UPENN Or U Maryland Baltimore

Hi Guys,

I have been accepted at both UPENN and UMB.. I am trying to figure out which school I would like to attend. I want a school that has a strong clinical program.. I don't care too much about how strong the academics are because i don't plan on specializing. I know that UMB has some awesome new facilities, but UPENN also has a really strong reputation. Any info you guys had would be greatly appreciated!

Calident562 said:

Hi Guys,

I have been accepted at both UPENN and UMB.. I am trying to figure out which school I would like to attend. I want a school that has a strong clinical program.. I don't care too much about how strong the academics are because i don't plan on specializing. I know that UMB has some awesome new facilities, but UPENN also has a really strong reputation. Any info you guys had would be greatly appreciated!

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If you are a good student and work hard, both will prepare you more than adequately. Besides, what do you care about some pseudo-aristrocratic reputation, especially if you have no desire of specializing.

Consider this however...

I have 2 very good friends who went to UPENN, and I went to Maryland.
compared to them:

My assistants are way hotter... 😛 😛

I destroy them everytime we play golf... 😎 😎

And I get to rub it in their face that they are only DMD's...

just a little food for thought.

the difference is the cost. Do you want to pay out the butthole for the ivy league status?

I dont think that the difference in cost will be THAT much.. At penn they estimated it to be 75K a year, and at Maryland (out of state) thye estimated it to be 70K.. At most the difference will be around 10k.. i think.. I also heard that penn will undergo construction during the next few years

I turned down Upenn for UMD, and so did at least five other people that i know of at umd. For one thing there's the cost difference, and honestly if you're in state for Maryland you shouldn't even be thinking about anywhere else (if you're out of state, the diff is about 10k like said before).
Being in a new building makes a huge difference and we have acess to some really cool stuff like cerec 3d, waterlase, all digital radiography and digital patient records (soon to be implemented). These are things that will be absolutely standard in 4-5 yrs so you might as well learn them now instead of CE later (and it makes life waaaaayy easier when you can just retake an xray in a snap when you can't see something!). Also, you DO NOT WANT to be in a school while it's under construction, it will be terrible and everything will be messed up and only add in to your stress. However, since Penn has just started fundraising for their construction, they prolly wont build for a while, so I wouldn't worry about it.
I dunno what kind of rep upenn has (no one has really told me it has a "good rep" besides predents who think it's ivy league b/c of the undergrad : ) , but in the east coast, UMD is very well known among dentists as a great clinical school and with us getting to the clinic even sooner now that'll prolly get only better.
Anyway, I know they teach their peeps very well at Upenn too, so bottom line just go where you feel the most comfortable and feel like you'll be happy.

Calident562 said:

Hi Guys,

I have been accepted at both UPENN and UMB.. I am trying to figure out which school I would like to attend. I want a school that has a strong clinical program.. I don't care too much about how strong the academics are because i don't plan on specializing. I know that UMB has some awesome new facilities, but UPENN also has a really strong reputation. Any info you guys had would be greatly appreciated!

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I went to UPenn undergrad and turned down the dental school for UMB. Don't regret my decision for a second. Granted, I absolutely loved Philly, but Maryland gave me a great clinical experience and prepared me well for my OMS program at UAB. Any career choice you wanna pursue is availabe at Maryland, and with the new facilities, I imagine it's even sweeter...

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