Pros and cons of Dental Schools

[sara25]

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Hey everyone,

I thought maybe this would be a good thread to talk about the different aspects of each school. It would be nice for us to share what we know about each school...what is good and bad.

I hope this will help. Here's my opinion:

1-UCLA- good reputation, but I was told by friend that they have problems with patients. There aren't enough. They have to pay 7 dollars for parking everytime they come.

2-LLU- In the middle of nowhere, but cheap tuition, and short program length.

3-USC- Good reputation....good patient load

I would like to know if anyone is familiar with schools in SF? I live in southern california, and would like to find out more about them.

I am still busy taking part 1 and 2. I plan on applying next year.
I would appreciate any feedback.

 

[Meggs]

Originally posted by sara25

1-UCLA- good reputation, but I was told by friend that they have problems with patients. There aren't enough. They have to pay 7 dollars for parking everytime they come.

2-LLU- In the middle of nowhere, but cheap tuition, and short program length.

3-USC- Good reputation....good patient load

Let me add

UCLA-- that's wayyyy too expensive for parking. In most private practices you get free parking (depends on location).

LLU--- Religion. They'll feed you adventistm trough every hole in your body. And most of your classmates will be adventists, but not all. And yes, you HAVE to take religion classes.

USC-- not a very nice neighborhood. The same goes to TEMPLE.

UOP--- expensive.

UCSF--- according to someone around here is the Indian Dental Program. I'm not Indian, not even close to it, so I'm not sure how confortable I'll feel. But I'll sure take it, if the allow me to.

NOVA---- probably the same as UCSF but with Latins. Nice weather.

NYU--- Expensive. Extremely diverse, so diverse it is almost no diversity at alllll. Great patient pool. PLUS, You get to live in Manhattan, I'll move there in a second!!

Marquette---- locate Wisconsin in a map and you'll see!! EDITED

UPenn and Columbia---- Ivy League schools, with all of its consequences.

BU---- you get to live in a great college town, with no many more dental schools, with translates into a better patient pool.

Case Western---- have you seen the pictures in its catalog?? State of the art dental clinics!!!

If I remember anything else I'll add to it. But remeber, a school in big city is most likely to have a good patient pool, than a suburb or town school. Southern CA has several schools, so patients distributes themselves better, no much choice for students.

 

[sara25]

Thanks Meggs. You are a great source of information. You sure seems to know your schools.

Did you apply to all those programs? Do you know which schools are the best in U.S.?

Thanks

 

[dentek2]

Hi meggs,
did you mean marquette is in Minnesota?It is in Wisconsin actually.Or is MN an abbreviation of something else?if so, I am sorry for correcting you🙂

 

[Meggs]

Originally posted by dentek2
Hi meggs,
did you mean marquette is in Minnesota?It is in Wisconsin actually.Or is MN an abbreviation of something else?if so, I am sorry for correcting you🙂

Sorry, sorry, sorry. My mistake. I meant to say Milwakee, which is in Wisconsin. Anyway, it means the same for the sake of weather. 😀

 

[Meggs]

Originally posted by sara25
Thanks Meggs. You are a great source of information. You sure seems to know your schools.

Did you apply to all those programs? Do you know which schools are the best in U.S.?

Thanks

I wish, but neither I'm a Rockefeller, nor I fulfill the requirements or meet deadlines of all of those schools I mentioned. 😀

In this application bussiness, one spends a lot of money and time. I'm an extremely diligent person, who won't take anyone word for anything, I only rely on first hand information. So anything that I can ask directly to the schools, I do. Otherwise I search the internet and SDN for it.

When I first found SDN, before posting questions, I read everysingle thread posted in past, since the beggining of the Int. Forum, which wasn't that old back then. Now it has too many in its archives. I usually try to read some threads in the pre-dental and dental forums, to keep me informed. After all, they are the ones who have years studying and reaserching schools in order to apply and get admitted. I barely started this process a few months ago. Even though their information doesn't apply directly to us, it sure guides us and serve for us to understand better what are schools looking for and how.

I do really advice to do a search on the all 3 dental forums for the info you need about CA schools. The other forums have ACTUAL dental students, who can tell you about their schools. While here in the Intl. Forum, only Henna (and maybe someone else) has stayed here after beign admited to school. Most of the former Intl. Forum members just leave after getting in schools, since they don't need the forum anymore.🙁 🙄

Good luck!

 

[shilpi]

hi meggs
does nova consider mainly latins?i applied there are my chances bleak....as it is eveywhere

 

[Meggs]

Originally posted by shilpi
hi meggs
does nova consider mainly latins?...

Oh no no, I'm sure they don't. Even if they wanted to, they couldn't, it's illegal. But still, the reason they have a high hispanic population is 'cause they're located in Florida, which has a very high hispanic population. More Hispanics apply, 'cause they're already setled there by the time they apply. That's all, don't panic. 😉

i applied there are my chances bleak....as it is eveywhere

Well, count me in. Now there's two of us. 😛

 

[Meggs]

I guess it's also of interest to know the number of seats available at each school, since it adds or takes from our decisions. You can fill in the blanks, if you want:

UCSF-- 24 seats or more.
Loma Linda-- 16, divided in 2 groups.
BU-- 60
UOP--- 16
UCLA--12
Marquette-- space based.
Stony Brook-- space based.
NOVA-- 1 spot guaranteed, the rest is space-based. But in 2003, 10 people entered.
All Texas schools--- space based
NYU-- 80 to 110
Case Western--
USC--
UPenn--
Columbia--
Creighton-- space based. None available for 2004.

 

[DDS_FIGHT]

I guess it's also of interest to know the number of seats available at each school, since it adds or takes from our decisions. You can fill in the blanks, if you want:

UCSF-- 24 seats or more.
Loma Linda-- 16, divided in 2 groups.
BU-- 60
UOP--- 16
UCLA--12
Marquette-- space based.
Stony Brook-- space based.
NOVA-- 1 spot guaranteed, the rest is space-based. But in 2003, 10 people entered.
All Texas schools--- space based
NYU--
Case Western-- Space based. None announced so far for this year
USC-- 32
UPenn-- 30 ( But last year they took 42 due to extra space available in reg batch)
Columbia--12

 

[Meggs]

Hey Henna

UCSF says they'll take around 24 people, but I just went to your class website, and there's only around 16 people in the picture. It's there only 16 of you? why?
http://www.ucsf.edu/ads/idp03.html

Thanks.

 

[maxin]

hi! meggs ,
i think they have recently increased the no. of seats!
i thank god for that.
maxin

 

[SiMpLy IrReSiStAbLe]

Upenn has increased the number of seats for this year too - to 40 i think

 

[freakymantra]

Hi everyone,

Iwould like to find out more about Tufts as all the other schools have been mentioned ,but nobody talks about Tufts , do people not apply there?or is it the fees that are v.expensive,Iwould appreciate if someone replies to my message.Thanks

Freakymantra

 

[sam3]

Hi Freaky....nice name
If search this form you will find a lot regarding Tuffts.Let me tell you about it.It is not that people do not apply ,check their requirments on their site.They need( part-1 =90+part-2=85+TOEFLE=250+....+....+.....) and they have only 14 seats I guess.It is very very....competitive.

 

[Meggs]

Originally posted by freakymantra
Hi everyone,

Iwould like to find out more about Tufts as all the other schools have been mentioned ,but nobody talks about Tufts , do people not apply there?or is it the fees that are v.expensive,Iwould appreciate if someone replies to my message.Thanks

Freakymantra

The thing is Tufts requires part 2, and they won't waive this requirement.

 

[Meggs]

Originally posted by meggs
Hey Henna

UCSF says they'll take around 24 people, but I just went to your class website, and there's only around 16 people in the picture. It's there only 16 of you? why?
http://www.ucsf.edu/ads/idp03.html

Thanks.

Actually, I think I got confused. IDP 2003 should be the GRADUATING class of 2003, not the entering class. Right? So I guess this isn't Henna's class. Forget the original post. 😳

 

[Meggs]

Originally posted by meggs
....BU---- you get to live in a great college town, with no many more dental schools, with translates into a better patient pool....

Actually, my mistake again. Boston also has Tufts dental school. And Harvard (but it won't take adv. stn.)

 

[sara25]

Meggs,

YOu are a great source of information. You seem to know a little about everything.

I took your advice and reviewed most of the posts. That was very helpful. Thanks for the suggestion.

 

[Laser]

Henna,

Was your class at UCSF the first one ever? On the caption for the picture (the once that Meggs had a link to), it said that it was the
Inaugural class....does that mean that it was the first IDP class for UCSF?

Are you in the picture?????? 😉

 

[Meggs]

Originally posted by Laser
Henna,

Was your class at UCSF the first one ever? On the caption for the picture (the once that Meggs had a link to), it said that it was the
Inaugural class....does that mean that it was the first IDP class for UCSF?

Are you in the picture?????? 😉

Laser, did you read my message about me confusing the dates?
I don't think that's her class.

 

[Meggs]

Originally posted by sara25
Meggs,

YOu are a great source of information. You seem to know a little about everything.

I took your advice and reviewed most of the posts. That was very helpful. Thanks for the suggestion.

See? It really helps to read the old discussions, 'cause it gets you oriented and gives you some idea of stuff that haven't been talked about recently. You're welcome. 😉