Just to argue the counter point here, and mind you this is coming from a UCONN alum, who is a part time faculty there, and has a very good, friendly 1st name realtionship with multiple members of the adminstration there(including the dean).
"they do **** like drug testing and psych testing to a coupla students each year in each class"(poated by CatsMeow) If they're tesing a few people a year, that would be what 5 to 10% of the class, and based on the general population that would be well within "normal" levels(just think of how many of your patients are on some type of psych med, and/or have some form of addiction. And in what for many students might be there first REALLY stressfull, academically challenging envirnoment, that might actually lead an academically gifted individual to come across their first real failure of their lives, it CAN bring out underlying psychological and/or adverse and potentailly harmfull coping mechanisms. The smallness of UCONN, and how close a working relationship that many of the faculty get with the students can and lead the faculty to take of concern if they see some certain signs coming from students. As we all know, dentistry can be a very stressfull profession that can lead people to make irrational choices down the road and seek harmfull coping mechanisms that can affest their and/or their families health/ livelihood. Getting a grasp of a potential problem at an early point can help make eliminate potential problems down the road, and thata good thing.
Believe me, I'm not saying the UCONN is perfect, but I do know that its is much, much more "user friendly" than it was in the past. And if you ask the vast majority of dentists out there if their dental school "did something" to them during their years there that they found awfull/loathesome, you'd here probably 90% of them say "yes", and I'd be included in that category.
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