BU vs NYU

[ckmonster]

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I got accepted to both schools and I am having trouble deciding where to go. I wish I had my decision made so I can give up my acceptance and other ppl waiting can get my spot.

Price of school is very similar so that doesnt help. I want to know a little more about the clinical experience at BU. The day of my interview seemed pretty slow at the clinics. 🙄

So please anyone going to BU or NYU can share their reasoning for what made you decide to go there? Thanks!

 

[Mackchops]

The number one reason to go to NYU, in my opinion, is you will never have a shortage of patients. In fact, I would pit our patient pool (in terms of size and degree of dental intervention needed) against just about any school out there. We accept Medicaid and receive a lot of patients whose care (for many things) isn't guided by finances. Our class size is manageable because of how we're broken down into groups and the additional resources of a school our size makes the opportunities for additional learning endless. There are honors and electives you can apply for in the fourth year -- forth years in these programs do more advanced procedures such has full-mouth reconstructions, complicated veneer cases (with Dr. Calamia), placing implants (with Dr. Tarnow), and treating TMD and facial pain patients.

Also, our preclinical education is pretty impressive as well -- we had 206 out of 209 pass the part one boards this year, which is way below the national failure rate. Our facilities are gorgeous, our faculty are helpful, and while I'm from Massachusetts and love Boston, living in New York is an experience that cannot be described. Amazing city.

If you have any specific questions about NYU, let me know. I'm pretty happy here.

 

[Kneecoal]

i have to decide between the two, too. i pretty much had my heart set on NYU for the facilities, location, nice big patient pool and whatnot, but after reading that blog one of the students has a link to on here has made it sound like he's drowning second year. granted i know this is only one student, and i'm not completely educated on all the pros and cons of each school yet, i feel like i might sink when it comes to NYU's block exams. BU isn't the same way, right?

 

[newyorkblork]

i have to decide between the two, too. i pretty much had my heart set on NYU for the facilities, location, nice big patient pool and whatnot, but after reading that blog one of the students has a link to on here has made it sound like he's drowning second year. granted i know this is only one student, and i'm not completely educated on all the pros and cons of each school yet, i feel like i might sink when it comes to NYU's block exams. BU isn't the same way, right?

"Drowning"?

 

[Kneecoal]

"Drowning"?

http://dentulous.wordpress.com/

 

[newyorkblork]

http://dentulous.wordpress.com/

I know I'm still a pre-dent, but a lot of dental students and faculty warn us that D1/D2 are very taxing, and dentaltown agrees that dental school is four years of hell that you have to tolerate on your way to becoming a dentist. I also feel like for every student you have that's drowning, you'll have 1 or 1/2 a student who thinks D2 is "alright"; going by one blog is a pretty rough sketch. NYU does graduate dentists every year, after all 😛

EDIT: The point of my pointless post being that I think this is the nature of D School, not NYU.

 

[who knows...]

I'm currently in first year, honestly, I thought block exams were really going to bother me, and they do to some extent, especially since I haven't gotten complete hang of it yet, but it just teaches you to stay up to date, learn the material ahead of time so you don't have to cram right before...so you end up learning the material better because you're actually learning it over a longer period of time...
I'm not one of those who can pull all nighters or function on 3 hours of sleep, I like to take my full 6-7 hours and so that only adds to teaching me how to really study ahead of time to survive...
Now, while I'm not doing as well as I want to be doing, I have hope that this first semester is a training session and things will look better 🙂
My point is, I don't think that should really make you decided for/against the school...consider other more important factors, I think...but, who knows..? I might change my mind after the final results come in for this semester HAHA..