NYU question - 10% kicked out after first year

[Tikamutt]

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Hello there fellow predents!
Hope you're all doing well! Congrats to those of you with interviews and good luck to those that are still trying....no worries, be positive!

I read on the interview feedback that NYU kicks out 10 - 20% of their class after the first year. I haven't read that anywhere. Is this correct?

If so, where can I read more about this?

Thanks everyone! 😉

 

[apaul]

that would stink

 

[Tikamutt]

yeah, no kidding...i'm sick of trying to beat the person sitting next to me. 🙁

 

[OSUDDS]

I doubt it. Unless they fail out. I wonder if a lot of people transfer out.

 

[DDSY]

Yep, that's what I heard. They weed out students

 

[dent1021]

I have a friend at columbia who told me that there are less seats available in 2nd year compared to first year.

How's that for pressure.

 

[apaul]

that reminds me, that was another thing I liked about AZ. The dean told us that you would have to try to fail out of their school. When some weird circumstance pops up, they'll work with you to figure something out and wont just kick you to the curb

 

[dentist2b7007]

no it's not true....it's just a myth...they don't boot you out. it's actually student's fault. either they can't keep their grades up, decide they don't like dental school, get married or have kids. a lot of factors play into it. they just don't kick you out

 

[DDSY]

I personally know students from NYU. I know that their curriculum is rigorous. Yes, you could say that it is the students' fault or that there are extraneous circumstances that lead them to leave the dental school. However, the class size does shrink significantly.

 

[purduephigam]

you have to realize that dental schools are investing in you as well. so they truly want you to graduate. more alum = more money. they will help you where they can, but it's ultimately up to the student to want to succeed

 

[abzirian]

I asked this at my interview, and the D4 student says that while it does happen, its pretty hard to fail out. He said it was more like 10 people that drop out (out of 330 students), more due to family issues than anything else.

 

[Mask667]

Oh I am glad you said that it is the student's fault, because I am kinda scared of going to dental school, but a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.

Mask667

 

[DDSY]

Yep, dental school is no cakewalk, but I don't think it is rocket science either. As long as you put in the work, you should do fine.

 

[fajitapita]

Dr. Mejia (director of admissions) openly discussed this rumor with us at the interview. It's just not true, it costs them too much money to do that. But yes, if you can not hack it, then they will boot you out if you continue to fail. They will let you remediate a class or whatever, but if you continue to do poorly, then you're outta luck. It's a tough way to go out.

 

[pudge123]

I have a friend at columbia who told me that there are less seats available in 2nd year compared to first year.

How's that for pressure.

I think your friend just heard a rumor. If that was the case then where would they put all of the international students that come in 2nd year. So the class doesn't actually shrink it almost doubles. What I was also told from older students was that kids that live usually are too distracted, have family, get married or just are plain ol' homesick. Lets be real, I'm pretty sure any dental school will be hard, and if you dont put in the work then you wil fail out.

BTW, i have a best friend from UCLA who heard from his friend's friend that his friend slept with Paris Hilton and Jessica Simpson in the same night. Must be true. 😀

 

[PChemGrad]

no it's not true....it's just a myth...they don't boot you out. it's actually student's fault. either they can't keep their grades up, decide they don't like dental school, get married or have kids. a lot of factors play into it. they just don't kick you out

I would have to agree with this.
You need to realize that the Adcoms won’t choose more people for the class to only drop them from the program. You are an investment to the school; you are paying the professors salaries, and use of the facilities. For every person that drops out after the first year, the school stands to loose somewhere in the area of $100k. Then they would miss the possible donations that Alum. make once they are rolling in the bank. So they wouldn’t want to purposely kick you out, you are the one that determines if you are getting kicked out or not. Dental school is a business to the university, and if it makes money they will keep it around, and if it looses money they will close it (which does happen). This is the same thing for Med and Law schools. You are a customer they are the business and they want your money.

 

[egots]

the entering class for DDS 2007...had an extra 20-30 students, at the start of the program they offered any student from that class a discounted tuition for the following year if they would delay the start of dental school...if there is any NYU student in that class on this forum u can refute that if im wrong but i knwo im not...the thing is for those student who struggled or had any difficulties personal or what not..the school turned a deaf ear and stuck to its policy of 3 failures and you got to a review board, well those that normally had this problem the school would do anything within their power to help them and they would, but there was a few years where the # of students in the class was way to high so they in a sense "failed" students out by not helping those who struggled...at the same time some ppl claimed they purposely made things more difficult b/c in previous years before over attendance the number of students that went to that review board for failures was not nearly the same...and that was 3 failed courses/labs in a one year time span...

by some chance they had this policy for a couple/few years where this happened...im not so sure what the situation is there now...but i didnt even bother to apply i have pretty good stats just knowing the truth that some students in a sense were fuked over never sat well with me...so in reality it was not a rumor

 

[ruth11]

yea this is true....so don't apply there...and don't go to your interview there.....


😀

 

[DDSY]

yea this is true....so don't apply there...and don't go to your interview there.....


😀

Hahahahahahaha. NYU does have its advantages. . . like being in one of, if not, the liveliest city in the world: I'm talking about the best restaurants, the city that never sleeps, Broadway, etc. etc.

 

[ecuajedi]

Sorry the city that never sleeps would be Las Vegas

 

[jlo26]

Hey everyone, im currently a D1 at NYU. This kicking out students is really gone or non existant anymore. The class of 2007 had 260 ish students back when they started first year, and thats when they had to shrink the class back to 230 ish, so alot of ppl did drop bc the school, but back then the administrative people weren't as good and thats why dean alfano in the past few years changed alot of things about the program. I can tell you from my perspective that I think its impossible to fail out of NYU unless if u really dont study and party every night, the school is great really, i dont regret for choosing to come to NYU over other schools and alot of my classmates dont either. The resources given to you during school are more than u could ask for, such as all the various waxing practical tutorials, anatomy tutorials, exam tutorials....Trust me NYU is not the school it was for the class of 2007, I really enjoy it here and I am not just saying that just to promote the school because it has no effect on me on who comes here next year.

 

[xylashellx]

my brother went to nyu and he said everyone who got "kicked out" basically failed out and it was all their own faults.

 

[ArmoredTooth]

Hello there fellow predents!
Hope you're all doing well! Congrats to those of you with interviews and good luck to those that are still trying....no worries, be positive!

I read on the interview feedback that NYU kicks out 10 - 20% of their class after the first year. I haven't read that anywhere. Is this correct?

If so, where can I read more about this?

Thanks everyone! 😉

That's correct tika. NYU accepts around 300 students for their incoming class.

Every year they cut 10% of their class until the end of the third year. That's when the "storm" dissipates.

Going to NYU's dental school is like trying to work for Donald Trump. If you don't make the cut, "you're fired."

I'd hate to go to a dental school like NYU where you get dropped from their program, and guess what? You have $$$$$$$$ to pay back even if they kick you out of their program! 👎

 

[egots]

my brother went to nyu and he said everyone who got "kicked out" basically failed out and it was all their own faults.

yea im sure your brother knew everyone in that class of 300 personally to know what their situations were