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Seeing your original quote is actually quite hurtful, and I'm wanting to set the record straight.
I am WELL aware my academic record is not top notch. But going into this application cycle I had over 2,500 hours of shadowing and assisting. These hours were clocked in at a clinic many dental students would reject working in because we work with a very challenging group of patients. In this office I am cursed at daily, I've been spit on, and generally treated like dirt, but I stay because I love dentistry and I feel I am doing the right thing for struggling communities. This experience, along with being an urban teacher for 3 years in one of the hardest school districts in the country, more than made up for my GPA that you don't see as so worthy. I also never did a post-bac.
I posted my GPA certainly knowing it could be scrutinized. I posted it though because so many people are going into this application process feeling unworthy just like I did. But I wanted to leave it up because I felt it important for people to know that they are capable of multiple interviews and acceptances; some of which were indeed less expensive than NYU, but I chose it because I felt it was the best school for me.
I posted in this thread because OP wanted to know why NYU, and those are my reasons. Anybody giving advice would give compare and contrast anecdotes from their personal experiences that someone from another school could potentially be offended by, or certainly seen as inaccurate. Since this was an NYU-specific post, I felt it appropriate to mention the things I did.
Thanks for sharing.