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No. The opportunity to get to know the faculty and residents in your 3rd and 4th year also means your have the opportunity to look like a complete idiot who doesn't know anything (because truthfully, any dental student is going to seem like an idiot). Plus, you'll be too busy doing dental school stuff to hang around at the hospital. If you look at the list of current Rutgers residents, 1/12 were Rutgers grads who went straight into the residency. There are other Rutgers grads, but they matched after non-cat years.

Rutgers is a great OMFS program and lots of people apply; they basically get their top picks of whatever applicants they want. I can't comment on how programs rank applicants, but my sense is they really don't have preference for home students. Why would they? They get really talented applicants with killer scores from all over the country. I couldn't tell you a single program that favors home applicants.

The Rutgers dental school is whatever (but most importantly, cheaper than most others!). Can't go wrong with the dental school. Even brand new schools like Touro are churning people into the OS applicant pool. Besides, your chances of actually matching to Rutgers (or any) OMFS as a pre-dent right now is like 0.001% anyway unless you have some hidden background you didn't mention. You are not only competing against your classmates (all schools produce at least a pair of pretty competitive applicants each year with great scores), not only are you competing against the hundreds of non-cats each year who literally just spent an entire year (or sometimes multiple years!) as interns at the residency every day hoping to get in, you are also competing against every applicant in the country.

Just go to the cheapest dental school you can.
 
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No. The opportunity to get to know the faculty and residents in your 3rd and 4th year also means your have the opportunity to look like a complete idiot who doesn't know anything (because truthfully, any dental student is going to seem like an idiot). Plus, you'll be too busy doing dental school stuff to hang around at the hospital. If you look at the list of current Rutgers residents, 1/12 were Rutgers grads who went straight into the residency. There are other Rutgers grads, but they matched after non-cat years.

Rutgers is a great OMFS program and lots of people apply; they basically get their top picks of whatever applicants they want. I can't comment on how programs rank applicants, but my sense is they really don't have preference for home students. Why would they? They get really talented applicants with killer scores from all over the country. I couldn't tell you a single program that favors home applicants.

The Rutgers dental school is whatever (but most importantly, cheaper than most others!). Can't go wrong with the dental school. Even brand new schools like Touro are churning people into the OS applicant pool. Besides, your chances of actually matching to Rutgers (or any) OMFS as a pre-dent right now is like 0.001% anyway unless you have some hidden background you didn't mention. You are not only competing against your classmates (all schools produce at least a pair of pretty competitive applicants each year with great scores), not only are you competing against the hundreds of non-cats each year who literally just spent an entire year (or sometimes multiple years!) as interns at the residency every day hoping to get in, you are also competing against every applicant in the country.

Just go to the cheapest dental school you can.
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At my home program, it definitely helps. If they are willing to go out on a limb and write you a strong LOR, they believe they should also be considering you highly.

Vice versa also applies as well
 
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This year in my class a few people applied to OMFS programs but no one matched even to our home program. The people that applied all have good relationships with the OS department and got good letters from the OS faculty. This cycle there was an increase in the number of OMFS applicants and our home program simply found applicants that are even better than their current DDS students, so they have to pass on their own dental students.
 
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