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Let me know if you guys have any questions about Penn in particular or just D1 year. I'll do my best to answer them.
Congrats!! Any curriculum changes in the works that you know of?
There is a lot of change coming to the clinical curriculum. I don't want to go into the rumored changes because nothing is set in stone yet, but essentially the dean is trying to get the dental students to be in clinic more. How he plans on doing it is yet to be seen. Not to toot our own horn but we did have a 95% pass rate on clinical boards exam this year.General thoughts about curriculum (clinical skills + didactics)? Heard penn revamped its clinical curriculum
After D2. You assist D3/D4s once a week your first 2 years of dental school though.when do you start to see patients?
Ouch! That’s gotta sting.What’s the daily life like at Penn State?
The best is "oh you're a dental student? How long is that? Like 2 years?"What’s the daily life like at Penn State? Heard it’s a good school.
It's quite a few yeah but I think it changes every year. For example, apparently someone this past year got like a full tuition scholarship which my class didn't have. I know nothing about how they pick people for scholarships though.First congrats on your acceptance and completion of D1! I have read about a lot of students receiving scholarships here. Do you have any idea around how many are awarded, and if they are awarded on a need or merit basis?
Ouch! That’s gotta sting.
Big Hoss
I plead the fifth. Let's just say there's a good mix of people that have help from their parents, are doing HPSP (19 people in my class have HPSP + 2 are doing NHSC), and there are people taking out loans.How much loans did you take out for year 1?
What’s the daily life like at Penn State? Heard it’s a good school.
Ouch! That’s gotta sting.
Big Hoss
HPSP is the best...I plead the fifth. Let's just say there's a good mix of people that have help from their parents, are doing HPSP (19 people in my class have HPSP + 2 are doing NHSC), and there are people taking out loans.
Nah Kanye West is a fan of me.Are you a Kanye West fan?
So his Pablo album was based on your life story? No wonder why that album suck lolNah Kanye West is a fan of me.
I plead the fifth.
So his Pablo album was based on your life story? No wonder why that album suck lol
Whatever number you'd like me to say, I will edit my original post and insert that number in there for you.Lame
BRO. NOT WAVY.So his Pablo album was based on your life story? No wonder why that album suck lol
Let me know if you guys have any questions about Penn in particular or just D1 year. I'll do my best to answer them.
Yeah so the school is really interesting because when they renovated it, they tried to keep a lot of the old architecture. Essentially the school is two buildings (a research building and then another one with clinics/classrooms) connected by a hallway/atrium thing that you enter the front entrance from. All of the clinics/classrooms are new, but the library and the area outside of the library still have like the 1800s architecture. I almost felt like I was in an old church when I first interviewed.Are you guys in one building? I went there for a microsurgery course and I thought that the facilities were a nice mix of traditional architecture and more modern design in your clinical area.