Cali students screwed

[Fonz]

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I can speak for all CA schools and the trick is not high stats or a list of extra curics that would put you on every other page in your school yearbook!


The secret??

Being dead sexy baby!!!!!!!!!

Or at least walking into your interview thinking you are!

Sweet. I'm a shoe in!!

 

[ItsGavinC]

Also, I would also like to mention that the WICHE states (Wyoming, Utah, etc) have agreements with some dental schools (ex: Creighton) to accept a certain amount of students from those states.

Those 10 students from Utah that Creighton accepts sure is a big help to the other 500 dental applicants from Utah.

 

[ItsGavinC]

The point I'm trying to make is that even though California has the most dental schools in the US, it also has the most applicants and is probably the hardest to get into.

Not much fact in what you're saying. If you look at it from an applicant:seat ratio, California probably has a fairly good thing going. Of course, a ratio such as that doesn't do much because students apply to schools all over the country.

 

[tony24]

Those 10 students from Utah that Creighton accepts sure is a big help to the other 500 dental applicants from Utah.

If you consider the other schools that participate in WICHE then it is not as bad as it appears considering that there are 500 applicants. Where did you get your stats that there are 500 dental applicants from Utah? Considering that there are around 3000 applicants a year that approximates to about 17% of the total applicants coming from a state with a population ranking of 34.

 

[armorshell]

If you consider the other schools that participate in WICHE then it is not as bad as it appears considering that there are 500 applicants. Where did you get your stats that there are 500 dental applicants from Utah? Considering that there are around 3000 applicants a year that approximates to about 17% of the total applicants coming from a state with a population ranking of 34.

There are way more than 3000 applicants per year. Hell, in 2004 there were over 9000 and the number has been going up ever since.

 

[taKgaHxiA]

I dunno if anybody mentioned TX. I think texans have the biggest advantage.

 

[NAVY DDS 2010]

There are way more than 3000 applicants per year. Hell, in 2004 there were over 9000 and the number has been going up ever since.

Definitely agree. There were 813 students alone from Texas that applied to Texas schools for the class of 2010. There is no way there were only 2200 more applicants to fill spots in 50+ other schools.

 

[dddsmack]

Ahhh..............where to start in this mess.......

First things first, Gavin couldn't be more correct. BYU alone put out ~350 applicants last year. Then consider the other five major feeder universities in Utah and 500 seems about right. I know this thread is supposed to be about how unfortunate it is to live in Cali. But there is no way that a state with 5 dental schools will get any sympathy from a state like Utah. And there was at least 12,000 app sent out last spring, and that number grew to about 14,000 by the fall.

I fully agree with almost every previous post: get the scores, apply early, have the right mentality, and most of all don't go beggin' for sympathy when you have all that you do in your own backyard. It usually rubs most people the wrong way.

 

[johntara04]

Ahhh..............where to start in this mess.......

First things first, Gavin couldn't be more correct. BYU alone put out ~350 applicants last year. Then consider the other five major feeder universities in Utah and 500 seems about right. I know this thread is supposed to be about how unfortunate it is to live in Cali. But there is no way that a state with 5 dental schools will get any sympathy from a state like Utah. And there was at least 12,000 app sent out last spring, and that number grew to about 14,000 by the fall.

I fully agree with almost every previous post: get the scores, apply early, have the right mentality, and most of all don't go beggin' for sympathy when you have all that you do in your own backyard. It usually rubs most people the wrong way.

Good post. Dental school is hard for everyone to get into (unless your dad has bought your seat as LLU or USC). Everybody feel the same way you do. Just do your best, give money to charity, and hope the gods like you enough to bless you with the opportunity to become a dentist. 😀

 

[tooth decay]

Well, I'm not speaking from experience (so I haven't done my research). I'm not sure if it's correct but both my oral surgeons I worked for (one was admissions board for UCLA dental school), my TMJ specialist (yes, I have TMJ), and my general dentist had around the same general response regarding CA dental schools. To be honest, I'd love to go to a california dental school because in my opinion and dental school is a dental school there is no "better" one. They just told me the quality of education has gone down since their days. I still love being in Cali and would love to stay in the bay area by going to UCSF but I also take into consideration SF is probably the highest percentage city where your patients are going to be coming in with HIV. I don't mean to offend anyone but just thought I'd add to the thread b/c that's what I heard. Sorry if I offended anyone.

Seeing that the entrance requirements for dental schools have dramatically increased in the past 5-7 years or so, I find the comment of decreasing quality of education a little odd. I would venture to guess that the overall quality of most dentists graduating now is probably as good as it has ever been.

 

[burgler09]

omg the world is out to get me

 

[pine88]

I don't know how old your specialists, etc were that you talked to, but it seemed to me that a lot of the dentists I talked to that had graduated a while ago had opinions of schools very different from those of recent gradutes (ppl who grad in the past 7 or so years). I think maybe they get out of touch with the school system and so their opinions might be old, or they don't like these young dentists who come around with all their crazy new ideas and methods.
I've only been in school 2 weeks but I've already learned so much about patient care, new materials and treatments that my dentist doesn't do or use. I can see why he would think students from this school weren't very good (which is what he told me) since the way I treat patients is going to be so different from him.