Pros and cons for both NYU and Temple please

[koogrl]

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Could you guys please tell me the pros and cons for both NYU and Temple dental schools? I have a Temple interview end of this month and NYU interview end of March, and was wondering if I should even go to the Temple interview...I know NYU's class is huge and the school and area are expensive. Temple is in a horrible area......can you guys tell me both the educational and clinical aspects of both schools? Thanks guys. Feel free to PM me as well.



Sylvia

 

[wise146]

What can be a bigger con for NYU than 77K/year

 

[blankguy]

Originally posted by wise146
What can be a bigger con for NYU than 77K/year

What?? A con job to get by that $77K/year??😱

 

[3rdMolarRoller]

Not very often, but sometimes the size of the class gets annoying. For instance, when they hand out papers. Imagine 260 bodies getting their papers returned to them one at a time.

The lectures cover a lot of material in a very short time. Most science classes are on 7 week blocks. The advantage to this is that you get to concentrate on a few core classes at a time vs many.

My locker is in the sub-level and the bench lab is on the 11th floor. I hate it when I forget something bec it takes 10 min to get my stuff.

Exams are taken in a lecture hall that does not have a place to write on so they handout white boards.

Other then these few little things I love it here!

 

[Rezdawg]

Brocnizer, ever heard of Dr. Hittelman? He handed me a tough interview.

 

[3rdMolarRoller]

Yup. He's a really cool guy.

You have nothing to worry about. It might seem tough but really you were being analyzed by a psychologist. I had my interview with him also.

He wants to make sure you know what you are getting into by coming to this school. If you come here you will have a few classes with him and he helps out on the clinic floor to calm down pateints. The man is very smart.

When was your interview?

 

[Rezdawg]

I had the interview this last Friday. Im not confident about it at all. The whole session was basically comprised of him telling me that Im not ready for dental school. Oh well, I did what I could and we'll see soon enough about the final decision. I was impressed with the school and would not mind the price tag that is associated with it.

 

[3rdMolarRoller]

You should have told me you were coming. I passed you guys on the way to the 11th floor...you all were standing in front of the Admissions office. Then you guys stood right next to me while I was drilling away on some teeth. Do you remember the purple rubber dam's and all the floss going everywhere???

I hate that damn floss on those clamps!

 

[3rdMolarRoller]

Pros:
- 300,000+ patient visits a year
- Very diverse patient pool
- Only school that students will be invisalign certified
- Will be given Kaplan class for free before boards
- Tons of research opportunity
- Lots of new technology
- New library
- NYU medical center 5 min up the street and VA hospital across the street (get to see some really cool cases)
- Only dental school with hospital beds for overnight stays on serious cases
- Dean is changing a lot to make sure student's are happy
- Dean is pumping in lots of $$$ to renovate the school
- Recent accreditation was outstanding: ZERO recommendations and 25 commendations. Only 1/3 of schools in the past few years have achieved this

 

[Dr.BadVibes]

Hey Reza,

I remember reading in past threads about how everyone hated your interviewer because he was so hardcore, but if I remember correctly, everyone still got in! I hope it happens for you bud! Any word from Houston?

 

[Rezdawg]

Brocnizer, I remember standing in front of the admissions office and seeing dental students there, but I dont remember the floss in the classroom...I think I was still in shock and re-reviewing the answers I gave during the interview.

Avingupta, I got roughed up a bit during the interview, but if I get any other interview, I will definitely be as prepared as possible after going through that. The only positive I got out of the whole thing is that at the end of the interview, he told me to submit a photograph of myself. Im not sure if this is required by all applicants or if its only required by students that are admitted. So, that could possibly be a clue. I will let you all know as soon as word arrives. About Houston, no word from them. I called and they basically said that my name is being tossed into the next round, so I will have to wait longer.

 

[SillyRabbit]

I've heard good things about temple even though i didn't apply there. Since the clinical education at both is supposed to be really great, you should go with the cheaper one.

 

[mr.fat_chops]

Originally posted by Rezdawg
Brocnizer, ever heard of Dr. Hittelman? He handed me a tough interview.

you got a pm in your box...

 

[mr.fat_chops]

for rez', i mean...

 

[Rezdawg]

mr. fatchops, my box is empty.

 

[mr.fat_chops]

ok... i tried again, see if ya got something, now.

 

[gryffindor]

I just walked in the door today at 12:45am. I was at school & in clinic from 7:45am till 5:30 pm, and spent from 6 pm till 12:30 am doing lots of labwork and I'm only about 50% done. I will be doing similar hours tomorrow to stay afloat and graduate on time. (I am at SUNY Buffalo.)

On that note, I know Temple's students do A LOT more labwork that we do at Buffalo - a bunch of us seniors were discussing labwork at a post-grad interview. If their patient needs a crown, they have to wax up and cast their own gold crowns and wax up and do the metal framework cutback for their porcelain-fused-metal crowns. That is TOO MUCH to be doing when you're up in clinic. We did these activities as second year students on our mannequins and that is plenty of experience to get a feel for how it works on the real patient and to appreciate what the lab tech does. There is no need to continue waxing up and casting gold crowns for your patients except that it saves the school a whole lot of money since the poor student is doing all the scut work that you usually pay the lab tech to do. When you get to senior year like me, you will be cursing fixed if you are in this scenario no matter how much you love waxing. I like doing wax-ups, I'm not joking. However, any extra time spent at school doing labwork is time spent away from my bed watching TV and sleeping, no matter how cool labwork sounds when you are a pre-dent.

So that would be a con for Temple. To balance it, the pro for NYU would be that there is minimal lab work once you get to clinic, from what I have read here on SDN. (Someone please correct me if I'm way wrong.)

 

[Dr.BadVibes]

your right Griffin...the biggest con about Temple is the fact that students have to do their own labwork.....BIG turnoff!

 

[Jessicasmiles]

Temple, from a visit I made there, was in a very dodgy area. I'm sure the education is probably great at both places however.

Jess

 

[UBTom]

From what my sister tells me, it is a common practice for the students to hire out the labwork (!) at NYU. The faculty would not approve if they found out of course, but NYU does have a philosophy of minimal labwork because most dentists in real life rarely do their own labwork anyway.

My sister was one of the few who did not hire out her labwork because she wanted to save some money.

Tonight, I have a full-denture case which I need to set teeth into the trial-base wax rims for. It's going to take me about 8 hours and I find myself envying the NYU students. If there is one procedure in dentistry that I dread, it's setting teeth for removable. 😛