Buffalo and VCU - class breaks?

[inthelab]

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Call it crazy, but travel is VERY important for me (really my major joy in life) and I will be choosing a dental school based in part on whether there are sufficiently extended breaks in the class/clinic schedule to work in any long trips. If you attend VCU or Buffalo can you confirm whether I have the break schedule right for these schools, INCLUDING CLINIC? I didn't have the nerve to ask about this during interviews!

BUFFALO...
Winter Break: 12/21 to 1/2
Summer Break: 6/16 to 8/14 summer after D1; 6/2 to 8/14 after D2&3
(these long summer breaks sound too good to be true -- are you in clinic some or all of this time?)

VCU...
Winter Break:
12/2-1/2 for D1; 12/9-1/2 for D2-4
Summer Break:
after D1, 5/4-5/13; then Pathology; then 6/23-7/24
after D2&3: 5/11-5/29; then summer clinic; then 7/7-7/30

 

[I'mFillingFine]

Call it crazy, but travel is VERY important for me (really my major joy in life) and I will be choosing a dental school based in part on whether there are sufficiently extended breaks in the class/clinic schedule to work in any long trips. If you attend VCU or Buffalo can you confirm whether I have the break schedule right for these schools, INCLUDING CLINIC? I didn't have the nerve to ask about this during interviews!

BUFFALO...
Winter Break: 12/21 to 1/2
Summer Break: 6/16 to 8/14 summer after D1; 6/2 to 8/14 after D2&3
(these long summer breaks sound too good to be true -- are you in clinic some or all of this time?)

VCU...
Winter Break:
12/2-1/2 for D1; 12/9-1/2 for D2-4
Summer Break:
after D1, 5/4-5/13; then Pathology; then 6/23-7/24
after D2&3: 5/11-5/29; then summer clinic; then 7/7-7/30

Yes, Buffalo sounds correct. Though remember that boards are during the summer after D2, and after D3 you're expected to do your externship. (Though that sounds like traveling to me! 😀)

Also, the summer after D1 is like a piece of second year stuck on...so that may go for longer than 6/16 depending on the year....regardless, the first summer is definitely the shortest.

And I agree on time off being an important factor! How else are you going to get through?

 

[virginiabeach]

VCU looks right but you take boards during the summer break between D1 and D2

 

[rocknightmare]

vcu is about right..

we get out tomorrow for 2nd years though 🙂

 

[ncalcate]

What you have for Buffalo is correct. Having personally experienced the break between D1 and D2 at Buffalo, you do have close to 2 months off. Plenty of time for travel, to do research at the school, or laze around like a bum while you prepare for the hell known as second year...