The psycho analysis with respect to the psychology books i have in my room i can clearly state,, when a person bashes the school at appox minimum numbers of posts or even more numbers of post. it can be stated

this person

a) was not admitted to AUA due to poor marks
b) is a officail of another university who is upset of there school loosing people to AUA, i heard from 4 of my friends who always wanted to go to MUA they are going to AUA now.
c) they can be called a troll but a troll sticks around till they get banned.
d) they failed out of AUA
E) A 0r B

Answer): E

I think that Nicky's accounts so far have been pretty accurate. If you're a prospective student, ignore the trolls that plague this forum from time to time.

You need neither a CT scanner nor an MRI machine for your basic sciences, but you do need to know how to interpret the results from both - and those are taught in the Anatomy course.

The syllabi are pretty clear for each course. DPS/ICM is a bit disorganized, but they hired a new professor for that and he's a great clinician. I had him for anatomy.

Umm no professor ever pressured me into joining a marathon drinking session. That's just garbage. I don't know how people even come up with that.

yeah im too lazy to respond to the rest of it

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Thank you nicSTX, for finding the time in your busy life to post a clear, honest, comprehensive reply. It's posts like these that are very helpful to those of us coming behind you, trying to make informed decisions.

haha - atleast you guys don't think i'm a troll

woot!

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Troll!

I am currently a student here and regret ever coming here but since this is my last semester I wanted to share my experience here at this school.

• Beware of housing and sexism (if you're a female) issues you WILL face when attending AUA.

There are always issues. I know one girl who got the BEST, imho, university housing there was and she made the administrator take her to sandhaven to make sure. Guess where she ended up?

“Third and fourth semester students may request to stay in University Housing. Any University Housing available once first semester students have been housed will be offered to the earliest next semester students on a first-come, first-served basis.”

• This information is from the housing page on the AUA website. The Third and Fourth semester students CAN NOT get housing due to University Housing being available to first and second semester students. AUA is accepting overwhelming amount of incoming students that the facility can not hold the students that are attending now. BEWARE of this! Off campus housing is VERY DANGEROUS

Absolutely untrue. Why? Because current students lock in their housing 1 month before the end of the semester with a contract before incoming students are placed. IF you attended the school, you would already know that because its tempting to just renew your contract so you didn't have to move your stuff out when you leave for break.

What do you like least about your school:

• There is NO equipment (CT, Ultrasound, etc), and there is 1 beef jerky looking cadaver per roughly 60 students. The cadavers are dried and some have mold.

Are you even a med school student? Even my friends in the US that has those equipment aren't allowed to even use them. During basic sciences, we don't know enough to understand their outputs let alone time to learn how to use the equipment. 1:60? The MOST I've seen is this semester and its 1:30. And ALL cadavers get dried and moldy by the end of the semester, do you know of any muscles that doesn't do that? (Stuffed animals but they're plastic after the embalming process.)

• Financial aid, but it gets better and better each semester from what other students tell me.

From what other students tell you? Nuff said.

• lack of organization- no syllabus, thus stating no understanding of what should usually be preread. DPS is a total waste of time how it is set up with the exception of utilizing students as dummies for each other. i feel it is a class just to make credit in lieu of an actual teaching environment which the lectures are not!

Lack of syllabus, I think you pulled this from a post about Dr.S in Histology, that same person complained about no Powerpoint for his lecture. That person didn't listen to the prof saying that all you need to do is 1 chapter every 3 days. The then proceeded to copy the table of contents with a date written on every 3 days. The syllabus didn't have what to read. Also we also did worse when he switched to powerpoints.

• The administration (Very much true)

Happens everywhere. Give me a list of a school that doesn't have that problem. If you even bring up US schools, I can give you a list of those that has problems.

• There is so much unethical behavior of staff and administration. They treat us like second class citizens, and any time a concern is raised, they respond by saying, "this isn't the US. If you don't like it go home!"(Very true)

No one here says that, but to be sure, could you give us a name? There are also people who want to be spoon fed too.

• The faculty, the lack of the school to follow policies. The lies about how good the school is; to cover the truth! The student officers telling people not to tell the truth The "Special Grading" policies, cheating faculty. (very true)

Special grading policies... unless you don't attend class at the beginning of the semester, they tell you what you need to do. 70 - C, 80 - B, 90 - A. Unfortunately, we (class average) doesn't get that high so the 70 drops a bit.

Please share any other thoughts you may have about your school.

• Your professors will pressure you into joining them for marathon drinking sessions. You will not be prepared to be anything in the future.

Umm... yeah, if they did this, you must wanted to drink with them. They don't have to force anyone to drink because there are over 500+ students. Do you think they can drink that much?

• I feel this school has great potential if they began to get more organized there would be less frustration via students and less misunderstandings. I feel all the lecturers other than DPS are amazing. I never went to class and actually came out with having some form of grasp on the material because a lecturer.

You're in fourth and you're complaining about DPS? You DEFINATELY aren't a student here. I studied 2 hours before the exam and I passed. Our practical was doing BP, count HR, Respiration, and assess the patient. Most of your points were Vitals that everyone should know. Wait, there was on presentation that people all scored low on... that's right, some people thought a 5 minute presentation meant 5 minutes after the initial limit.

• The classes are great because I am interested in what I am learning. Everything else is horrible. To be successful here you have to learn to relax and have NO expectations of people.

Again, you are not a student anywhere. A med school student relaxing? Either you're really smart to never study and ace all of the exams. (In which case you wouldn't complain about the school.) or ...

• I don’t appreciate the greed of the administration: One example: paying $400Ec/$120us to park in mud, when there’s no parking laws on the entire island. Many more examples!

Well, its $30 US buddy and you always can just park on the side of the parking lot. You're right, there is no parking laws on the island, that's why you drive around for hours downtown in hopes to get within a few blocks of where you want to go. We pay some money to have a guard keep others out so we do have space on campus. (Lets see you work for that much, 60 permits x 30 = 180 / 80 days/sem = less than $30 a day to pay the guy.)

Although it is blatantly obvious to any students already on campus, I replied because there are many new incoming students who are nervious and probably scared by anything that pops up. I hope this helps someone.

well said....

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I am very busy preparing for final, that damn biochem, but I must voice over this because I am here, a student, and I wish I was invited for one of those drinking to the extreme. Say what??????

That's why we are students here and attending and not pretending. We are aware of most of the details,and when someone brings a lie to this joint, we just laugh at it and swing it in the trash.

I am glad that you guys took the time to answer to that post, which is loaded with lies and what never took place around here.

I was about to do the same, but you, guys, have done the right thing, and I don't even have to comment that much about the whole.

We, all of us attending AUA, are well aware that students in 4th don't have DPS, but they do have ICM, the cadavers at the lab are well maintained, and if one is toast...the rippers, I gave them this name, bring the white truck and take it away to the recycling factory

We know well, and quite sure, all of us who are down with the drinking and the bar rolling pattern, that our profs do not frequent the same places we go, and when you meet them in one of those places, they are either at a social event or are in group with a guest teacher or invited out for dinner with faculty members. To say that they often invited us to roll glasses with them is nothing but a basket of lies.

I don't even have to keep on repeating what is posted above, because they are not true and don't hold any merit. I don't know about admin and cheating stuff because I am not part of the crowd that complains and divulges it all out when they can't make the grades. If I failed a class, which has happened before, all that I have to do is look at what I did wrong and go back to the point of making the necessary corrrections.

I swear, I am not a momma's boy, but I was raised by a mom who showed me how to complain and raise my voice when something is not right. Therefore, if AUA was not good on the scale, I would have been one of the first mouths, wider than ever, to speak about what stinks and is stinking the place.

I will not say that all is perfect here, and there is no such perfection as long there is a night and a day, which are not so identical.
If folks here cheat, let it be so. I will just take my way with my Cs and its brothers and sisters Fs and Ds to the place where I know those cheaters will need more of a brain than a mouth in order to serve their patients faithfully. What about passing the board? Can't cheat there! Can they?

Fellows, you already found out that person is maybe one of those kicked outs, and is trying to bring the shadows of his or her past on us. By the way, if I am no longer a student at AUA, for whatever reason, I will not even have the gut to come online and try to deter other students from attending such a promising institution.

Those of you who read that post, just don't assume it's the truth or even something closer to that at all. The person mentioned housing and and parking lots problem here where the road is a lot, and for housing, there is a deal that you must sign before the semester ends. So, who is telling the truth???????. As I said before, I have been living in school housing since I got on the Island.

I just have to let you be the judge of that one...

Even if he or she is a student here, maybe that soul has never been in class or even been on campus.


Ok. I hope she/he comes cleaner and explain to us what she/he meant by that post b/c I still don't get it.

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i think this is the best way to look at it.

people who badmouth the school always bring a smile to my face. you don't get to see comebacks like "please learn how to spell right your making the school look bad".... what was the point of this thread??? school bad?...school good?....i'm konfused

i have to agree with the individual u are all bashing, i hated this place so much i left in the middle of first semester, and if she is not a student, then how does she now about crosbies and paying those crazy parking fees, only an aua student would now those things!!!!!!!!!!