hey,
i went UMDNJ's GSBS b/c i messed up during undergrad and finished w/ a B-...
talked to the dean of admissions there and told me if i go and get B's i would get in NJDS... so i enrolled there...
finished up my last classes last week so i guess i can add the Msc to my last name now...
the program-- ur gonna be taking dental physio and dental biochem for sure since ur pre-dental... those classes are w/ the first year NJDS students...the teachers are good, always responded to any question i had really quickly... in my experience, the dental students kept to themselves... never talked to the grad students in the class and when I asked some of them if they had old exams for physio to help me study (my cousin who graduated from there told me there's always old exams floating around), they told me they didnt have them...
those 2 classes and a seminar are the only required classes... then theres a bunch of other classes u can take... i stuck with as many classes that dental students would take, ex- i took histology, immunology, pharmacology, neuroscience...
i would recommend taking the dental physio class and the histology class together since they're related and a lot of times the physio teachers mention histology stuff...
it is a good program overall, but dont expect it to really make a difference with NJDS when u apply again... lilke i said, the dean told me to get B's in my classes and i would get in... well, i just graduated from there with close to a B+ avg (3.4) and have a 21AA/20TS/21PAT as well as letters of recs from teachers that teach both at the graduate school and dental school... when i met with the dean again (not an interview) in oct for this cycle, I was basically given the run around (NJDS is so much more competitive now than it was when i first talked to him in spring '04 and he'll TRY to get me an interview to state my case)... i havent heard a single word from there since that meeting...
if u got any questions regarding classes, just reply and i'll get back to u and good luck...