help a predent! Tufts or NYU ?

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We really can't help you very much, especially since we know nothing about your personal situation.

Are your parents wealthy? Did you get a scholarship? Do you favor one city over the other? What are your study habits like? At which school did you have a better interview experience? Do you have friends at either of these schools? What is most important to you in choosing a dental school (facilities, faculty, patient base, tuition, weather, etc.)?

YOU have to answer all of these questions and make an informed decision. Either way, patients won't care where you went to school.
 
lbennett said:
Does anyone have any advice on this... Tufts vs. NYU for pre-doctoral dental school??? I cant' decide!
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I can help you with this one.....NYU. All the way baby!!
 
I am a second year at nyucd and say go to tufts...unless you really want to be in nyc.
 
Definitely Tufts. The school will deny the fact that they kick out 50 students each year so call the admissions office and ask them what their "retention" rate is after the first year. You will be shocked to find out that NYU has the lowest retention rate. They don't have any problem kicking students out since they have already cashed out $75000 from your pocket. Go to NYU only if you don't have any choice.
 
Go to Tufts.

I have a classmate that pissed away a bucketload of money for a year at NYU. The place made her miserable.....it's the kind of place where you can't turn your back for a second. Her wax-ups were stolen, her HANDPIECE was stolen. She was so unhappy that, despite being very smart and hardworking, she had trouble functioning at NYU and subsequently left, not knowing if she'd ever make it in dentistry. Thankfully, two years later, we were smart enough to take her here at UConn. She'll make a great dentist.....NYU TOTALLY didn't see that or give a fig either.
 
bostonbryan said:
I am a second year at nyucd and say go to tufts...unless you really want to be in nyc.
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don't listen to this guy lbennett. He doesn't go to NYU!!
 
I don't....ok...and you know this how?

Anyways, I really don't care what you think you know, which is probably not much judging by your remarks. I am just trying to help someone out.


Do you go to nyucd?
 
Also, you can just look at my post history and decide if I am truthful. Or, just ask me a question or something. I have no problem proving that I am legit.
 
we 2nd years have an exam this coming tues...what is it?
 
Wrong!
Sex Ed...it is in Dean's Office at 4:00. You were correct about the time though 😀
 
I agree with BostonBryan.
I am also a second year at NYU and it's great because you are in NYC, but go to Tufts. They fail to mention that second year at NYU, about 150 AP students come into your class. The class is way too big.
But don't listen to others saying NYU kicks out 50 people/year. It's not true.
And if people do get kicked out, they deserve to get kicked out. First year is not very tough and you seriously have to be NOT studying to fail 4 courses. The deal with failing is---you can fail 3 courses and remediate during the summer. If you fail 4 courses than you are out. I think this is very generous.
At times I feel that NYU doesn't really teach you in lab. You basically learn from friends, from upperclassmen, from club tutorials, etc. Perhaps this is how it is at every school though??? Most likely it is? I say go to TUFTS because of the smaller class size. NYU is good though because you are in a great city and perhaps you may like the larger class size. There are advantages and disadavantages to having a large class. You have to weigh them out for yourself. For me, first year I really liked the class size which was about 260. However, second year, the class grew to about 360? That is in my opinion, way too large! Also, at NYU we use vitalbook. I can't stand it and would much rather have books. I believe Tufts has regular books.
At NYU you learn from Transcripts which again, in my opinion, translates to learning nothing. Sorry if I have offended anyone at NYU. There are some great things about the school and I don't think it's a bad school, just some things could be handled differently.
 
he's right

I had no doubt...just helping you out

So bostonbryan go ahead and post what you like if its good or bad about this place 🙂
 
by the way...hows studying coming along?

It doesn't seem too bad but so many damn transcripts to read...I think I will just do the powerpoints
 
Oh yeah...and if you get kicked out of here you are a ******. In the first year we had insane curves.
 
Brocnizer2007 said:
Oh yeah...and if you get kicked out of here you are a ******. In the first year we had insane curves.
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Hahah! That's the truth. I do miss them this year!
Do the first years have a curve this year?
I am sick of CR1 🙁 and am dreading the Biomaterials!
 
Althought I think that NYU is a fine institution, if you write the pros and cons about each school on a piece of paper, you'll clearly see that Tufts is the better choice....
 
I agree it's not too bad....mainly sticking to the .ppt and old tests. Thanks for helping me out.
 
bostonbryan said:
CRI..it is in Hunter at 4:00.
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People, listen up! Don't be fooled by this "oh, we have a test next week what is it" to prove that this boston bryan goes to NYU. Possible reasons:
1) BostonBryan is Brocnizer !!!!
2) BostonBryan and Brocnizer go to another school, and know each other - so maybe neither of them go to NYU
 
delicious said:
People, listen up! Don't be fooled by this "oh, we have a test next week what is it" to prove that this boston bryan goes to NYU. Possible reasons:
1) BostonBryan is Brocnizer !!!!
2) BostonBryan and Brocnizer go to another school, and know each other - so maybe neither of them go to NYU
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Go ahead and have a Moderator look up the IP's and you will see its not the case.

And second off...i've been here (SDN) for a very long time and been posting about NYU a lot. So go piss up another tree
 
delicious said:
People, listen up! Don't be fooled by this "oh, we have a test next week what is it" to prove that this boston bryan goes to NYU. Possible reasons:
1) BostonBryan is Brocnizer !!!!
2) BostonBryan and Brocnizer go to another school, and know each other - so maybe neither of them go to NYU
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Oh yeah...a while back someone asked for an example of an old exam and I posted it. Since you like to waste time go ahead and look that up.

Not sure why you are going after me, but I have also posted emails from the dean and others at this school
 
Brocnizer2007 said:
Since you like to waste time go ...
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It was just a joke brocnizer. I didn't give any proof, and it's so obvious you and that boston guy go to NYU. Did anyone really take my accusation seriously? If someone said that about me I'd just laugh. Sorry if I caused any distress.

Delicious
 
Douchilicous is at it again! Why do you consistently make useless remarks and apologize later? Go back to the hole you crawled out from!
 
Man, why does every thread where two or more schools are mentioned have to become a huge flame war.

If you want the skinny on Tufts, search the board for all of my posts regarding Tufts. It's now my 1.5th year here (I'm a second year), and my stance on the SCHOOL is the same. It's wonderful. As far as your experience where ever you go, that's for you to decide and make up yourself. You decide what to make of what the school offers.
 
lbennett said:
Does anyone have any advice on this... Tufts vs. NYU for pre-doctoral dental school??? I cant' decide!
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Base on these posts, Tufts all the way!
Why would u want to go a d school with a huge class size? I hope that NYU has 2-3x the numbers of faculty and facilities (comparing to other schools in the country) to accommodate their students...
260-360 students in a class, damn, it sounds more like quantity than quality to me.
 
lnn2 said:
Base on these posts, Tufts all the way!
Why would u want to go a d school with a huge class size? I hope that NYU has 2-3x the numbers of faculty and facilities (comparing to other schools in the country) to accommodate their students...
260-360 students in a class, damn, it sounds more like quantity than quality to me.
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In sim lab now there is 1 instructor for about 10 students. I never have a problem to get my work checked or asking for help. We have a ~130 seat bench lab and a ~110 seat sim lab. Our class is broken up into three groups of about 100 students. So you either have a morning, afternoon, or night lab session 4 times a week. Although for the month of dec it is 3 times a week until after break.

Sometimes size can be an issue, especially in the wet lab which is too small...but overall its not that big of a deal to me.

Bostonbryan and others could post their opinions on this.

Although i'm not really to sure about the actual clinic. I've been shadowing my 3rd year mentor (but not much) and have not really seen any problems yet...but if I do I will let you know.
 
Brocnizer2007 said:
In sim lab now there is 1 instructor for about 10 students. I never have a problem to get my work checked or asking for help. We have a ~130 seat bench lab and a ~110 seat sim lab. Our class is broken up into three groups of about 100 students. So you either have a morning, afternoon, or night lab session 4 times a week. Although for the month of dec it is 3 times a week until after break.

Sometimes size can be an issue, especially in the wet lab which is too small...but overall its not that big of a deal to me.

Bostonbryan and others could post their opinions on this.

Although i'm not really to sure about the actual clinic. I've been shadowing my 3rd year mentor (but not much) and have not really seen any problems yet...but if I do I will let you know.
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I guess I can chime in on the clinical side of NYU. The large class size doesn't seem to play a role b/c they split us up into 10 separate clinics. Each clinic has their own faculty of usually 3-4 generals, 1 endo, 1 prostho, 1 perio...so if you need a consult, you just flag one of those guys down. The biggest issue is actually waiting for faculty to sign you off and check off stuff. I've had patients waiting in my chair for 15 or so minutes. I'm presuming that this is the case for all schools tho.

Anyways, NYU has it's pros and cons. Didactically, I didn't care too much for, but clinically (which was why I came here), we see some of the craziest cases that I KNOW people in other schools don't see...only b/c it's NYC. Our school sees 1,000 patients a day! I have 24 patients on my roster...and I run away when I hear my manager asking for someone to volunteer to take more patients. Bottom line is, if you go to NYU, you'll get more clinical practice. We definitely have more requirements/competencies b/c we see more patients.

If you're thinking about specializing and worried about small class size, board scores, then go for Tufts. If you're more interested in a clinical aspect of dentistry, you can't go wrong w/ NYU. I'd be more than happy to post all our 3rd year clinical requirements so you can compare them to Tufts. HTH
 
I agree with everything Brocnizer says.


I have night lab sessions so my schedule is great because I am not a morning person. Basically, I get to sleep in 5 out of 7 days during a given week. Of course, outside lab time and studying isn't taken into consideration. So, I love the schedule, the school is ok(it's like a dental factory), and some of the faculty are helpful.... I would say 70/30 good to bad. I really don't worry about failing out, but it is always in the back of my head. My grades are nothing special. I am a 3.0 overall, but my grades so far this year are about 3.4. I haven't remediated anything, again so far, so I don't know how that whole thing works...only the rumor: fail 3=you can remediate, 4=go home and explain to your family why you suck. :scared:
 
tufts,

looked at both - tufts has smaller class, more prestigious
 
drPheta said:
Man, why does every thread where two or more schools are mentioned have to become a huge flame war.
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Becuase it is usually a stupid topic. I have no doubt that the OP wants to make an informed decision, but in all reality none of us can really help. We can state observations or further push our opinions, but that doesn't help much.

And hence, it dissolves into a flame war.
 
I'm deciding between these two schools as well. I feel the rep at Tufts is much better than at NYU but that NYU has a much larger patient pool. Which one matters most? I'm originally from NY, have family there, and love the city albeit Boston is good too. Which one will prepare me better? Does anyone have stats on how NYU does on the boards?
 
Brocnizer2007 said:
I'm spreading the word on the crap that is about to occur here

http://www.nyu.edu/provost/pdf/SOESACReportHealth.pdf
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I feel your pain! It stinks. College of Dentistry and Nursing! It's a joke. It's all politics! They're trying to get research fundings for the dental school. How low can u go. It would make much more sense if they combine School of Medicine and Nursing but Dentistry? bunch of crack heads.
I would transfer the hell out of there before my $250k diploma has Nursing in it.
 
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