***The Official UNLV Class of 2024 Interview Thread***

You graduated in 2019 and were done before all of this happened. If I remember correctly, you did not experience first hand 70-80% of these (or even 90%-95%.) Good luck thinking people are lying when they say something you do not want to hear. And Thank you for your criticism. It helps me develop my professionalism.

What you propose above is called "communist socialism". You propose to take from people who have more to distribute to people who have less. You will end up having these people who think they have something but actually nothing. The school should be responsible to increase experience for everyone and does not have to rely on some students to be doctrined into having communist and socialist ideals and agree to share to have everyone graduated on time.

I would like it very much to validate to you what I say above is true and the procedural counts are correct to the "last digit" :). However, it will expose who I am. Judging from how hostile you already are, I prefer not to go down this route. Hope you understand.


I don’t know if you actually know who I am so please do not jump to the conclusion since it can hurt the one you refer to who I can assure you does not write this post. I actually do not know who you are referring to but I am dead sure you don't know who I am, yet. Please also do not bring Honor Council here trying to discredit someone for having free speech. First of all, I never got into Honor Council. Second of all, do not use threat such as Dr. Lemon to give you names or to confirm. He is a nice and sweet gentlemen and he will violate privacy rule if he gives you names of any students who hits the aforementioned number of ENDO procedure. The way you use threat is pretty similar to how admins at this school work. I guess you are a pretty good educational product of this school that represents how this school works then. I can assure you if these threats worked on me, I would not be here preparing to graduate. Wait, hopefully I will not ever graduate.

Thank you for the list of graduation requirements you posted. I check and it is very accurate. However, given the numbers are not even high and are low, a lot of students struggle to meet these numbers given the clinic issues mentioned above. No worries. The school now has cut these into almost nothing. Typodonts to the rescue woohoo. If you want the actual number now, refer to your favorite tans and confirm.

Good luck in practice and I hope all your patients find you pleasant as you express yourself here in your post.



Like I said, just keep my post above and come back to it later. If this school does not change (I highly doubt it will), this will be likely what you experience in your clinical years.


Keep what I say to confirm if it is true later or not. I really hope it is not even 50% true but the truth is 90-95% (minus the lame jokes to make it more tolerable)

Lol you lost me on “communist and socialist ideas.” Take from people who have more to give to those who have less? If students are struggling as much as you say to get experience and meet requirements to graduate, and you are there sitting with those astronomical numbers, I don’t see why they shouldn’t take cases to distribute so everyone gets experience.

And if anything, it looks worse on you the more I think about it that you are willing to let your fellow classmates struggle while you are hogging all the cases.

I don’t think you really know the difference between communism, socialism, or something like democratic socialism. I myself am not an expert, but you seem to consider these to be negative things.

In reality, you are advocating for capitalism for the rich, and socialism for the poor.

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Lol you lost me on “communist and socialist ideas.” Take from people who have more to give to those who have less? If students are struggling as much as you say to get experience and meet requirements to graduate, and you are there sitting with those astronomical numbers, I don’t see why they shouldn’t take cases to distribute so everyone gets experience.

And if anything, it looks worse on you the more I think about it that you are willing to let your fellow classmates struggle while you are hogging all the cases.

I don’t think you really know the difference between communism, socialism, or something like democratic socialism. I myself am not an expert, but you seem to consider these to be negative things.

In reality, you are advocating for capitalism for the rich, and socialism for the poor.

You know what is funny. I include that statement just to try to offer impartial validation that I am not some lazy dental student who procrastinates until the end and is waiting for the bail out at the school (the admin of the school use this phrase to justify for the student struggle a lot, I never believe any dental student is lazy.) I am also not some student who is unlucky enough to have patients bailed on me. Imagine if I am the student who does struggle and posts this, I will be viewed as a complainer who does not do work. Just because I fortunately have these numbers, I should shut up and should not expose the school ?

Mr. Generous, wait until you hit clinics running and we will talk about looking bad, hoarding cases, and being selfish. I write the post just to inform. You will realize you cannot save the sinking ship. You want the experience to get the good job and feel confidence. Plus, gathering up those cases requires a lot of unnoticeable hard work. And you realize you are paying a lot of money per year for dental school right? you are just going to give up learning and give yourself a higher chance to struggle later when you have to work in real-life?

One thing I forgot to post it is the school grades you on production points. They attach an arbitrary number of points to every procedure you do and at the end of the semester you have to hit certain number of production point to pass clinic. Though many who have not hit the minimum still pass, I do not want to be put at the mercy of this school. I did give out a lot of procedures which I did not mention. The ones I gave away are critical experiences to help a couple other students complete requirement. However, if you expect me to post a list of stuff I have and give it out for grab like Free-to-Take on craiglist, I did not do it. And the numbers I have so far are after the ones I gave away. My number could have been higher if I was truly hoarding. No doubt about it. However, I still have to maintain the minimum passing production points, aka doing procedures. I cannot just sit back and do nothing and hand out everything I have. So before you judge, know this fact.

I wrote that post simply to inform. If you don't believe it and find it ridiculous, I am totally fine with that. Just PM me in 3 years and let me know how great clinic at SDM will be going for you. I will send you a sincere apology for having misled you and send you a gift :). However, if during the future mental meltdown, my posts come up to your mind, you have my condolences.
 
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You know what is funny. I include that statement just to try to offer impartial validation that I am not some lazy dental student who procrastinates until the end and is waiting for the bail out at the school (the admin of the school use this phrase to justify for the student struggle a lot, I never believe any dental student is lazy.) I am also not some student who is unlucky enough to have patients bailed on me. Imagine if I am the student who does struggle and posts this, I will be viewed as a complainer who does not do work. Just because I fortunately have these numbers, I should shut up and should not expose the school ?

Mr. Generous, wait until you hit clinics running and we will talk about looking bad, hoarding cases, and being selfish. I write the post just to inform. You will realize you cannot save the sinking ship. You want the experience to get the good job and feel confidence. Plus, gathering up those cases requires a lot of unnoticeable hard work. And you realize you are paying a lot of money per year for dental school right? you are just going to give up learning and give yourself a higher chance to struggle later when you have to work in real-life?

One thing I forgot to post it is the school grades you on production points. They attach an arbitrary number of points to every procedure you do and at the end of the semester you have to hit certain number of production point to pass clinic. Though many who have not hit the minimum still pass, I do not want to be put at the mercy of this school. I did give out a lot of procedures which I did not mention. The ones I gave away are critical experiences to help a couple other students complete requirement. However, if you expect me to post a list of stuff I have and give it out for grab like Free-to-Take on craiglist, I did not do it. And the numbers I have so far are after the ones I gave away. My number could have been higher if I was truly hoarding. No doubt about it. However, I still have to maintain the minimum passing production points, aka doing procedures. I cannot just sit back and do nothing and hand out everything I have. So before you judge, know this fact.

I wrote that post simply to inform. If you don't believe it and find it ridiculous, I am totally fine with that. Just PM me in 3 years and let me know how great clinic at SDM will be going for you. I will send you a sincere apology for having misled you and send you a gift :). However, if during the future mental meltdown, my posts come up to your mind, you have my condolences.

Bailout from the school? Now that sounds like socialism hahaha.

I never said you have to give out all your cases. I’m just a little skeptical when your numbers are high yet everyone else is struggling to get experience/patients/cases/minimum requirements.

Every school got its issues at the end of the day
 
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Bailout from the school? Now that sounds like socialism hahaha.

I never said you have to give out all your cases. I’m just a little skeptical when your numbers are high yet everyone else is struggling to get experience/patients/cases/minimum requirements.

Every school got its issues at the end of the day

Thank you for the entertainment during this boring time.

This is spot on my original points.

I am not stating that you are fundamentally wrong by calling out the institution, I DO think UNLV SDM has a lot of room for improvement and I agree with you on many of the flaws you've pointed out; However, I do have a problem in the way you approach the situation Mr. Class of 2020, and yes we (as a collective term) know who you are.

I have problem with the way you rant, complain, and make it seem everyone is against you. And yet, you claim to have gained ALL these experiences (which I DO NOT believe ),while attending UNLV SDM without helping your struggling classmates. Don't forget that being a Dentist is about helping others before your own interests.

I can also tell by reading your rants, that you have a limited understanding of the terms “communism”, “socialism” and “generous”. And even though you are indeed protected by the first amendment, using that terminology to describe "helping others " is nevertheless misleading.

In my experience/personal perspective, UNLV SDM is a great institution that allows people who have the desire and willingness to learn, excel in the field of Dentistry. I worked hard, played hard, and tried hard. However, I can confidently say that I did not step on others to get through my experiences in order to learn my skills. IF you indeed have all those experiences as you claim, you've had to work hard for them, and UNLV is the place for people like you, a hard working individual who strives to be a better clinician.

What I cannot stand, besides your fragile ego, is your lack of suggestions to the school system, instead of having a negative approach to the problem, you could have proposed a solution(s). But you decided to rant in a pre-dent forum, you listed all these problems and issues without offering a single suggestion to the incoming class. Since you are so successful on your own account, can you share with the new incoming class what your tips and "tricks" are?

I can share some of my suggestions:

Having a respectful and friendly attitude among classmates to assist and help others goes a long way. I volunteered all 4 years in school to Saturday clinics, I assisted DS3 student on a regular basis when was a DS 4 to help them on OS, Endo, and restorative. I had the disposition to help and assist others anytime they asked for help if I had the ability to offer them some true insights. I received help from many upper classmen/women and I simply returned those favors by passing them on to others. These above are the advises to the incoming class, instead of putting them in a horror scene.

Again, I always remember what we are doing in and out of school, what experience numbers we have is simply helping us to be more confident and to refine our skills, so we can help others in our respective communities. This is NEVER about us, it is about the people we served.

This is my last post regarding this matter, thank you! Be safe everyone.
 
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Thank you for the entertainment during this boring time.

This is spot on my original points.

I am not stating that you are fundamentally wrong by calling out the institution, I DO think UNLV SDM has a lot of room for improvement and I agree with you on many of the flaws you've pointed out; However, I do have a problem in the way you approach the situation Mr. Class of 2020, and yes we (as a collective term) know who you are.

I have problem with the way you rant, complain, and make it seem everyone is against you. And yet, you claim to have gained ALL these experiences (which I DO NOT believe ),while attending UNLV SDM without helping your struggling classmates. Don't forget that being a Dentist is about helping others before your own interests.

I can also tell by reading your rants, that you have a limited understanding of the terms “communism”, “socialism” and “generous”. And even though you are indeed protected by the first amendment, using that terminology to describe "helping others " is nevertheless misleading.

In my experience/personal perspective, UNLV SDM is a great institution that allows people who have the desire and willingness to learn, excel in the field of Dentistry. I worked hard, played hard, and tried hard. However, I can confidently say that I did not step on others to get through my experiences in order to learn my skills. IF you indeed have all those experiences as you claim, you've had to work hard for them, and UNLV is the place for people like you, a hard working individual who strives to be a better clinician.

What I cannot stand, besides your fragile ego, is your lack of suggestions to the school system, instead of having a negative approach to the problem, you could have proposed a solution(s). But you decided to rant in a pre-dent forum, you listed all these problems and issues without offering a single suggestion to the incoming class. Since you are so successful on your own account, can you share with the new incoming class what your tips and "tricks" are?

I can share some of my suggestions:

Having a respectful and friendly attitude among classmates to assist and help others goes a long way. I volunteered all 4 years in school to Saturday clinics, I assisted DS3 student on a regular basis when was a DS 4 to help them on OS, Endo, and restorative. I had the disposition to help and assist others anytime they asked for help if I had the ability to offer them some true insights. I received help from many upper classmen/women and I simply returned those favors by passing them on to others. These above are the advises to the incoming class, instead of putting them in a horror scene.

Again, I always remember what we are doing in and out of school, what experience numbers we have is simply helping us to be more confident and to refine our skills, so we can help others in our respective communities. This is NEVER about us, it is about the people we served.

This is my last post regarding this matter, thank you! Be safe everyone.

Thank you for providing advice. I hope you don’t mind if I PM you in the future if I need more advice on maximizing my potential at UNLV.
 
Has anyone been or know anyone that has been accepted after December 1st during this cycle? I'm trying to figure out if UNLV has sent out more acceptances after their first round
 
Has anyone been or know anyone that has been accepted after December 1st during this cycle? I'm trying to figure out if UNLV has sent out more acceptances after their first round
They had emailed me and said that they had already sent out secondary acceptances, but someone said on facebook that Dr. Ancajas said they haven't sent any other acceptances out. I am super confused about it all and am keeping my expectations low lol. Especially since I haven't heard anything from them since my interview in October :/
 
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They had emailed me and said that they had already sent out secondary acceptances, but someone said on facebook that Dr. Ancajas said they haven't sent any other acceptances out. I am super confused about it all and am keeping my expectations low lol. Especially since I haven't heard anything from them since my interview in October :/

Ah, exactly! That's why I was asking.. I am super confused as well lol. The anxiety is even more real since we can already start filling out next year's application :(
 
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I just got an email about being placed on an "Alternative List." Has anyone else heard back or got any acceptances?

Haven’t heard anything not sure if that’s a good thing or bad thing
 
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