Made it to Graduation???

[xmen]

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I would like to know, " How many friends you started with at the beginning of the year at your dental school are actually graduating with you or are still with you in your second, third and forth years????"

 

[12YearOldKid]

We only lost one in my class and she was a hopeless case. Constant cheating and still couldn't pass. They let her repeat first year, but she ended up failing again and getting the boot for good.

It's gotta suck to be in debt to the tune of $50,000+ and waiting tables for a living. Ouch.

 

[QTpieDMD]

I'm going into my second year. The first semester we lost two students. The first one after our first set of exams and the second one after the first semester. One just got engaged, the other decided to go for med school instead. Then after our first year we lost many more. We had 6 people that had to repeat the year. Then we had about 3 more people leave (I don't know if they got the boot or if it was by choice). Total 11 (maybe 12 if i'm wrong) leave from my first year. Hopefully there won't be any more.

 

[toofache32]

My class started with 87 and we graduated with 76. We lost 2-3 to the class below us when they had to repeat the first year. We picked up at least 3 our second year that were repeating from the class above us. 2 of those failed the second year again. We picked up a chick who was repeating the 3rd year. They never should have graduated her, but she did graduate with our class.

One guy quit 4 weeks into the first year because his girlfriend lived 2 hours away and he was driving back to see her many nights and every weekend...couldn't cut it. *******. There ain't no poon worth losing your career and livelihood over. Poon is poon.

 

[lnn2]

There ain't no poon worth losing your career and livelihood over. Poon is poon.

Words from a wise man!
True dat!

 

[Dr.BadVibes]

There ain't no poon worth losing your career and livelihood over. Poon is poon.

HAHAHHAH.....so true

 

[gryffindor]

We started with 90 and graduated 90, but not the same group 90. We lost a few to the year below us, lost a few to Canadian school tranfers, picked up a few internationals, and picked up a few bonus people from the class ahead of us.

 

[jpollei]

My class at UNC ('06) began 79, and lost one the first semester when she realized about 4 weeks into class that dentistry wasn't for her. Since, the remaining 78 are still going, all planning to graduate this coming May. I know the 3rd and 3nd year classes here have had very low drop-out/turnover rates, too.

 

[xmen]

Thanks guys... Keep it coming... Looking to find a school who is vested in thier students, and not money........ What schools do you all attend?????

 

[Midoc]

Thanks guys... Keep it coming... Looking to find a school who is vested in thier students, and not money........ What schools do you all attend?????

A school that drops students for cheating and incompetetance is acting in everyone's best interest. I for one do not want to have colleagues who only made it through school because the school would not kick them out. And for the record, you have it backwards. A school that is interested in money will not kick students out, they'll just let the student continue to repeat years and stay on longer.

 

[xmen]

Micdoc......

I do agree.. I don't believe in a second chance for cheaters and incomp.. But...... there are many schools who over except and drop students by weeding them out before graduation. Weeding out because they know they over excepted and don't have enough room for them in clinics... I know a few dentists who are phenomical, but made the wrong choice initially and eventually went on to another school and was in the top of their class.... The cirriculum, faculty and administration is everything....

 

[Dental08?09]

Micdoc......

I do agree.. I don't believe in a second chance for cheaters and incomp.. But...... there are many schools who over except and drop students by weeding them out before graduation. Weeding out because they know they over excepted and don't have enough room for them in clinics... I know a few dentists who are phenomical, but made the wrong choice initially and eventually went on to another school and was in the top of their class.... The cirriculum, faculty and administration is everything....

You mean "accpet" and "accepted", right?

 

[12YearOldKid]

You mean "accpet" and "accepted", right?

No, he means "accept". Give the guy a break.

 

[12YearOldKid]

We have one girl at my school who was supposed to graduate in 2002 or 2003 -- can't remember which -- but she is still in the clinic trying to graduate. I swear I am not making this up.

I don't know what the school is thinking letting her hang around so long. What's scary is that one day she's probably going to get out and be working WITHOUT supervision.

 

[Richnator]

We have one girl at my school who was supposed to graduate in 2002 or 2003 -- can't remember which -- but she is still in the clinic trying to graduate. I swear I am not making this up.

I don't know what the school is thinking letting her hang around so long. What's scary is that one day she's probably going to get out and be working WITHOUT supervision.

OMG, that is freaking scary.

 

[hockeydentist]

OMG, that is freaking scary.

just wanted to know of these people who are either repeating or failing, is it due to lack of academic training or they just didn't belong in dental school to begin with.

This is open to everyone!

 

[toofache32]

... Looking to find a school who is vested in thier students, and not money....

Yeah, that's gonna happen.....and I'm looking to find a virgin in Las Vegas.

 

[toofache32]

We have one girl at my school who was supposed to graduate in 2002 or 2003 -- can't remember which -- but she is still in the clinic trying to graduate. I swear I am not making this up.

I don't know what the school is thinking letting her hang around so long. What's scary is that one day she's probably going to get out and be working WITHOUT supervision.

This may be a different situation. Repeating a year is entirely different from not getting your requirements completed on time. About 5-10% of each class at my school graduated late because they couldn't get their requirements finished on time. And this generally has nothing to do with how good or bad of a student you are....it depends on things out of your control, like whether or not your patients tend to show up. Each patient who doesn't show up wastes your day and puts you another day closer (or past) graduation day to finish your requirements.

I was assigned worthless patients throughout my 3rd and 4th years. I finished my requirements with one day remaining in clinic before graduation...talk about a tight sphincter. And it's not because I was a ******* slacker (which I was). I was in the top 5 of my class and had board scores in the 90s, and I almost ended up in that situation.

 

[shariq]

We at NYU started with about 370 students going into the second year(about a 100 advance standing students joined us). By the time graduation came around we were at 320.

And of those 5o students only five repeated. Most were kicked out in the second year-most failed four classes and were not given the option to repeat.

YOu cannot imagine how much i thanked God when i received my diploma in the mail. 😀

 

[aphistis]

We have one girl at my school who was supposed to graduate in 2002 or 2003 -- can't remember which -- but she is still in the clinic trying to graduate. I swear I am not making this up.

I don't know what the school is thinking letting her hang around so long. What's scary is that one day she's probably going to get out and be working WITHOUT supervision.

Yeah, we've got a 5th-year sophomore at IUSD. I'm not going to comment on her circumstances and how legit they may or may not be, but she started dental school when my classmates & I were sophomores in college, and now we're further along than she is.