You and AskJeeves have been trolling not only against NYU but also Temple, for many nights and days, and too long.
Unfortunately, the way the real world works is based on other people's opinions.
This is quite simply the stupidest thing I have ever heard. My opinion of you is pretty rock-bottom.
Again, its very pretty that you think that success is determined by one's attitude...
No, success is determined by other people's opinions, amirite?
When you two run out of what few brain cells your parents gave you (most likely by accident), please do us a favor and change your career paths from dental school to something more applicable to your abilities, such as circus clowning.
By the way, every person I have talked to upon hearing the NYU name assumes it is a prestigious school. Not that I care really, but for the average Joe and Jane (your patients, if they even care), as of yet and probably for long, this name carries more weight than say Penn or Pacific, and perhaps on par with Columbia. After that it is
all up to your know-how and skill in practicing dentistry that will make your patients happy.
If you want to specialize, then certain schools may seem easier, but it isn't
impossible to get match of choice from NYU. There are students who go onto the most competitive specialties from NYU. No matter where, ability and attitude is necessary to reach specialization goals.
What's making these two troll so pathetically is because they wrongly think that it is only the opinions and considerations of
other people that determine one's ability to specialize, which they equate with success. Their delusional beliefs make them reject the individual student's potential altogether:
The schools you're accepted to, your job, your interaction with other people (which I hope you do), all based on other people's opinion....
These are the facts that do not change. You're going to get what you put into from your education. There are other factors that need to be seriously considered aside from the quality of education, but, luckily, the ability to specialize, and of far greater importance to the majority of us, the way to becoming a capable, successful dentist does not hinge on whether or not one attends a so-called 'top' dental school.