are disregarded. I have spoken to students as far back as 2003 and they said the problem even existed then and it was just accepted.

3) Most recently, this is a mind blowing one. The current graduating class has had some understandable disruptions in their education due to Covid-19. What they were not expecting though is that the school withdrew as a testing site from their part IV examination with out informing the students. The withdrawal was understandable due to the public health concern BUT the school never contacted their students saying they were doing so therefore they didn't have an opportunity to change their testing location. This resulted in this entire upcoming graduating class not being able to take their board examination until min November at the earliest. This means students are going to go a minimum of 6 months post graduation with out being able to obtain a license. This is only true for NYCC students all other chiropractic school graduates will be able to get licensed following their graduation. The best part is when students brought this concern to their president Dr. Mestan he basically told them its "their problem" instead of assisting in working with their board.

As i stated even with this large description this is only a fraction of my complaints look else where for your education, it is sad that so many great professors and decent opportunities are polluted by a terrible administration.

Save yourself from a dying profession and avoid chiropractic altogether, not just this school.

What profession saddles you with crippling lifelong debt, provides a negligible return on investment, garners no respect from the medical community, and even struggles to agree on its own identity? Chiropractic.

If you doubt this profession's stability, simply read all the other reviews (here and elsewhere). Many of these positive reviews aren't even from students or chiropractors.

DEBT: Without assistance, you are guaranteed to graduate with AT LEAST $160k of debt. Many students will excitedly begin their careers with $200k+ of debt, a <4 years doctorate degree, and dreams of a financially successful life. This is certainly more a dream than reality. Even the American Chiropractic Association itself reported that the current average salary of an associate, independent of age or experience, is roughly $65,000. Your other career option of owning your own practice will require at least 5+ years to even become profitable, and many more (if you survive) to even get "established". During this time, you ll barely chip away at the accrued interest of those aforementioned loans.

ETHICS: Additionally, you ll be devoting all your time outside the office to shameful marketing tactics: school screenings, health fairs, holiday specials, presentations, and office drop-ins. As an associate, I felt constantly pressured to recommend bloated treatment plans, cut back my time with patients, and emphasize prepay tactics. Wellness care is pushed on everyone, but in reality most patients would benefit more from a monthly massage or personal training appointment. Half (if not more) of the profession practices in ethically grey areas - if not outright malpractice: "Chiro mills" or personal injury practices, for example. Conventions are saturated with chiro's quite literally bragging about their "daily numbers", instead of how many patients they successfully treat. Chiropractic "success" is based on sales.

"SCIENCE": Chiropractic was founded on the hypothesis that spinal misalignments are the root of all disease: Look well to the spine for the causes of disease . Even not-so-modern science debunks this philosophy, and to NYCC s credit, they have mostly abandoned the "subluxations cause all disease" concept. However, many schools still teach some variation of this idea, which has resulted in a heavily polarized profession and lots of deserved mistrust from the rest of the medical community. I once had a patient describe how her last chiropractor told her he cured cancer with a series of adjustments. Chiropractic lacks consistency: one chiro may instruct you to avoid vaccines while another down the street tries to sell you a treatment plan on a PEMF device.

EDUCATION: Admission requirements are a joke for a profession always hoping to be taken seriously by the rest of the medical community. No standardized testing or GPA requirements. You literally don't even need a completed undergraduate degree. As for academic rigor, I specifically recall a common phrase being repeated among students when I was in school: C s and D s make DC s . A DC degree is the fastest way to a doctorate (3.75 years); a true medical degree is one of the longest paths to a doctorate (4 years + 3-5 years residency). Chiropractic colleges love to compare the two like they are academically or professionally equivalent.

REPETITIVE: You will dream about diagnosing a variety of pathologies and conditions but in reality 90% of your patients will be mechanical joint pains due to inactivity and/or poor lifestyle choices.

FUTURE: The few accurate aspects of manual manipulation are being adopted by other real medical professions such as PT s and Ortho's, so the future for chiropractors is bleak. Especially as manipulation classes continue to be integrated into PT and orthopaedic programs. Reimbursement rates are decreasing every year as insurance companies crack down on the profession due to ethically questionable practices.

Avoid chiropractic.

Super campus that provides the tranquility and focus students need to be successful in this intense program. Teachers are approachable and provide tremendous support to contribute towards the success of the students. Cater well to students who are Canadian.

Please read: Truly a solid education, great professors & experience. HOWEVER speaking on behalf of myself (a graduate) and other peers in my class I would STRONGLY recommend not perusing chiropractic college. You will end up with crippling student loan debt that you will forever live with and never pay off. You will have tremendous difficulty finding a job, you will either not get paid enough to survive or end up suffering while practicing along with a DC that practices bizarrely or unethically (although this is not prompted by the college). Owning a business is extremely difficult with chiros on every corner and declining reimbursement rates nationwide. On top of the already difficult circumstances noted above you will need to navigate finding affordable health insurance for yourself and family which is nearly impossible considering the debt to low income ratio you will have. I thankfully after 5 years post grad and a lot of tears, fear, and praying I found an unrelated chiropractic career that I love. I feel blessed considering the potential circumstances. However I will be working until the day I die likely being unable to ever retire after having attended this school. I've sometimes hoped that I don't make it to my "25 year" IBR debt forgiveness, because then I will be hit with a IRS tax bill so large and it will reawaken this nightmare all over again and anything I've gained I will likely lose because of it (as if I'm not reminded monthly already). Whats even more concerning is what the beginning of my last sentence suggested. This is the reality. There are people who are fortunately enough to have thriving profitable businesses in chiropractic but they are far and few as I've spoken with most of my peers who are in the same boat as me rather than the latter half. I pray collegiate institutions are someday scrutinized and possibly even held accountable for offering any degrees that have a poor return on investment for the general population of graduates. This includes all colleges. With all that said and considered, if you are going to pursue post grad in chiropractic this truly is the only one you should attend and it is the best out there and has a great education. Just consider all the other factors and make the decision logically as I wish I had followed my gut.

A very large campus that appears to be well kept and maintained