Dental School Decision

[The Anxious One]

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Hey SDN,

I would appreciate it if you guys could give me your honest opinions on what decision I should make for this upcoming cycle. I applied to only to a handful of schools this preceding October because I figured I would take a gap year in the end since I applied very late in the cycle; however, I got an acceptance to NYU and got waitlisted for Boston. These schools are obscenely expensive and I was wondering whether it's best to wait another year and apply this coming June or just go through with NYU.

These are my stats:

Bio: 20
GC: 21
OC: 19
RC: 20
QR: 18
PAT: 18
AA: 20
TS: 20

GPA: 3.5
sGPA: 3.3

I would really appreciate your input SDN! It's $90k+ for tuition alone at NYU!

 

[mariobrosdoctor]

Hey SDN,

I would appreciate it if you guys could give me your honest opinions on what decision I should make for this upcoming cycle. I applied to only to a handful of schools this preceding October because I figured I would take a gap year in the end since I applied very late in the cycle; however, I got an acceptance to NYU and got waitlisted for Boston. These schools are obscenely expensive and I was wondering whether it's best to wait another year and apply this coming June or just go through with NYU.

These are my stats:

Bio: 20
GC: 21
OC: 19
RC: 20
QR: 18
PAT: 18
AA: 20
TS: 20

GPA: 3.5
sGPA: 3.3

I would really appreciate your input SDN! It's $90k+ for tuition alone at NYU!

I personally would just take the acceptance at NYU. There are no guarantees with this process.

 

[I-hate-alginate]

Go to NYU. I know people with your stats who went through gap years when the application cycle didn't go their way. You're playing with fire if you give up on your acceptance.

 

[dPseh]

I may be out of the loop with this, but doesn’t AADSAS ask if you’ve previously applied (and been accepted to) dental school? If you reject the offer based off of “tuition too high”, I don’t think it will look good. And once other schools find out that you turned down an acceptance, I don’t think they look upon that favorably.

You should have done the research about tuition prior to applying to those schools, and if you found out at the interview, withdrew your application afterwards to avoid this situation.

It’s expensive, but risking it to turn down an acceptance to get into a cheaper school next year might not be worth it.

 

[Chip Otle]

This is why you only apply to schools you would actually go to.

 

[Likkriue]

If you want to be a dentist, go. If you don't want to be a dentist(highly reccomend), do something like nursing or PA school.

 

[The Anxious One]

Yeah that makes sense. Thanks for the input!

 

[The Anxious One]

Don't get me wrong it's a school that has everything I love (location, research, top of the line resources, etc.) It's just the financial responsibilty I wanted to take into account. I know many of you might say cost shouldn't be taken into account as highly as the value of education and opportunity offered but I'm a little skeptical of that view. I applied to these schools with the idea of attending. I knew the tuition would be this high but I wanted to make the informed decision when I arrived at this kind of crossroad. Ultimately after hearing this feedback and looking at my current situation, I'm very likely attending NYU. Despite the costliness, I love a lot of things about NYU that the idea of passing it up for a cheaper school is reckless and risky.

Once again thank you guys!

 

[Stanelz]

personally I wouldnt go. I know people say take whatever acceptance you get and all but unless you dont think you wouldnt be happy with any other career in the world I would not go 500k into debt for dentistry no matter how much I like it (and I really love it). Thats over a million after its all said and done and yes maybe you want to go into the profession to give people love and service but at the end of the day money is important too and I couldnt stand to be in that much debt for essentially my whole life, Ill find another way to love and serve people. Thats my two cents take it or leave it, i know its not a popular viewpoint. Personally my debt load is estimated at 375ish and I have budgeted it down to 260 due to personal savings and frugal spending, If my personal estimate was over 400 I would pass but thats just me.

Update: If you really want to be a dentist i say go for it, i dont want to discourage you too much because I know how it feels to have 0 acceptances and 1 acceptance so if you feel the debt burden is worth it and you cant see yourself doing anything else then go for it knowing that you will be under a large financial burden to do so. Sometimes that heart wants what it wants.