Dino_D said:
Well I hope everything checks out well and good then. Of course it won't say anything about a "requirement" to kick out 50+ people in their handbook as that would just be plain silly. There is such a thing as a bell curve though so even if you pass all your courses you could still be considered near the bottom of your class relative to everyone else. I'm not trying to rag on NYU or any particular school on purpose, I'm just trying to lookout for you guys. It would be interesting to see some actual stats on the number of students who make it from 1st to 2nd year at any school for that matter.
In my school we started with around 75. I can think of 3 students we lost due to poor academics. One was let go midway through 2nd year and the other two were released during 3rd year and these students were given multiple chances to get their grades up. As far as our school was concerned they did everything to help you finish dental school b/c it doesn't look good for them when they admit students who are incapable of completing all 4 years.
Yes NYU is so over-packed. Sit in the aisles?!!? HA! We should be so lucky, we have to stand and even then you have to be a strong alpha male martial arts expert to fight your way to a position that you can see the blackboard. That's why most of our kids just sleep in the lecture halls because they're afraid of losing their spots, here's an advice, bring a big personal waste bin because you won't be able to get up to the bathroom.
All of our professors are horrendous and don't teach at all. They come in, drop a textbook at the podium and say memorize every word in this and then leaves. Since there is only one singular copy of the book, a battle-royale melee ensues as everyone fights for it. So much blood is spilt and so many kids were trampled to death that the annual pilgrimage to Mecca seem like a ride at Disneyland. A lot of kids drop out because they can't handle these battle royales cage-style fights, most then go on to enter the Ultimate Fighting Championships which they always kick ass in since they had all that survival training here at NYU.
Our exams all have over 10000 questions each and not only that you have to wear a blindfold when taking them! They ran out of blindfolds for the biochem final so they started poking out the eyes of the students who arrived a bit later to ensure equal footing. On top of that you have to give all of your answers in Babylonian cuneiform so a lot of kids who aren't experts in that language automatically flunk. One exam they threw us a curve ball and told us to provide our answers in Etruscan.
Our labs have only 2 drills so once again it's a free for all. On top of that they don't provide you with typodonts to do your work on so you have to extract your own teeth and work on those. By the time the practical exams come the kids who've pulled out all their teeth will start to prey on those that still have a few remain so they can pass. Save your wisdom teeth my future colleagues!!
Oh and patients, the school have a policy of seeing only 1 patient per year because NYC is so desolated and depopulated. Fortunately, that one patient is some crazed homicidal maniac (cause this is NY) so a lot of your colleagues will be shot by him/her while trying to provide treatment; so if you're not front of the line don't worry. Try to be around the 12th person in line because most of the hand guns they do the shooting with hold 11 rounds....
I'm taking a big risk in letting you guys know the real secret. I'm avoiding the NYU Dental Gestapo and taking a great personal risk to send out this message...
Ok seriously:
There is no bell curve at NYU. Everything is straight forward points based. You get over 69.5% as your final grade, you pass. We lost a few kids from first semester, most of them left voluntarily because they realized dentistry wasn't for them or other personal problems, less than 5 were straight up asked to leave, and even so they were given the chance come back next year.
The average "do not pass on" rate at almost all dental schools is around 5% and has been forever.
As for the sitting in the aisles, well, not really, when EVERYONE in the class shows up (happens less than 1% of the days) a few kids sit in the aisles invariably because they come late and just choose to sit in the back rather than do the whole "excuse me, pardon my ass in your face" shimmy across people into middle seats. However, after the 1st week, about 1/2 of the class simply stop showing up since we have a transcription service and they realize that passing is ridiculously easy.
Now stop asking stupid stupid questions.
They said it was sent out last Monday. My first thought was, Oh my God! REJECTION LETTER!!! Then I read in this forum that some are getting interview invites via snail mail! I am going out of my mind here! Here's hoping it's an interview!!!
