Does location of school matter when trying to work right after school?

[DrSdreen]

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Hello everyone,

I got accepted to several schools in this cycle. I narrow them down to final two schools CASE (Cleveland) and NYU(nyc).

CASE:
pro: 1. got 10k each year scholarship 2. admission committee seems really care about each student 3. low living cost
cons: 1. some PBL

NYU:
pro: 1. large patient pool and good clinical experience 2. My family and I like the school name 3. invisalign program 4. More people more connections more opportunities?
cons: 1. have to do AEGD if I want to practice in NY? 2. high tuition living cost that makes me feel guilty(my parents pay for me).


About me:

As the deadline for second deposit will be coming soon in March, I am getting anxious about the right decision. So I want to ask here, and I would like to get some advice from some graduating dental students.
My goal is to gain strong clinical skills in school and find a job right away. So, I care most about the clinical experience I will get at school. Also, I would like to know what you all think of these two schools and if Cleveland will provide better job opportunities compared to more saturated NY region.

Thank you everyone in advance.

 

[Faux]

where do u live now?

final cost of both schools?

 

[super frank]

Huge savings if you go to Case. Cleveland is a great city, and I'm assuming there is far less saturation in Cleveland as compared to NY. Plus, Case is an amazing school.

No brainer.

 

[DrSdreen]

where do u live now?

final cost of both schools?

I am living in LA.
For CASE, the total tuition for 4 years is 310 k. Minus my scholarship, it is 270k.
NYU is around 330 k for tuition alone.

 

[DrSdreen]

Huge savings if you go to Case. Cleveland is a great city, and I'm assuming there is far less saturation in Cleveland as compared to NY. Plus, Case is an amazing school.

No brainer.

Yes, a lot of people told me that. But still, I am struggling....

 

[CanaDMD]

I am living in LA.
For CASE, the total tuition for 4 years is 310 k. Minus my scholarship, it is 270k.
NYU is around 330 k for tuition alone.

Last I checked, NYU costs about 550k right now overall no? (including living expenses)

Edit ; if you would like I could contact a friend there and verify

 

[sgv]

Some part time faculty will look for new hires from the graduating class and will often ask full time faculty for recommendations. It's easier to look for a job immediately around your dschool bc you can easily drive to your job interview in your D4 year.

You won't realize this til you're a D4 but none of this BS that schools advertise matter. Invisalign certification in dschool is a joke. You're given a couple 2 hour lectures, register, and BAM!, you have an insignificant Invisalign certification. It's meaningless. And you still won't really learn anything until you plan a moderately difficult Invisalign case, mess up, and have your ortho referral friend bail you out.

A crown prep is a crown prep. A DDS from NYU is just a DDS. Same for Case. You'll find out the overlooming factor that bothers you at night as a graduate will be debt. Not how many FPD or implant crowns you've delivered. Technical part in dschool is easy to pick up. Pushing your scope after you graduate is all on you.

 

[aggietxdent]

Some part time faculty will look for new hires from the graduating class and will often ask full time faculty for recommendations. It's easier to look for a job immediately around your dschool bc you can easily drive to your job interview in your D4 year.

You won't realize this til you're a D4 but none of this BS that schools advertise matter. Invisalign certification in dschool is a joke. You're given a couple 2 hour lectures, register, and BAM!, you have an insignificant Invisalign certification. It's meaningless. And you still won't really learn anything until you plan a moderately difficult Invisalign case, mess up, and have your ortho referral friend bail you out.

A crown prep is a crown prep. A DDS from NYU is just a DDS. Same for Case. You'll find out the overlooming factor that bothers you at night as a graduate will be debt. Not how many FPD or implant crowns you've delivered. Technical part in dschool is easy to pick up. Pushing your scope after you graduate is all on you.

What about schools that let students place implants? Would you consider that a worthy "advertisement" for the school or is that also meh? Genuinely asking. I just turned down a school that advertised both Invisalign and implants but I decided to go to the clinically better school but they don't do any implant work. I guess it doesn't really matter anymore since I already turned them down lol but I'm just curious if you've heard of any of these D4 implant programs to be successful.


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[rivarat]

The corporations won't care in the least where you went to dental school. Penn corporate grads make the same as cheap state school grads.

 

[DrSdreen]

Last I checked, NYU costs about 550k right now overall no? (including living expenses)

Edit ; if you would like I could contact a friend there and verify

Yeah, all I know that NYU has a high cost of attendance. Thanks! I think a ballpark of the cost should be good enough.

 

[DrSdreen]

The corporations won't care in the least where you went to dental school. Penn corporate grads make the same as cheap state school grads.

This is good to know. Thanks!

 

[sgv]

What about schools that let students place implants? Would you consider that a worthy "advertisement" for the school or is that also meh? Genuinely asking. I just turned down a school that advertised both Invisalign and implants but I decided to go to the clinically better school but they don't do any implant work. I guess it doesn't really matter anymore since I already turned them down lol but I'm just curious if you've heard of any of these D4 implant programs to be successful.


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Placing 1-2 routine implants (free handed or guided, doesn't matter) is not worth spending ten's of thousands of dollars at >5% interest when the one of the most difficult part of implant placement within the scope of most GP is the surgical and restorative treatment planning. There's no time in dschool's curriculum for them to include surgical implant treatment planning especially when they have GPR, Perio, OMFS programs.

Placing a couple straightforward implants in dschool won't give you the balls to go out into the real world and start placing implants left and right.