Well, this is quite interesting. I talked to DentGent13 earlier to clear some concerns I had with his post. I don't intend to sling mud and make this into a battle of meaningless posts (like the entirety of this website, some exceptions exist). Firstly, I wanted to post the actual review (redacted my name) so you can see that it is not as abbreviated and clumsy as DentGent13 had originally described. Secondly, I don't understand what is construed as propaganda and incoherence. My grammar was probably off and was definitely not Shakespeare-esque.
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These are the exact quotes. I only cared to add this so you can have some confidence in my advice. I know it's not what any of you pre-dents want. But, sometimes, you all have to listen to what is being told to you by those who have gone thru the process already.
Moreover, he only adds a bit of my prose without A) context and B) the entirety of the thread. I basically said race matters for these scholarships. You need to be of a race that is from an underprivileged/socioeconomically compromised area. in before claims of racism etc, look at youtube or NYUCD's site, they have a program specifically targeting students of this demographic for a weekend lab series to familiarize college students about dentistry and NYU's offerings.
Now, take this for whatever it is worth, but the person I texted was a very involved student in student affairs, one or two dental fraternities and a peer mentor. She's a very thoughtful and meticulous student now turned resident. She sacrificed a ton of time trying to help students meet grade requirements/challenge academic disciplinary issues if there were grounds to. I am not going to give the identity/prove these claims for the same reason.
Just please trust me.
Additionally, while I stated to the first individual I had intended to have disperse the advice I gave (which I stated was concise and apologized if it wasn't exactly the help they wanted. I had said in the thread I do not have the details or criterion for successfully obtaining the scholarship etc, but my advice was sincere in that the racial parameter is the first and most important determinant. That advice would, effectively, eliminate a lot of you.
And, while financial aptitude is the most important thing I preach to you all, having one less deadline to worry about is worth it for the 3 minutes it took to read my post. I apologized if I was seen as rambling/incoherent in the thread to the individual I messaged. I had many deadlines that are tremendously important to me and while it didn't take long to write that message, I was also not really worried about the optics.
I also have, despite some academic issues with didactic courses while I was injured, I have passed the boards, cdca, and gotten into 4 residency programs (GPR). I was also our ASDA president and the ambassador to the new york county dental society and went on to organized dentistry for our district. Some other crap too, but I believe the message is clear.
"Don't bother PMing him, his message is incoherent, irrelevant, and practically pointless propaganda."
I will Give DentGent13 the incoherent remark. It was definitely a hurried,frantic message for which I acknowledge and apologized. I had a deadline literally the next day for some legal issue and I had been waiting all day for the attorney to email the finished documents. Ended up coming in the next day, anyway. So, bear in mind I was not my most chill.
But irrelevant and pointless propaganda are just blatantly false. Are you going to believe someone who has no clue about the university or someone who has been there, been involved in the school's political/internal governing affairs and is involved with the ADPAC currently (can submit my contract or whatever email from Michael Graham), and is aware of a few cases regarding violation of civil rights act, title 4 and title 6 and the DOJ/DOE. Basically, a few schools are in some type of investigation brought on by both faculty and students for a multitude of reasons. NYUCD and Tufts (other private schools, too) are the biggest culprits of misusing funds for the purpose of promoting diversity thru giving these scholarships. This is not allowed by law. You can google the info; it's beyond the scope of this thread. Regardless, this is totally RELEVANT and NOT PROPAGANDA as the ADEA/CODA do an audit and tabulate the entire expenditures of each university (coding each with a separate ID to not reveal the identity). You can clearly tell from that data the amount of aid that goes per each race. Yes, race. they take racial bio-data (lawfully required) to determine the gender/race/year and a slew of other categories. It's more involved than this, but this kind of data helps certain governmental regulatory agencies that audit these institutions determine the scope of the situation. It is very complicated and something that has been worked on by some students/faculty/outside folk for some time. Also, it is at a few schools were these claims of federal funds abuse have been made. When you threaten a school's ability to maintain it's cash flow (remember how the university is able to fund students) you weaken it. This is why schools are draconian in their policy determinations and will be vicious in silencing anyone that dares challenge the status quo of these money-hungry deans.
How you can disagree with this claim, when the entirety of it suggests I am clearly helping you all in a realistic, financial sense for the scholarship issue and also by trying to actually do something for once to change the dynamic of this career/academic process. We complain and complain, but feel powerless because what is the best recourse? Well, a bunch of brave souls have attempted to try and do something, be it at tufts, nyu, penn, bu, uop, unlv or temple etc.
The thread I had with dentgent is more or less the same. I went into more detail here. Again, he or she was not disrespectful in our private message and I appreciate the individual's restraint in revealing the review with my name, though it would have displayed the entire and truthful initial message.
I apologized to the first fella who messaged me, jackmasterofall, and maybe he did not share the entire thread. I have no idea. but, maybe this game of telephone was messed up with sharing only a select section of my post. I assume he had the entire thread I sent jack, but again who knows why it happened, but it's best for the truth to be shared for all of us to profit. My reputation is restored, I hope, and incorrect/incomplete information is remedied.
I do hope you incoming d1s understand patience and respect the folk who try to message you here. Initially, I was a bit peeved with dentgent, but I am quick to calm. I wasn't in his/her situation when the posts were submitted, but I hope publicly correcting incorrect statements will serve you all.
The don't go to nyu part became part of the message, because, literally everyone tells you not to go to NYU. I am sure you all are aware of what's going on. Everyone from nyu who has posted here has either called the admin/university out for some scandalous behavior or lack of accommodation/clarity and leadership with the program. I personally know half the group practice directors leaving in bewteen my nine month medical leave in 2017 to 2018. A bunch of other more tenured/senior faculty were telling me to get out quick, and they were not joking. Again, this is just faculty on the clinic floor, but look at the exodus in leadership with both wolff and hershkowitz leaving. Hersh also got wrecked by the Dr. Park lawsuit against his racist hiring practices. I know a few students who are white (and one Indian girl) who were hired to full time faculty only after two years or directly from graduation (one person). This is against the policy for hiring which can be found in the attachments below if you want to read them. I attached all the ones I could find so no one can find a way to dismiss the claims I made about the full-time vs part-time hiring practices. Usually, if the top brass flees, you know something is to ensue. But, anyway, it's late. Good night all.