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What’s up readers, fans and fellow students!? Today we have a guest article from Angelica Delgado, a SALUS 2014 Optometry Student who went above and beyond to learn more about optometry and to get herself involved in the profession. Her story is both inspiring and informative and it is students like her who will go […]
Pre-Optometry Students- What are you doing this summer? Read More »
Before I entered optometry school I knew there would be some really cool things I would learn and experience throughout my 4 years, knowledge that would be unobtainable elsewhere. Now that I am in school there is not a day that goes by that I don’t learn something that fascinates me. Yet I can only
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In today’s article, Dale Paynter, a Salus Optometry School 2014 student will be talking about his pre-optometry experiences that helped solidify his decision to enter the field. Enjoy! One of the most important questions any prospective optometry student should ask his/herself is “Why did I choose optometry?” Indeed, this is one of the most important
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The summers of 2007 and 2008 come with blazing temperatures, yet I find myself sheltered in the air conditioned walls of Optix Family Eyecare Center, a private practice on Long Island operated by O.DÂ Joel Kestenbaum who graduated from the New England College of Optometry. I sit in the dimly lit pre-test room behind the
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This is the story of Matt Geller, the creator of OptometryStudents.com and his journey to becoming an Optometrist. I am woken by the sun shining through my dorm room window at SUNY Albany. Crawling out of bed, I rub my eyes and bring my day into focus. It is the fall semester of my sophomore
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Below is a list of the accredited of Optometry Schools in the United States of America and Canada. For articles to help you on your personal journey into optometry school, check these out! We wrote them all! How to Pick The Right Optometry School for You Letters of Recommendation For Optometry School 3 Steps To
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