Hello! I am a high school senior that is trying to decide where to go for undergrad. My situation is a bit unusual, so here's some extra context:
I recently finished my college application process, where I was lucky enough to have been accepted to UNC (IS) and Case Western's 7-year dental program (3 undergrad, 4 dental school). I would like to specialize in OMFS after dental school. I was also accepted to other schools like NC State and Duke, but none of them are cheaper than UNC.
School 1: Case Western Reserve University
Pros:
Pros:
I would really appreciate any advice as I'm the first in my family to go into any medical profession. I also don't know a lot about how to efficiently research different dental schools because I've never done it before, so if anyone has any advice on that I'd really appreciate it! I'm having a lot of trouble finding information like class profile and class size for UNC and CWRU dental schools. I also think that one of my biggest mistakes in this college application process was not weighing fit as strongly, so I don't want to make the same mistake when searching for dental schools. If anyone has any general tips about paying for dental school, please let me know as well! Thank you!
I recently finished my college application process, where I was lucky enough to have been accepted to UNC (IS) and Case Western's 7-year dental program (3 undergrad, 4 dental school). I would like to specialize in OMFS after dental school. I was also accepted to other schools like NC State and Duke, but none of them are cheaper than UNC.
School 1: Case Western Reserve University
Pros:
- Guaranteed admission to dental school as long as I keep above a 3.5 GPA and score a 19AA on the DAT.
- Only 3 years of undergrad
- Undergrad grading does not have +/-, so a 91 is essentially the same as a 96.
- Don't have to complete a bachelor's degree, only have to get the prereqs done.
- I can apply to other dental schools after my 3rd year, so I am not bound to CWRU (but I probably won't get in).
- Their website says that the estimated COA for dental school would be around $100k/year.
- CWRU's SoDM is not as highly ranked as UNC.
- Undergrad is double that at UNC.
Pros:
- Instate tuition for undergrad
- Instate tuition for dental school (their website says $40k/year)
- Predental students say that they were very well prepared for the DAT
- No guaranteed acceptance (and UNC dental school is very difficult to get into)
- STEM grade deflation (Chem 102)
- One year longer
I would really appreciate any advice as I'm the first in my family to go into any medical profession. I also don't know a lot about how to efficiently research different dental schools because I've never done it before, so if anyone has any advice on that I'd really appreciate it! I'm having a lot of trouble finding information like class profile and class size for UNC and CWRU dental schools. I also think that one of my biggest mistakes in this college application process was not weighing fit as strongly, so I don't want to make the same mistake when searching for dental schools. If anyone has any general tips about paying for dental school, please let me know as well! Thank you!