is NYU more intense than the other schools?

[Tracy47]

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I know someone who's a first year at NYU, and he studies all the time: from 8 until mid-night...including weekends. Is that the norm in dental school? Maybe I have the false impression that getting easier dental schools = easier course work. By no means I'm saying NYU is easy to get in, but it's not one of the hardest schools to get into.

Any thoughts from current dental students?

 

[SFDMD]

I know someone who's a first year at NYU, and he studies all the time: from 8 until mid-night...including weekends. Is that the norm in dental school? Maybe I have the false impression that getting easier dental schools = easier course work. By no means I'm saying NYU is easy to get in, but it's not one of the hardest schools to get into.

Any thoughts from current dental students?

DENTAL SCHOOL IS HARD!!! One of my friends is a neurologist and her brother an endodontist, and she easily admits he had the more difficult program. We squeeze in all the same basic science/didactic in addition to dentistry classes. Conceptually, it is not "rocket science" but it is a "time managment disaster."

With all that said, I do study a lot a NYU. Some schools like to say their a CLINCAL SCHOOL (ie. Temple=low board scores), other research; however, NYU is in the business of making DOCTORS.

You can be a great technician with unrivaled preps, be a great surgeon, but if you fail to diagnose a squamous cell carcinoma.....well...you have failed your patient. I had experience at UOP and friends at UCSF, and I would say NYU is challenging, but their is a price to going to the only school that offers orthdontics (+invisalign) and IMPLANT DENTISTRY in the pre-doctoral program.

I was initially turned off by NYU becuase of RUMORS of "failing out." In my opinion...if you fail out of NYU, you did not try. The admin. set up extra tutoring sessions, weekend sessions, review, you name it...

OK...I will stop here...and I will close by saying I have worked and visited many schools, but I am glad I chose NYU. If you have questions I am more than happy to provide my down and dirty opinions....

 

[fightingspirit]

if it were not for the price tag, i would have totally considered it my first choice...but 300,000 is just too much...more than a quarter of a million 😱 with all its problems (cost, organization problems due to large class) NYU is a great dental school, not to mention its fantastic location. and to be honest, i also fear the onslaught of advanced standing students in thesecond year. those are gonna be MANY and with better skills...they'd kill my class rank. anyway, congrats to those who are attending NYU

 

[xxJuiceDxx]

For me, the price tag is a small price to pay for the overall experience you would gain by receiving your dental education at NYU.

And SFDMD is right. From what I gathered during my tour, the school is a very student friendly environment. Faculty have office hours for students and are more than happy to meet with students. What more would you need from professors if you're having difficultly handling a certain class?

Now I just gotta somehow find out a way to get in...

 

[1992Corolla]

and I would say NYU is challenging, but their is a price to going to the only school that offers orthdontics (+invisalign) and IMPLANT DENTISTRY in the pre-doctoral program.

Question:
NYU offers these things in the PRE-DOCTORAL program...ie undergrad? Or in the dental school curriculum? If you mean the curriculum you learn in dental school then:

Temple has the invisalign program now too...

link to invisalign article:
HERE

Other schools do implants and ortho in the dental school curriculum as well.

 

[adamlc18]

DENTAL SCHOOL IS HARD!!! One of my friends is a neurologist and her brother an endodontist, and she easily admits he had the more difficult program. We squeeze in all the same basic science/didactic in addition to dentistry classes. Conceptually, it is not "rocket science" but it is a "time managment disaster."

With all that said, I do study a lot a NYU. Some schools like to say their a CLINCAL SCHOOL (ie. Temple=low board scores), other research; however, NYU is in the business of making DOCTORS.

You can be a great technician with unrivaled preps, be a great surgeon, but if you fail to diagnose a squamous cell carcinoma.....well...you have failed your patient. I had experience at UOP and friends at UCSF, and I would say NYU is challenging, but their is a price to going to the only school that offers orthdontics (+invisalign) and IMPLANT DENTISTRY in the pre-doctoral program.

I was initially turned off by NYU becuase of RUMORS of "failing out." In my opinion...if you fail out of NYU, you did not try. The admin. set up extra tutoring sessions, weekend sessions, review, you name it...

OK...I will stop here...and I will close by saying I have worked and visited many schools, but I am glad I chose NYU. If you have questions I am more than happy to provide my down and dirty opinions....

NYU isn't the only school to have ortho and implants offered in the pre-doc program.

 

[SFDMD]

Question:
NYU offers these things in the PRE-DOCTORAL program...ie undergrad? Or in the dental school curriculum? If you mean the curriculum you learn in dental school then:

Temple has the invisalign program now too...

link to invisalign article:
HERE

Other schools do implants and ortho in the dental school curriculum as well.

First...the lingo: PG clinics--> Post Graduagte
PreDoctoral--> not PG
Now that we have pre and post worked out, Temple is a good place for some, but they have never (to date) had a class incorperate invisalign....maybe they are planning it....

I tend to follow the philosphy I will believe it when....To their credit, I did hear of one student getting to place an implant, but it is by no means in their cirriculum.

 

[Audio]

First...the lingo: PG clinics--> Post Graduagte
PreDoctoral--> not PG
Now that we have pre and post worked out, Temple is a good place for some, but they have never (to date) had a class incorperate invisalign....maybe they are planning it....

I tend to follow the philosphy I will believe it when....To their credit, I did hear of one student getting to place an implant, but it is by no means in their cirriculum.

No offence but, I hardly think you're in a position to put down Temple..you attend NYU!

Now, I'm sure NYU isn't as bad as most people claim. I'm sure you get a decent education and you can become a great dentist if you put in the effort. But let's be real here. It's NYU. You have no right to be knocking other programs. No one really does but, especially students from the most hated on dental school in the Western world.

Now, if you wanted to say NYU is a great school and you'd get a great education there, then I would join you and agree. But for you to start putting down other schools that are generally viewed as being a level above NYU is not cool. Being humble is the best way to go because for every person that says NYU is great, you can find 10 people who say it's filled with the least intelligent dental school rejects out there. (not my opinion)


And NYU is not the most intense school out there. Ask some of the students and if they're honest, they'll tell you that you can coast if you want. Now, I hear Tufts is pretty intense. I also hear Penn is intense as well. Apparently Penn averages more than an exam a week in 1st year (something like 58 in total).

 

[phremius]

Different people find dental school to be at varying levels of intensity.

I don't think it's that rough, and I know people who find it both easier and harder than I.

A lot of the whole oh dental school is soooo hard is just hype.