Iowa vs. Case western

[cloverfield]

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If anyone has attended or is attending Iowa or Case, could you share your experience as a dental student? Any pros and cons? I'm an OOS for Iowa and am trying to choose between the two schools. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!

 

[DentalTrain]

Both are good schools. Case definitely has the advantage since you are OOS for Iowa in that it will be cheaper and Iowa has some problems filling their chairs, not as bad as Nova, but it is still a big issue at the school. Clinic therefore is more comprehensive at Case.

 

[sketo43]

Are you sure that Iowa has a problem filling chairs? When I interviewed there, a student said there are so many patients that new patients have to be put on a waiting list. If you have experience at the school, you may be right, but your statement is very different from what I have heard.

As for cost, tuition + fees at both schools is around $50k/year (Iowa doesn't give cost of living on the website)

http://www.dentistry.uiowa.edu/missions/education/projected_expenses2009-10.shtml

http://dental.case.edu/dmd/finaid.html

 

[kingbee888]

They should've told you at the interview. They gave me a sheet with a break down of tuition and cost of living for the 4 years at my interview:
(OOS)
-D1:
tuition and fees: 50,397
+ Room and Board, personal, transportation=79,496.50

-D2
T&F: 47,397
+ R, B, P, T=71,267

-D3
T&F: 47,397
+ R, B, P, T=68,731

-D4
T&F: 44,127
+ R, B, P, T=65,216

I was also told that these numbers is what the gov't goes by in determining aid and loans for both tuition and living expenses.

 

[yuppers]

Tough choice...
Case is more clinically focused, you get your own chair in the 4th year, and they have a nice sim lab. So those were all big pluses for me. But Case's hybrid curriculum didn't appeal to me, and the surrounding neighborhood is terrible... students told me of some car break-ins.
Iowa is really didn't stick out for me but it is cheaper though.

 

[yuppers]

Both are good schools. Case definitely has the advantage since you are OOS for Iowa in that it will be cheaper and Iowa has some problems filling their chairs, not as bad as Nova, but it is still a big issue at the school. Clinic therefore is more comprehensive at Case.

Nova has problems filling chairs... that's funny because most negative remarks on sdn about Nova refer to the students fighting over chairs in which to treat patients.
Nova has a wait list for patients so there is no problem filling chairs. The problem is the lack of chairs which the school is attempting to solve by the opening of two off-site clinics and more externships.

 

[GPR2B]

Nova has problems filling chairs... that's funny because most negative remarks on sdn about Nova refer to the students fighting over chairs in which to treat patients.
Nova has a wait list for patients so there is no problem filling chairs. The problem is the lack of chairs which the school is attempting to solve by the opening of two off-site clinics and more externships.

Nova has no problem at all filling chairs since they have a 4-6 month wait list to become a patient there. The problem with Nova is that there are too many STUDENTS and not enough chairs.