Manhattanville College

Date: Aug 01 2007
Major: PreMed and Medical (This Major's Salary over time)
I graduated from the University of Michigan in 2004 with a B.S. in Bio-psychology. I went to work for PepsiCo. Research and Development for 2 years and decided that medicine was my chosen profession. I applied to Manhattanville and i am now a post baccalaureate student in the pre-medical program. One of the highlights that intrigued me at Manhattanville was the close interaction with student to faculty. Also each student in a science major is REQUIRED to preform a research project that is submittable to a journal of that scientific community. However these are the ONLY things that are good about this school.

I have completed one and a half years at this school and I am almost completed with my program. After excelling in their courses and showing a true motivation to better myself as well as the program at this school I am truly dissapointed in the colleges' concern for the betterment of their students. I am currently on the pre-medical commitee that evaluates and improves the pre-medical program here at Manhattanville College. I sit on a panel with department heads of various science and math majors and we are in the midst of trying to improve the program to help students prepare for whatever medical graduate program that they are trying to get into (i.e. vetinary, medical, public health, etc.). However, I have never seen educators in such high level positions to alter the course of their student's academic lives so apathetic to changing the system! I have spent hours in these meeting going back and forth with department heads, who I call "professor", arguing how there is NO accountability for the failures of bright students not being prepared for what lay before them after college! This school has major problems with fostering a progressive and innovative attitude for improving their science programs! If you are a student interested in the sciences, please choose a different school.

My complaints about this school does not stop here. For a more general outlook, the library, usually a schools most prized resource for their students, does not support a studying atmosphere in their library. The building is ill equipped to even have climate control in their quiet study room! That's correct, a LIBRARY will install air-conditioners in their cafe and non-study areas, but nothing is requisitioned for their actual study rooms. This means that students who want to study in a quiet area, must suffer through sweltering hot temperatures in the summer, and frigid winds in the winter! Plus, the library staff, most of which never graduated from an accredited school of information, are not helpful when it comes to enforcing quiet areas, or even navigating their own Database!!!

I understand that this school is nowhere near as good as I had it at the University of Michigan, but I would expect that the type of attention given to each student on such a small and intimate campus as this would AT LEAST afford effort into satisfying the need to study. In my truly honest opinion, this school asks for approximately $20,000 (including medical insurance) per semester for an education that you could buy on an online college. For your own sake, if you have an SAT score above 1000, with good extracurriculars, please consider another school.