As a graduating senior myself, I agree with most of what JMJRDH1 has said about pros and cons of NYUCD. I don't know what year he or she's in, but majority of classes are not optional, especially all the non-dental related ones like Health promotion, ethics, Bio-terrorism, etc.
I've been around this forum, and everytime someone mentions of NYU, then people jump on the bandwagon saying "ooh, I've heard they drop like 100 people" or "it's really easy to be in top 5%" or something of that effect.
Well, I can tell y'all right now that there are more than 300 of us graduating this year, so you can do the math.
And being in 5% of any school isn't gonna be easy. And if you've been reading this forum, you shoud know NYU is not a "lax" kinda school. I know some of those who are in the top 10% of our class(OKU), and their work ethic, GPA, board scores are just as good as top students from other dental schools in U.S.
It's true that the school can be very unforgiving and majority of us suffer from high stress, but from what I've seen from other dental school collegues, I can't really say NYU is much worse than others. One more thing about the Part 1 board scores, the school gave us 1 week study break before the exam(this was before the computerized exams). Someone upstairs had an ingenious idea of putting our class in the clinic for the first time for 1 week, 2 weeks before the Board, then give us one week study break then bring us back. Why couldn't they give us that extra week?
But, after all, it really shouldn't be the school that drives you. Maybe I am becoming a bit sentimental, because it's getting close to the graduation, but I feel like if I can make it here, then I can make it any where~
And as for my future collegues,
yes, NYU really sucks sometime, well maybe the most of times, but suck it up.
As much as it sucks, there are some good people in here to willing to give you a hand.
If you're thinking about specializing, starting to show your faces around their clinic early. Each Dept. usually accept at least 1 or 2 from the graduating class.
Once you're in the clinic, take advantage of different clinics; like Rosenthal center, TMJ clinic, Implants, O.S. in Bellvue, whatever interests you. I really liked working in the esthetic center, my patients loved it too. It's very modern, contemporary looking clinic. (This is where our tuition went)
And since not many of us participate in research, you could do that. NYU just got like 26.7 million grant. One thing about this school, it's all about Money. All that Nursing school stuff, I suspect that the money was the main issue.
Anyway, first 2 years, study like you have no life what so ever, because that's when they will try to drop you. Once you make it to 3rd year, then you'll be making money for them and plus you'll be paying tuition so they are less likely to drop you. So I think they came up with this bright idea. There's a new clinic production requirement in effect from next year (starting from current D3) so if you don't make enough money for them, then they will drop you. This is a bad idea. Students don't have any choices of accepting certain kinds of patients, if you're lucky you're gonna get a patient who needs 3 Endos, 5 crowns and wanna get veneers, or you can get a denture reline patient. So I don't think it will work. Just try to keep up with others, then they can't fail you as long as you're in somewhere in middle.(Good Rule of
in NYU)
And the bridge requirement for the 4th year really blows. Despite of large patient pool, getting a bridge patient was really difficult. The school has $500 implant + crown incentive (in ideal cases only and limited to one per pt) so everytime brought a pt for Bridge case, a faculty will be telling pts about $500 implant, and it's over
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Well, this is about all I can think of right now.
What more can I say... Good Luck~
You'll need it
