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I spoke with a 4th year student at LECOM this evening. Simply put they hate it. This person emphasized how the most ridiculous rules are enforced to extreme measures and they cited a female student being kicked out of class and nearly expelled for having a water bottle in a lecture hall. More to a serious point, this person mentioned that LECOM does not give any financial incentive to any of their participating hospitals, thus the hospitals are reconsidering their affiliation to LECOM. The student said that the number of hospitals was "rapidly" diminishing for the third and fourth year students to do their rotations at. The student referred to the administration as "nazis who rule with an iron fist" and don't give a crap about student opinion.

What also stood out in this conversation was that they said that the administration considering getting rid of the cadaver lab for 2/3 of its students (only offering it to the lecture path students).

They told me that four years ago at their interview that a matriculated friend of his (a 2nd yr) pulled him into the bathroom and told him to only go to LECOM if it was their only option, and person I was talking to said they wish they had taken that advice everyday since they've been there.

Plus, if you're male, you have wear a tie everyday during business hours – which means to class.

After hearing this and reading more about how LECOM aims to produce the most Docs than any other med school (allo and osteo) it began to seem more and more like a degree mill than anything else.

I will be applying to it, but only as a last ditch effort.