Ranking of DS-Repeating 1st Year/Withdrawls

[doc toothache]

The information recently published by the ADA is invaluable for anyone who is serious about applying to ds. The listing of number of students repeating the first year is exceedingly important since it may shed some light on the selection criteria, the degree of difficulty of the program and number of possible available slots for transfer/international students. While the attrition rate appears to be relatively low (~4 %) it may be difficult to assess since it is unclear how the numbers are taken into account. For example, for the class of 2006 the calculated outcome for class of 2006 is shown to have graduated 95.5% (4,208) of the 4,404 full and part-time students who enrolled at the beginning of the program in the fall of 2002. The number for the incoming class is noted to exclude transfer students, all graduates of an international dental program admitted to advanced standing and any repeating student (full or part time) who were not expected to graduate in 2006. What is not clear is whether the same can be claimed for the number of those who completed the program. The assessment also shows 94.2% as passing the clinical licensure exams and 90.6% as being in "dental related activity".

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[Aceofspades]

Very interesting. Everyone on SDN mentions rumors about how NYU drops students left and right so the information here is refreshing. They have a 2.43% rate which is pretty good, especially for such a large class. Only Meharry, UMDNJ, Howard, UConn, and Puerto Rico have rates higher than 4%. Overall these numbers are good, but I fear they are being unreported because of the number of blank cells. Some schools didn't report their numbers at all!