Harvard vs. Howard

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ummmmm ....................... I am thinking harvard is ahead by a nose. 🙂
 
hahaha. This is the funniest thread I have seen to date. Good job!
 
I make most of my decisions based on names. That is why I'm so confused. These two only vary by a couple of letters. Of course Harvard has one extra letter, so that has to be better. Now that I think of it, Case Western Reserve University has got to be todays winner.
 
Oh my. What a difficult/stressful decision you are faced with. . :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: You're funny dude.
 
actually, if you go to countries outside north america, people often use 'harvard' in place of 'howard'. ive come across several people whove told me they go to 'harvard'...and then im like "ivy league, eh"..and theyre like "i never knew 'harvard' was an ivy league"😛
 
Yeah, these similar names really mess me up. Last year I thought I was applying to another Ivy league school in upper manhattan. I got accepted, but didn't feel very comfortable moving to Bogota.
 
If I got into both I would go to Howard because the school would just be a breeze to me
 
Its funny that you say that...sounds like you are pretty biased. Dental school is dental school..everyone is learning the same things for the boards. Now are you making that "funny" little comment because Howard is a HBCU...understand that the professional schools at Howard tend to be diverse...every ethnicity. So why don't you go do some research on Howard and then come back with intelligent educated things to say about their program.
 
Denticized said:
If I got into both I would go to Howard because the school would just be a breeze to me
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I think he said this b/c of the stats of the enrollees based on predents.com

DAT 16
PAT 15
GPA overall 3.02
GPA Science 2.8
 
29DATyep said:
Its funny that you say that...sounds like you are pretty biased. Dental school is dental school..everyone is learning the same things for the boards. Now are you making that "funny" little comment because Howard is a HBCU...understand that the professional schools at Howard tend to be diverse...every ethnicity. So why don't you go do some research on Howard and then come back with intelligent educated things to say about their program.
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I agree 100%..

I know this thread is supposed to be funny, but some people (like myself) will take some offense to it. Why do people assume that Howard would "be a breeze?" Did you interview there, or do you have any knowledge of the program besides the fact that it is an HBCU? I got accepted to Howard and am seriously considering going there. It annoys me that other people assume its an easy school largely b/c its predominately black and is therefore not worthy of any respect. It is true that Howard has lower stats. NYU also has lower stats compared to other schools, but yet people are fighting to get in there. I don't see any Harvard vs. NYU threads on here meant to be amusing. There are numerous grads of Howard running multi-million dollar practices. There are no rankings for dental school, so who's to say one school is better than another anyway?
 
shouldn't this thread be titled "apples vs. oranges"?
 
Cablindian said:
I don't see any Harvard vs. NYU threads on here meant to be amusing.
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You are right. Of course no one would have mistaken that for a joke, but I guess that's not the point. Howard University was certainly not meant to be the brunt of the joke. The only group that I came close to consciously mocking was those posting the dozens of apples vs. oranges posts, most of them including NYU. When I first learned of Howard, all I knew is that it had the lowest readily available stats out of all the schools in the book. Now the knee jerk response to such data is that the students there are less quailified and that the school choosing them is inferior. The coralary to this line of reasoning is that anyone with decent stats should be in with no problem. I think the difference between Howard and Harvard has more to do with criteria than standards, and that goes for the students choosing as much as for the adcoms.
 
dddsmack said:
It should be Shiny Apples Vs. Rotten Apples
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Some shiny apples may have rotten cores, but I'm sure none of these should apply to the Harv.
 
dddsmack said:
It should be Shiny Apples Vs. Rotten Apples
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Some shiny apples may have rotten cores, but I'm sure none of these should apply to the Harv. 😛
 
Cablindian said:
I agree 100%..

I know this thread is supposed to be funny, but some people (like myself) will take some offense to it. Why do people assume that Howard would "be a breeze?" Did you interview there, or do you have any knowledge of the program besides the fact that it is an HBCU? I got accepted to Howard and am seriously considering going there. It annoys me that other people assume its an easy school largely b/c its predominately black and is therefore not worthy of any respect. It is true that Howard has lower stats. NYU also has lower stats compared to other schools, but yet people are fighting to get in there. I don't see any Harvard vs. NYU threads on here meant to be amusing. There are numerous grads of Howard running multi-million dollar practices. There are no rankings for dental school, so who's to say one school is better than another anyway?
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Lets not get our panties in a bunch, it was just a joke.
 
29DATyep said:
Its funny that you say that...sounds like you are pretty biased. Dental school is dental school..everyone is learning the same things for the boards. Now are you making that "funny" little comment because Howard is a HBCU...understand that the professional schools at Howard tend to be diverse...every ethnicity. So why don't you go do some research on Howard and then come back with intelligent educated things to say about their program.
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👍

No-brainer to me. Think of all the honeys/hotties on the undergrad campus at Howard.
 
dddsmack said:
It should be Shiny Apples Vs. Rotten Apples
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That's low. I suggest you get some more/better real world experience before you go spoutin off untruths. I mean, it's about as open-minded as me saying that all mormons practice polygamy just cuz a few ppl who claim to be mormon practice polygamy. Not cool dude.
 
Howard... cuz I applied there.

But seriously, it's a good school. One of my friends got into Vanderbilt, Howard, and some other school for med school and is probably going to go to Howard.
 
Anyone who takes this thread seriously is taking SDN too seriously.

This thread is a nothing more than a joke. So laugh a little. :laugh:
 
I think both are shiny apples. It's just a matter of perspective. Dental schools, in general, are hard to get into. And Harvard dental school isn't the hardest professional school to get into.
 
DDSY said:
I think both are shiny apples. It's just a matter of perspective. Dental schools, in general, are hard to get into. And Harvard dental school isn't the hardest professional school to get into.
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Of course shiny apples aren't necessarily the best. Those committed to organic food would claim that shinier means more pesticides.
 
DDSY said:
Of course shiny apples aren't necessarily the best. Those committed to organic food would claim that shinier means more pesticides.
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You know, for a second there, I was about to ask you if you drank too much froth of Romanticism... then you posted the organic food bit. 🙄
 
dddsmack said:
Anyone who takes this thread seriously is taking SDN too seriously.

This thread is a nothing more than a joke. So laugh a little. :laugh:
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Most people on SDN are here to receive constructive criticism and maybe some guidance... Threads like this do neither, it actually offends people.
I was accepted to Tufts with a deans scholarship, I was also accepted to Temple... Schools where some people are dieng to go to. But guess what... I'm going to HOWARD, so don't say that they only accept low caliber applicants. Howard is a great institution that breeds high caliber proffessionals. enough said.
 
amichail said:
Most people on SDN are here to receive constructive criticism and maybe some guidance... Threads like this do neither, it actually offends people.
I was accepted to Tufts with a deans scholarship, I was also accepted to Temple... Schools where some people are dieng to go to. But guess what... I'm going to HOWARD, so don't say that they only accept low caliber applicants. Howard is a great institution that breeds high caliber proffessionals. enough said.
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Howard wins hands down in the matchup of Howard vs. Temple. I don't know many people dying to go to temple.
 
HeMan said:
Yeah, these similar names really mess me up. Last year I thought I was applying to another Ivy league school in upper manhattan. I got accepted, but didn't feel very comfortable moving to Bogota.
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HAHAHAHAHA... hilarious. Please go to Harvard. The class needs funny people like you.
 
the dean of howard actually said he was doing a case study... between the correlation of DAT scores and Board scores and how a low DAT/GPA doesn't discount your ability to kick ass on the boards. the 4th years just scored on average over 90th percentile. there are some brilliant people in my class no doubt and our dean expects us all to make no less than 95 percentile when its our turn!
 
TX2thDR said:
the dean of howard actually said he was doing a case study... between the correlation of DAT scores and Board scores and how a low DAT/GPA doesn't discount your ability to kick ass on the boards. the 4th years just scored on average over 90th percentile. there are some brilliant people in my class no doubt and our dean expects us all to make no less than 95 percentile when its our turn!
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How about the Part I national boards? How are Howard students on average doing with that?
 
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