It is important that NYSOA members contact the legislators identified on the attached document to share their opposition to this proposal. This message is brought to you by the NYSOA and was forwarded to my SUNY Optometry E-mail and is NOT an original article by OptometryStudents.com If you are a pre-optometry student applying to optometry …
The Successful Interview For my first optometry school interview, I was naturally apprehensive. I, like many other optometry school applicants, had already graduated from college. And although I had set myself back a year, so to speak, by delaying my application, I had used the extra time to gain more shadowing experience in optometry, as …
In Optometry School you are graded on your written exam’s and for assessments. The assessments take place in the lab (mock optometry exam room) and students are required to preform eye tests on staff or other students. So throughout the semester you are typically assessed on 1 procedure at a time, although final assessments may …
Any pre-optometry student who is accepted to more than one optometry school must make a very important decision: where to attend optometry school. This is a very crucial decision to make because you will be spending the next 4 long years of your life at this institution. It will become your new home! You cannot …
This important status update regarding the effects of universal health care on optometry is brought to you by Randolph E. Brooks, O.D. the president of the AOA. He was kind enough to send us SUNY students this message and now here it is for you all. I hope you can all review the article and …
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I sit on the Long Island Railroad heading from Long Island back to Astoria queens, I think about the midterms I just took in optometry school. What a challenge they were, studying an average of 7-8 hours per day everyday for 3 weeks takes soooo much out of you. It’s not like we had three …
Hey everyone out there. This message has been forwarded to my SUNY Optometry school e-mail and it is regarding how optometry students can act to make sure that Optometry has a positive and secure future. Sorry for the quick message. Midterms are keeping me way to busy to post at the moment, but this is …
Hey everyone, I just wanted to let all of our readers know that things are really busy lately because it is midterm week and I have no time to write articles. Dale has been very consistent with his OAT articles which are turning out to be very potent and useful! I wanted to give everyone …
Students applying to Optometry School hear it all the time, “make sure you have plenty of great letters of recommendation!!” Did you know that the way you go about requesting a letter of recommendation has a huge impact on the quality of the letter? Let me ask you your opinion… Which letter of recommendation would …
Optometry school is NOT easy, if you like a challenge then Optometry School is FOR YOU! It is not just classes and tests that you must focus your energy upon, but you must be hypersensitive to you financial situation, your commute to and from school, staying active with clubs/committees, networking yourself, and of course keeping …
