Ya, they said at IU that I didn't have enough credits taken at a university. I don't get it. They should have known that before they interviewed me and gotten my hopes up. I talked to Dr. K after and he explained everything to me and was very informative and helpful. I am still on the alternate list at two other schools. Like you said, it's the waiting that is such a killer.
Don't worry bro. I'm a current student here at IUSD, and it really sucks to be a student here. There is the PBL curriculum, which is not bad. But the triple jump exams are bad. You have to pass 3 triple jump exams in order to advance. Some of my friends have failed two triple jump exams, and some have failed retakes as well. The SABS (Science Apprach to Biological Science) modules are also ridiculous. The instructors throw questions at you as if you're a dog. We had 6 questions dealing with GI tract in one of our biweekly exam, and I only got 1 question correct. Now this is f--ked up.
Seriously guys, if you're from out-of-state, don't even waste your money coming here. Heck, my girlfriend who applied to dental school and got into IUSD, is not even going to come here. She's going to Pacific's dental school.
To you other prospective students. IUSD has old building. The lab is old, there is NOT enough manikins for all the 100 students in my class. The TV monitors are also old. Unlike the flat screen TVs I saw when I went to other dental schools for interviews.
This dental school is also not diverse. There's only a small handful of minority students, mostly Indians, and Asians. Some of the white students tend to have a chip on their should and think that they're hot sh_t because their father or uncle is an oral surgeon or a general dentist. They also tend to form their own social/drinking party groups as well. There were also times when the lab director or the lady working in the equipment office would give me the runarounds and treat me like a second-class student.
And like I've said, some of the professors (not all of them) tend to abuse the PBL curriculum as an excuse to toss questions and topics at us to learn ourselves, while they do their own research and have more free time. This in turn, makes you do the research, and hence when it comes exam time, you don't know what the correct answer is. Hence you get ****ty scores for your free-response questions if you write down the wrong researched answer.