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anyone have any idea how much help you get by applying to your state school? for example, my state school, maryland, says on the website that "in state students receive preferential treatment" but that sounds vague to me. any thoughts would be appreciated!
 
Basically, they admit all the resident applicants who aren't brain dead, incompetent, sociopathic or otherwise "unqualified", then they admit students from those states that have contracts with the school (states that don't have their own dental programs), and then residents from all other states.

Does this answer your question? 🙂
 
clp said:
anyone have any idea how much help you get by applying to your state school? for example, my state school, maryland, says on the website that "in state students receive preferential treatment" but that sounds vague to me. any thoughts would be appreciated!
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State schools are state funded therefore prefer to admit state residents over out of state residents. I believe that's all they're saying. Also, state students pay ALOT lower tuition.
 
thanks for the help so far. the reason i asked originally is basically out of major concern. many states, illinois for example, accept something like less than 1% out of state students. but i've heard that maryland appears to be more generous, accepting somewhere over 40% out ot state. that is good news for people not from here, but bad news for me. more thoughts on the matter would be appreciated.
 
Generallee said:
State schools are state funded therefore prefer to admit state residents over out of state residents. I believe that's all they're saying. Also, state students pay ALOT lower tuition.
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True.
clp said:
thanks for the help so far. the reason i asked originally is basically out of major concern. many states, illinois for example, accept something like less than 1% out of state students. but i've heard that maryland appears to be more generous, accepting somewhere over 40% out ot state. that is good news for people not from here, but bad news for me. more thoughts on the matter would be appreciated.
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I think reasons for that high percentage are that Maryland is a relatively small state in the country that has a state dental school to begin with, and I think the school might be restricting the number of MD residents so that they don't have too many dentists in a small state like Maryland. I really don't know why.

Anyways, if you have any questions about Maryland, feel free to PM me.
 
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