2025 Decision Day advice thread (revisited)

[Mr.Smile12]

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Countdown to Decision Day 2025! We are going to remind everyone what you should be doing in advance.

Article to read

Dental School Decision Day: Your Guide | Student Doctor Network | SDN

Unlike applicants to other health professions programs, aspiring dentists applying through AADSAS must wait until December to get the first notification

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Post in: '2024 Decision Day reminders/countdown thread'

Dec 3, 2024

Calendar flips to December and the countdown is on.

This is the time to get out of the tryptophan slumber and learn how to calculate your costs of attendance at the schools where you were interviewed. What are your anticipated additional costs for travel, new clothes, new tools, etc.? Figure out the differences of attending each of the schools on your list and the impact any possible scholarship/grant amount can have on the calculation. Then, rank your schools. Then start planning your strategy asking family for money for Christmas or each of the eight nights of Hannukah (or pick...

• Mr.Smile12

Thread '► READ BEFORE YOU POST: Formatting your Thread ◄'

Dec 29, 2018

How to format your "Help me decide" thread:
Things in red are what you edit/delete! Then you can select your entire post and change the font color to black.

Title: "School X (IS/OOS) vs. School Y (IS/OOS) (vs. School Z, etc)"

**private schools don't need IS/OOS listed ** ​

-- You can add a poll if you would like to --

Post:
School 1: name
* IS/OOS?
Pros:

• look at list
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Cons:

• look at list ...

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• Forum: Help me Decide: X vs Y Dental School

We also need predental responses in the Fall 2025 Applicant Experience Survey (link in my signature). As of this posting, ZERO pre-dental applicants completed the survey. We need your input, especially given the changes in federal loans and repayment programs beginning with the 2026 incoming students. (Tell the predental reddit folks, if they want to effect change, this is one way to get the ball rolling.)