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navy and dental school
Started by axa5033
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Basically you have a few of options:
1. Apply to dental and the Navy HPSP scholarship. If you get the scholarship you get a 20,000 sign on bonus and they pay for all your tuition and fees for dental school and you make 2060 a month. In return you owe the Navy four years of service as a dentist.
2. Alternative program, cannot remember the name something like HPCP, where the Navy will not pay for dental school but you get paid as an E-5, with all the perks of being on active duty (medical, time in for retirement, etc.). This option might make more sense if you are going to a cheaper state school and or you plan on making the military a career.
3. Go ahead and do dental school then after join the Navy, def some larger bonuses here. But, if you are planning to go into the Navy anyway options 1 and 2 are much more attractive.
Basically you have a few of options:
1. Apply to dental and the Navy HPSP scholarship. If you get the scholarship you get a 20,000 sign on bonus and they pay for all your tuition and fees for dental school and you make 2060 a month. In return you owe the Navy four years of service as a dentist.
2. Alternative program, cannot remember the name something like HPCP, where the Navy will not pay for dental school but you get paid as an E-5, with all the perks of being on active duty (medical, time in for retirement, etc.). This option might make more sense if you are going to a cheaper state school and or you plan on making the military a career.
3. Go ahead and do dental school then after join the Navy, def some larger bonuses here. But, if you are planning to go into the Navy anyway options 1 and 2 are much more attractive.
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Only 4 years? I thought it would be 6-8
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NAVY DDS 2010
Both aRe correct depending on how you are looking at it. If you take four year scholarship, you will owe four years on active duty. But, no matter how long the scholarship is, the total time you owe the military is eight years combined either inactive duty, in the active reserves or the inactive ready reserves. Most people who do their three or four years of active duty time that they are required to pay back and get out chose to do the remaining four or five years in the inactive ready reserves (IRR). In the IRR, you pretty much do nothing during this time. So, it may sound bad that you owe eight years when taking the scholarship, but realistically you are only going to have to do three or four years of actual military work. The last I had heard, no dentist in the navy had ever been called up to active duty from the IRR involuntarily.
One of my roommates applied to the Navy during the 2nd year. They paid for his last 2 years, but had to stay in the Navy 6 years to "pay them back." My cousin ran out of money in his last year of med school. He applied to the Air Force. They paid his last year and he had to stay in the Air Force 5 years.
According to your other posts that was 30 years ago.
Military scholarships are a good deal for many dental students.
I personally would not trust a word this guy says. He has an archaic view (30 years ago) and an inherently negative one because he quit dental school in his 3rd year.
