dental school drop out rate

[GO BABY GO]

been looking all over the threads and ada website and couldn't come across any recent information regarding dental school retention rates for individual schools. there is an ada sheet posted below but having tough time extrapolating information from it. can someone kindly post a link that displays this information for each school, if it exists? i have heard some schools such as nyu and uconn fail out a huge amount of students so just want to see the numbers for all these schools. thank you.


http://www.ada.org/sections/professionalResources/pdfs/survey_ed_vol1.pdf

can someone help interpret p. 44? also on p. 46 it lists graduates for each school but does anyone know the class sizes for all those years? thanks.

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[Barking Lamb]

The NYU thing is a false rumor that has been floating around SDN for years.

Schools want to retain students to accrue their tuition and prove that they are a "quality institution". Schools have given me the impression very very few people drop out. They want to help you.

 

[mitrieD]

From what I understand, they try to keep their dental students as best as possible; its usually a rare probability to drop out.

 

[reely989]

Most schools I've interviewed at (maybe all, I don't recall the stats for one of them), have had 99%ish graduation. From dental students I've talked to, it sounds extremely unlikely to fail out as long as you show you are putting in the effort. They will do everything they can to help you. Not only does it make the school look bad if students fail out, they are also trying to provide a necessary service. If a student drops out, that is one less dentist they are training, and that spot goes to waste. Failing out does happen, but I think it takes a bad attitude and lack of willingness to show that you care about improving.

 

[smthngintheway]

Most schools I've interviewed at (maybe all, I don't recall the stats for one of them), have had 99%ish graduation. From dental students I've talked to, it sounds extremely unlikely to fail out as long as you show you are putting in the effort. They will do everything they can to help you. Not only does it make the school look bad if students fail out, they are also trying to MAKE MONEY. If a student drops out, that is one less STUDENT THEY ARE MAKING MONEY OFF OF, and that spot goes to waste. Failing out does happen, but I think it takes a bad attitude and lack of willingness to show that you care about improving.

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[GO BABY GO]

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yes but i think they are making even more money when they make you repeat a year....

 

[zeno]

There is a page that lists the enrollment for each year. So you can look up the school you are interested in and find the entering class number and then the graduating class number. These numbers are on different pages, but the information is there.

 

[sdotcopp]

been looking all over the threads and ada website and couldn't come across any recent information regarding dental school retention rates for individual schools. there is an ada sheet posted below but having tough time extrapolating information from it. can someone kindly post a link that displays this information for each school, if it exists? i have heard some schools such as nyu and uconn fail out a huge amount of students so just want to see the numbers for all these schools. thank you.


http://www.ada.org/sections/professionalResources/pdfs/survey_ed_vol1.pdf

can someone help interpret p. 44? also on p. 46 it lists graduates for each school but does anyone know the class sizes for all those years? thanks.

UCONN enrolls like 40 students so I highly doubt they boot anywhere near a "huge amount"

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[uva09]

I do not believe there is any exhaustive, detailed data for each, individual school available to the general public. Although, I am quite positive that each school records such data, not all "drop-outs" are alike and as such, it would be difficult to account for differences in a user-friendly document.

Remember, there is a profound difference between a "drop-out" due to academic reasons and one due to personal reasons. Historically, the highest levels of attrition can be seen during the first year. Accordingly, it seems ADA has distinguished the data to delineate personal and academic situations. Beyond first year, the data does not distinguish. The average person will likely attribute a documented drop-out to academic reasons - i.e. the student failed out. However, as the proverbial saying goes: **** happens. And no dental school can completely vacuum seal itself from extenuating, personal circumstances amongst its dental student body.

In my year, a female student became pregnant and eventually left school as her situation was clearly incompatible with being a full-time student. Although, she originally said she would re-enroll afterwards, it has been nearly two full years and still no sign of her return. To any outsider, her drop-out would probably garner the assumption of being academically related.

If I had to take a guess, I would be willing to bet that at least half, if not a majority of drop-out instances amongst dental schools for the entirety of the program length would be personal not academic in nature. Either way, it's clearly not always a case of he/she failed out or was unable to handle the rigors of dental school.

 

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