Wow at this point you're just telling lies
ADEA enables dental schools to rescind acceptances pass a certain deadline if they hold multiple seats. The fact that a student holds multiple seats alone does not make a dental school want to rescind their applicant's offer. You know, the whole necessary but not sufficient deal? I hope you can tell the difference
There are multiple dental students here that said they have told admission director that they were holding multiple seats at the time. Not only were they not punished for it, they were in fact rewarded for it when they openly admit more financial assistance would sway their decision.
Yes, I'm sure the schools just LOVE it when you call them to say that they are your second choice to another school, and that they will have to pay you to have the privilege of your attendance. (I hope you hear the sarcasm.) Maybe that has worked for a handful of audacious people at specific schools, but that is a very bad idea for the average applicant. While this phenomenon is common for undergraduate applicants (like student-athletes), the tacit convention in the dental school application process is that scholarships are not negotiable. You risk insulting the dean of admissions, who at some schools could also be the dean in charge of recommending you to residency programs.
An illustrative comparison: a patient is perfectly free to walk into your dental office and attempt to haggle the cost of whitening trays by claiming that another dentist is better and/or cheaper than you. Would you let that patient attempt to devalue your reputation, or would you tell them to pay or GTFO? And what if you were already offering the trays at a discount? Wouldn't you be offended?
Here is one of my sources:
http://www.adea.org/GoDental/Dental...Next_steps_for_those_who_received_offers.aspx
6. Don’t play the scholarship negotiation game.
Negotiating for scholarships sometimes happens, but is frowned upon. Most make their best offer, so don’t try to play a game where you try to put two dental schools against each other when one is really your first choice. Make a truly rational and justifiable case for additional funding, but realize your efforts will likely be fruitless. The best thing to do is prepare to work very hard and be very productive in dental school, as sometimes modest scholarships are offered to dental students based on their performance in their programs.
And for good measure, this article happens to be another example of an admissions director telling applicants not to hold multiple seats:
3. Decide on one school as early as possible.
Deposit amounts may seem small compared to the big tuition bills you’ll be paying, but you are preventing someone else from getting into dental school if you hold on to multiple seats for too long. Starting in April, schools will know where you have placed deposits and many will consider rescinding your offer if you do not make your choice by then. Pay any additional deposits as well. Generally, deposits are applied to your first-semester tuition.
My agenda is to help students with the admission process. What's your agenda? To convince people you stand at a higher moral ground?
Do you think you are helping the waitlisted students who sit in limbo through the spring (and even summer) because other applicants were too stupid or irresponsible to research and compare the schools when (1) they created a list of schools, (2) they submitted the applications, (3) they visited to interview, and (4) they were given a month with their acceptance packages, finances and all, laid out in front of them?
Holding onto multiple seats at the most desirable schools creates a chain reaction in which other applicants must make theoretically unnecessary deposits at less desirable schools before they get accepted to their preferred schools. This means that some of the applicants who hold onto multiple seats are forcing their colleagues to pay more than they should have to in order to enroll in their preferred dental school. This also consistently screws over applicants to the same few schools year after year, which are forced to withhold rejections off the waitlist until they see who actually shows up in August. This is a well-known phenomenon among the admissions officers...and in fact is an even bigger problem in medical school admissions due to the ranking of med schools.
I'm also here to help applicants. And I do have the moral high ground...it is my agenda to convince others to join me! That's the whole point of making an ethical argument.
