Applicants This Cycle

[Startingover123]

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I read that applicants to med school this cycle are up 20%. Is the same true for dental schools?

 

[SkinnyT]

I would suspect it would go down for dental, but maybe up for med since prospective students foresee an increase in demand due to COVID-19 and other health issues? And most people associate dental with an increased risk for transmission due to aerosols, but hey just some food for thought or my personal thoughts. Just hope people realize that oral health is the window to overall health and are directly related, hence there will always be a demand for dentistry 🙂

 

[Startingover123]

I would suspect it would go down for dental, but maybe up for med since prospective students foresee an increase in demand due to COVID-19 and other health issues? And most people associate dental with an increased risk for transmission due to aerosols, but hey just some food for thought or my personal thoughts. Just hope people realize that oral health is the window to overall health and are directly related, hence there will always be a demand for dentistry 🙂

I think the high debt load scares people off as well?

 

[SkinnyT]

Absolutely!! Don’t go into dentistry for the money if you’re not ready to pay up high amounts of debt 💸

 

[SkinnyT]

Sorry can you explain the part about aerosols in dentistry and COVID?

Hey again just my thoughts but I am a RDH and have noticed a great number of dental providers concerned with the spread of Covid-19 through aerosols (cavitron and water particles), some even afraid of returning and/or delaying their return to work. Screening has helped to ween out higher risk and possible (+) patients but nothing is guaranteed. To each their own I guess.

 

[Mepandateeth]

I definitely think it increased since people do not have to spend money on traveling. So many people I talked to applied to more schools.

 

[Biodentist]

I spoke to someone who is an adcom for a certain school (not going to say which, don't even bother PMing me) and they told me their school had more applicants than ever, explaining why I may not have not received an interview (yet). I have slightly above average stats for the school, so it's probably not yield protection. Although I'm taking this with a grain of salt, since it seems like every year schools always say they've received more applications than they ever have.

 

[2thDoc11]

I spoke to someone who is an adcom for a certain school (not going to say which, don't even bother PMing me) and they told me their school had more applicants than ever, explaining why I may not have not received an interview (yet). I have slightly above average stats for the school, so it's probably not yield protection. Although I'm taking this with a grain of salt, since it seems like every year schools always say they've received more applications than they ever have.

Which school is this?

 

[SirBrotherJam]

I spoke to someone who is an adcom for a certain school (not going to say which, don't even bother PMing me) and they told me their school had more applicants than ever, explaining why I may not have not received an interview (yet). I have slightly above average stats for the school, so it's probably not yield protection. Although I'm taking this with a grain of salt, since it seems like every year schools always say they've received more applications than they ever have.

This makes complete sense. I would imagine that more top-tier candidates are applying to more schools because of online/virtual interviews and the travel costs that normally keep them from interviewing to 20+ schools are not there. This keeps more "average joes" that might normally get interviews nervous even though on any other year they would be fine. It's possible more people are applying overall, but definitely applying to more schools(hence the increase in applicants per school). Probably going to have to wait until after a lot of these candidates reject school offers before more interviews will go out.