Congrats and good luck! Do you mind sharing your stats and when you completed the supplemental application? I am still hoping I'd get an interview with them and your post gives me so much hope. Wish you all the best with the interview!!
Sure, I have a 3.9 gpa and 21 AA/ 20 TS. I submitted my application back in late July, but ended up taking my DAT at a later date due to covid. I'm pretty sure that delayed my application quite a bit since UB states all requirements must be met before a full file review. Thanks for the well wishes! I hope you hear from them soon (its still possible!).
Hi, after you sent a the letter of interest, did you get a confirmation email? I would try calling the admissions office and letting them know your continued interest.
im in a very similar boat, I applied in August, but didnt take the DAT until September and then was completed and placed on Continuing Review in November. I sent two letters, one in December and one last week. I received a confirmation email that they received them but no luck with an interview so far. Buffalo is also my top
I did receive a confirmation email a few days ago. And okay I will try that thank you!
Wow interesting, do you mind me asking your stats?
21 PAT, 19AA, 19TS 3.5 GPA. I only applied to 6 schools, but I have received two interviews/acceptances. Tons of extra curriculars (leadership roles, awards, multiple organizations on and off campus), volunteering (+600 hours), shadowing (+300 hours).
You have great stats and great extra curriculars! We basically have the same stats along with above average experiences, so it’s really discouraging to see that it seems like they only care about DAT scores? Obviously a 19 AA is average but we both excelled in every other aspect of the application so I don’t understand.
Thank you! Your stats are amazing too, and I know they do a holistic review, I know people who have gotten in with lower DAT scores than ours, I genuinely have no idea why we werent selected for an interview, i hope it is not over yet.
Thank you for sharing, I am also waitlisted at Pitt! Congrats that is am excelled DAT score, unfortunately my strengths do not include timed testing and the DAT makes me extremely anxious. However I feel like the rest of my application makes up for my average DAT score
Thank you and congrats! In the email they sent me saying they received my letter of interest, they also said they will be interviewing through March so hopefully we will hear something soon! Good luck to you!
Thank you so much! And best of luck to you! Thank you for sharing that they are interviewing until March that gives me some hope, I hope we hear back and who knows maybe we'll be classmates!
I got one too! It's just a kind of update to let us know that they're still reviewing our app
Do you think thats a good or bad sign?
not a bad sign also not a good sign - It's just part of their process multiple have gotten interviews and admitted into UB despite being put on continuing review, try not to worry about it too much
Thank you!!not a bad sign also not a good sign - It's just part of their process multiple have gotten interviews and admitted into UB despite being put on continuing review, try not to worry about it too much
From people I have spoken with the general consensus is that Tufts did not do a great job adapting to covid. A student that goes there told me that many of the students had resentment towards faculty and administration on how they dealt with the entire situation. I would say this is a NO BRAINER type of decision. Im not sure about your residency but even if you are oos for NY it is so much cheaper than attending tufts who literally has about triple the class size and the cost of living in Boston is ridiculous.
I have also heard this.
@dentalguru101 I totally get your concerns. But I have to say no school expected the magnitude with which Covid would affect classes and clinicals. Every school struggled with transitioning to remote learning and trying to adapt, obviosuly some better than others. A trend I seem to have noticed and you can correct me if I am wrong is that private dental schools seem to have more negative opinion from students in comparison to public state schools regarding Covid related concerns. (Maybe it has something to do with private schools having larger class sizes such as tufts and NYU) Also many opinions may be subjective to the individual so I would take everything with a grain of salt. In my eyes buffalo is the clear option but you’ve posted inquiring about nyu and tufts over UB which seems as if you’re trying to convince yourself why not to go to UB.
Congratulation on your interview invite! Do you mind sharing your stats and may I ask when did you receive the invite?
Thank you! Sure, I got the invite a little over a week ago, 2/5. I have a 3.9 gpa and 21 AA/ 20 TS.
Do you mind me asking if you sent a letter of intent and are you IS or OOS?
I’m IS and also sent a letter of interest back In January.
Mine still says waitlist, when did you interview?
Dec 8 hbu
The last week of Jan!
Congrats! Can I ask when you interviewed?
Thank you. I interviewed dec 3rd
did you get the survey ?
I was told they’d be interviewing throughout March but I still haven’t heard anything
I applied pretty late in the cycle, but just received an email today saying my application was continuing to be reviewed, and that if chosen for an interview my status would change. So I guess there's a possibility they're still interviewing...
talked to admissions yesterday was told they are still sending out interview invites for this month. Best of luck
