School Decisions

[toothrun24]

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I would love to hear feedback from current students, past students, and anyone else!!

I am OOS for all of these and they all come out to be the same cost for me.

I am not sure if I want to specialize, but I know I want a great clinical experience, exposure to everything, and supportive faculty and community!

 

[JacquesVallee]

What will the total cost of attendance be roughly?

 

[toothrun24]

What will the total cost of attendance be roughly?

Creighton will be around 500K
Iowa will be around 490K
UNMC will be around 490K

I am from a WICHE state, however, so if I get WICHE 130K will come off my tuition. Creighton and UNMC both take WICHE-Iowa doesn't.

 

[JacquesVallee]

Creighton will be around 500K
Iowa will be around 490K
UNMC will be around 490K

I am from a WICHE state, however, so if I get WICHE 130K will come off my tuition. Creighton and UNMC both take WICHE-Iowa doesn't.

If you get WICHE then you definitely should go to one of the WICHE schools. 130k will save you a decade of payments. You can't really go wrong with UNMC or Creighton. Creighton will give you more clinical exposure since they don't have residency programs. However, UNMC has residency programs which can be a positive if you want to specialize since they often take their own students for specialties. I also believe UNMC is more research oriented than Creighton if that's your thing.

 

[macsak]

I would love to hear feedback from current students, past students, and anyone else!!

I am OOS for all of these and they all come out to be the same cost for me.

I am not sure if I want to specialize, but I know I want a great clinical experience, exposure to everything, and supportive faculty and community!

i admit i know nothing about unmc
but creighton is well known for clinical experience, and iowa has supportive faculty and community

which school is closer to your family/friends?
which school is closer to where you wish to work in the future?

 

[toothrun24]

i admit i know nothing about unmc
but creighton is well known for clinical experience, and iowa has supportive faculty and community

which school is closer to your family/friends?
which school is closer to where you wish to work in the future?

I appreciate the insight.

Creighton is the closest to where my friends and family are as well as were I want to practice someday. They don't have specialize though, however, I don't know if I want to specialize. Do you think not having the specialties hurts?

 

[Ryxndek]

I appreciate the insight.

Creighton is the closest to where my friends and family are as well as were I want to practice someday. They don't have specialize though, however, I don't know if I want to specialize. Do you think not having the specialties hurts?

It just makes getting letters of recommendation a bit harder. But not impossible. Creighton was my second choice, a great school clinically if you don’t end up wanting to specialize. I’d drop Iowa if you can’t get WICHE money, and figure out if you’d prefer a larger or smaller class size between Nebraska or Creighton.

Personally we have 105 here and at times feels very large and others very small. I think if we were closer to 75-80 students it would be just about perfect. But beggars can’t be choosers, but in your case they can be if that’s important. Being close to your support system will also be very beneficial to you. If family is closer to Creighton that would probably help. However Omaha and Lincoln aren’t that far apart.

 

[macsak]

I appreciate the insight.

Creighton is the closest to where my friends and family are as well as were I want to practice someday. They don't have specialize though, however, I don't know if I want to specialize. Do you think not having the specialties hurts?

not having specialties is a double edged sword
you get to do more complicated cases due to the lack of residents
but you cannot shadow/assist/get to know faculty in graduate programs to get letters of reference (yes, you will have specialty faculty at any dental school, but they are different from faculty that run a grad program)
and some schools give preference to students that went to their dental school

 

[JacquesVallee]

Do you think not having the specialties hurts?

It's nice to have if you want to specialize. If you don't want to specialize, you'll get to do less cool cases since the specialty programs will take them. My school had specialties and many of the cases got kicked to them. However, many of my classmates ended up at our school's specialty programs, even with less than stellar grades.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

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Thread 'University of Iowa (OOS), vs. UNMC (OOS), vs. Creighton (OOS)'

Dec 20, 2024

Hey Everyone,

I am trying to decide between three schools! I am OOS for all of them (I don't have a dental school in my state). I didn't receive any scholarships upfront from any of these schools. I am just wondering from current students and alum what they think of these schools and how they feel prepared in their education or not? I have heard University of Iowa is considered a top 10 dental school which I would assume means good things! UNMC has a small class size with a personal touch, and where I am from >90% of dentists graduated from Creighton and I heard they produce good...

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