All I could find was info from like 02-08 and im not sure if it still applies. Any info?
Does Nova still have mandatory attendance?
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What were you planning on doing if attendance is not mandatory?
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Apparently all classes have mandatory attendance (swipe your card to indicate you are present). However, it appears that some of the professors don't care about attendance, so you don't have to be at ALL classes. This is what i heard from the current dental students there at least. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong.
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Why would you pay 100k a year just to not go to class?
And it's not like it's something in high school where you are required to go to school, you worked hard to get into DS by choice just to fool around?
Sounds silly to me
And it's not like it's something in high school where you are required to go to school, you worked hard to get into DS by choice just to fool around?
Sounds silly to me
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Well, perhaps you went out the nite before, woke up next to a model-looking girl, and decided to skip morning classes to do something else instead? Doesn't sound silly to me.
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im a first year here. yes they say attendance is 100% mandatory, but in reality the only classes that you really have to come to all the time are all the dental related classes. almost all of the med classes (histo, anatomy, biochem, microbio) the professors dont care if you show and they will even tell you that.
and to those of you who ask "why pay so much money to not go to class", you will realize within the first 2 weeks of school that there is just NOT ENOUGH TIME IN A DAY to: go to class, eat, study, sleep, etc. seriously im not joking, i would pay money to add a couple extra hrs in a day. you get to a point where its just not worth going to biochem becuzse the professor has all the info in his note packet and you cant pay attention because of the lack of sleep.
so it comes down to how you want to spend your 1 hr:
A. go to class and stare aimlessly at the screen while your professor talks in the background.
B. skip and go to the library and study independently for that class your skipping
C. skip and sleep
D. skip and go get breakfast at chick-fil-a
i went with option D this morning
and to those of you who ask "why pay so much money to not go to class", you will realize within the first 2 weeks of school that there is just NOT ENOUGH TIME IN A DAY to: go to class, eat, study, sleep, etc. seriously im not joking, i would pay money to add a couple extra hrs in a day. you get to a point where its just not worth going to biochem becuzse the professor has all the info in his note packet and you cant pay attention because of the lack of sleep.
so it comes down to how you want to spend your 1 hr:
A. go to class and stare aimlessly at the screen while your professor talks in the background.
B. skip and go to the library and study independently for that class your skipping
C. skip and sleep
D. skip and go get breakfast at chick-fil-a
i went with option D this morning
What if the lectures are just so confusing and out of context that you would gain more from just using that time to self-study the material?
Are you directing this towards me? If you are, nowhere in my post did I say I was against this. Calm down. You don't need to put yourself on a higher pedestal than everything based on "anecdotal evidence."
Thanks for sharing honest feedback. I'm taking 6 courses in this semester in my last year right now and dying cuz of amount of materials... I can imagine there would be much more materials in D1.
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Think of all the money ds could save by offering the courses online. Hey, you could even skip coming to ds at least for the first year.
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Bahaha, yeah and the dental school could spend all that money they saved on professors on a snazzy new commercial like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDR28lIRGZw&feature=related
On a related note, Nova interview tomorrow! Wooo! Psyched. 👍
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Imagine that some study more efficiently by reviewing the text/ppts versus going to their didactic classes( and possibly half awake)...this is unheard of. or at some schools, watching the lectures online.
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my friend went to NYCOM for his DO degree, he did not attend class because it was a waste of time, he watched all lectures online at 2x speed and was top of his class. He is now in residency in one of the most competitive specialties, Neurology. All in all, I believe that everyone learns their own way, and you cant box students into only 1 type of a successful student. I dunno if i would miss class each day, but if you do have online access, it seems like a better choice. He would study during the day and then watch the lectures at night, it was more effective to study on a fresh brain vs. trying to study after a full day of lectures
But again to each his own.
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If you can learn the same things and get the same grade, why not? It's silly to go to class just for the sake of going to class.
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I am glad you caught on to my sarcasm.
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This is less about what study methodology is best for an individual student and more about abiding by the requirements set by the schools. A perspective applicant/student does have a choice should he/she disagree with the stated policy.
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I am a D1 at Nova as well. Like my fellow peer I have also began to use my time more efficiently by skipping class and spending more time in the library. After going to class from 8-5 and attempting to go to the gym and eating dinner there is ultimately not enough time in the day to study. You will know by the 2nd week which classes you can skip and what you cant. As far as paying tuiton I didnt come to dental school to learn about the krebs cycle (I don't think that will help me very much down the road when im trying to do a root canal or extract a tooth) so I tend to only show up for my dental related lectures.
