Need Help Choosing Schools

[findingnemo]

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Hi! I realllly need help deciding which schools to apply to! My GPA is 3.7 and my DAT is 22, PAT 22. I would like to go to a school that prepares you well for practice (get enough patients to work on in your last two years), prepares you well for board exams, and professors are genuinely interested in teaching you and not in only criticizing/belittling you.

Here's a list of the schools I was considering:
Arizona
Columbia
Loma Linda
UOP
Stony Brook (my state school)
Temple
Tufts
Buffalo (state school)
UCLA
UCSF
Connecticut
UMDNJ
UPenn
USC

I want to apply to 2 or three california schools but im having a hard time narrowing down - will UOP prepare me in only 3 years??
Are the facilities and education at a private school significantly better than at a state school? I don't want to apply to more than 10 schools but I also dont want to limit my options.
Any information at all would be greatly appreciated!

 

[asalazar]

Hi! I realllly need help deciding which schools to apply to! My GPA is 3.7 and my DAT is 22, PAT 22. I would like to go to a school that prepares you well for practice (get enough patients to work on in your last two years), prepares you well for board exams, and professors are genuinely interested in teaching you and not in only criticizing/belittling you.

Here's a list of the schools I was considering:
Arizona
Columbia
Loma Linda
UOP
Stony Brook (my state school)
Temple
Tufts
Buffalo (state school)
UCLA
UCSF
Connecticut
UMDNJ
UPenn
USC

I want to apply to 2 or three california schools but im having a hard time narrowing down - will UOP prepare me in only 3 years??
Are the facilities and education at a private school significantly better than at a state school? I don't want to apply to more than 10 schools but I also dont want to limit my options.
Any information at all would be greatly appreciated!

If I was applying, and I had ur stats I would go w/ these 10 ...

Loma Linda
UMDNJ
UPenn
USC
Stonybrook
Tufts
buffalo
UCLA
UCSF
UConn

 

[J2AZ]

These are the schools I would go with.

Arizona (will probably have a great clinic, no specialty so see all patients, very supportive of families)

UOP (no specialty so see all patients, great city SF, very expensive 300K)

Creighton (no specialty so see all patients and very good didactic, reasonable cost 225K)

Stony Brook (its your state school)

Tufts (good didactic and clinical but expensive 280k -290K)

Buffalo (your state school with a great price tag)

UCSF (pass/fail so less stress no grades or class rank, very good didactic and good clinic)

UMDNJ (they give instate tuition to all)

Conneticut (close to home and they will get you into the specialty of your choice, Pass/Fail yet high stress b/c you take classes with med students)

Temple (good clinic yet students have told me that the didactic is not very strong)

Loma Linda (good clinic and didactic yet you will be going to a SDA school and will need a letter of rec from a clergy member)

In place of Loma Linda you may want to look at Marquette or Nova or maybe Louisville....

 

[reLAXgirl]

I loved UNC and Iowa. Both very good schools with strong research and also clinical experience. Top notch facilities, great patient base, and all the specialties. That means you have specialists teaching you the specialties (ie an endodontist teaches root canals, etc). Plus, tuition is very affordable (UNC instate tuition is easy to acquire and very cheap and Iowa gives all non-Iowans scholarships). Because they are competitive state schools you don't hear about them as much as you do other non-state or easier to get into schools. . .but, your stats are good enough I would give them a try.

 

[*Tooth*fairy*]

Hi! I realllly need help deciding which schools to apply to! My GPA is 3.7 and my DAT is 22, PAT 22. I would like to go to a school that prepares you well for practice (get enough patients to work on in your last two years), prepares you well for board exams, and professors are genuinely interested in teaching you and not in only criticizing/belittling you.

Here's a list of the schools I was considering:
Arizona
Columbia
Loma Linda
UOP
Stony Brook (my state school)
Temple
Tufts
Buffalo (state school)
UCLA
UCSF
Connecticut
UMDNJ
UPenn
USC

I want to apply to 2 or three california schools but im having a hard time narrowing down - will UOP prepare me in only 3 years??
Are the facilities and education at a private school significantly better than at a state school? I don't want to apply to more than 10 schools but I also dont want to limit my options.
Any information at all would be greatly appreciated!

Hi there, what is your Science GPA (it matters a lot to some schools)

 

[findingnemo]

hii thanks for your replies! my science gpa is a 3.5. i think i will apply to arizona, tufts, buffalo, uop, ucsf, upenn, iowa (maybeeee!), umdnj, and one more...but i dont know yet which.

how does this sound?