Schools with highest Specialty placement

[Upenn08]

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Which schools are the top schools for specialty placement?

my guess would be

Tier 1 : Harvard, Columbia, UConn, StonyBrook, UCLA

Tier 2: UPenn, UCSF

Tier 3 : Michigan

Tier 4 : The rest.


Thoughts?

 

[DrReo]

Which schools are the top schools are specialty placement?

my guess would be

Tier 1 : Harvard, Columbia, UConn, StonyBrook, UCLA

Tier 2: UPenn, UCSF

Tier 3 : Michigan

Tier 4 : The rest.


Thoughts?

Howard

 

[PDizzle]

As long as you fully understand that the spec rate for your school has practically nothing to do with weather you match or not, feel free to explore this question.

 

[AfgDental]

Based on my conversation with Dean of admission at VCU, he said that nearly 90-100% of the students who applied to a residency got it. I think last year 48-49 of 50 got it...😀

 

[Upenn08]

As long as you fully understand that the spec rate for your school has practically nothing to do with weather you match or not, feel free to explore this question.

I don't think it has "nothing" to do.

But you are free to feel so.

 

[DrReo]

I don't think it has "nothing" to do.

But you are free to feel so.

Board scores and grades are pretty much up to you, buddy.

 

[gryffindor]

I don't think it has "nothing" to do.

But you are free to feel so.

Um yeah, it does have nothing to do. The choice to specialize or not is entirely your choice, a personal decision, and has nothing to do with the people around you.

 

[PDizzle]

I don't think it has "nothing" to do.

But you are free to feel so.

You missed the "practically" part of my comment 🙂

Talking to many, many people who matched, it's grades(if you're not in P/F) and your NBDE#1 score. Research, LOR's and community service take a distant back seat to the mentioned, "top 2".

The school you came from doesn't have very much to do with it at all. That's why the ultimate equalizer, the NBDE#1, is weighed so heavily.

 

[Jake8]

I vote for the school which you will get a 4.0 and a 99 on the NBDE 1. Which school? That's up to you.

 

[wigglytooth]

Based on my conversation with Dean of admission at VCU, he said that nearly 90-100% of the students who applied to a residency got it. I think last year 48-49 of 50 got it...😀

This is prob for gpr programs as well (and probably the bulk). Be wary of the stats adcoms throw out at you; ask for the breakdown percentages for each type of specialty/residency program.

 

[armorshell]

This is prob for gpr programs as well (and probably the bulk). Be wary of the stats adcoms throw out at you; ask for the breakdown percentages for each type of specialty/residency program.

I find it so funny that universally every administrator at every program tosses all the GP residencies into their "rate" stat.

 

[armorshell]

Which schools are the top schools for specialty placement?

my guess would be

Tier 1 : Harvard, Columbia, UConn, StonyBrook, UCLA

Tier 2: UPenn, UCSF

Tier 3 : Michigan

Tier 4 : The rest.


Thoughts?

The rigor of your experimental method intrigues me. How did you come about to this conclusion?

What's that? You picked several programs based completely on your highly subjective, pre-dental understanding of how dental specialty admissions works, combined it with a little elitism and more or less randomly assorted them into tiers?

Fascinating.

 

[sarah_bellum]

Which schools are the top schools for specialty placement?

my guess would be

Tier 1 : Harvard, Columbia, UConn, StonyBrook, UCLA

Tier 2: UPenn, UCSF

Tier 3 : Michigan

Tier 4 : The rest.


Thoughts?

I nominate this post for the coveted "POST OF THE YEAR" award.

Please note my extremely non-sarcastic capitalization.

 

[nydds25]

Well to be honest to the OP, even though specialization is attainable only by ones own merit and not the schools, he is asking a question with a factual answer. The ivy's, UC's factually have a higher percentage of students entering specialty.

 

[Oracle DMD]

the nerds at ivy's should specialize in order to avoid human contact. go oral pathologists!!!! hahaha

 

[glk2101]

The rigor of your experimental method intrigues me. How did you come about to this conclusion?

What's that? You picked several programs based completely on your highly subjective, pre-dental understanding of how dental specialty admissions works, combined it with a little elitism and more or less randomly assorted them into tiers?

Fascinating.

you seem to be really bothered haha...why do you read these posts

 

[DrReo]

The rigor of your experimental method intrigues me. How did you come about to this conclusion?

What's that? You picked several programs based completely on your highly subjective, pre-dental understanding of how dental specialty admissions works, combined it with a little elitism and more or less randomly assorted them into tiers?

Fascinating.

Does armor believe that programs favor well known schools?

 

[armorshell]

Does armor believe that programs favor well known schools?

I believe some do. I also think there are programs that favor certain "unknown" schools, and programs that don't favor any schools at all.

 

[armorshell]

you seem to be really bothered haha...why do you read these posts

When something bothers you do you ignore it? That doesn't even make sense to me.

 

[Oracle DMD]

because his school didn't appear on the list

he goes to UOP... a school where everyone is happy to be there. i imagine he could care less about lists randomly generated by elitist pre-dents.

 

[armorshell]

because his school didn't appear on the list

OH SNAP LOL

Color me owned 🙄

If I truly cared about my own ego (In that regard at least 😉) I would have gone to one of those schools when they accepted me.

 

[armorshell]

he goes to UOP... a school where everyone is happy to be there. i imagine he could care less about lists randomly generated by elitist pre-dents.

See, I do care about these lists, just not for that reason. I care because I think it's fair that everyone reading these threads see both sides of the coin on issues regarding what is important in becoming a good dentist, or specializing.

 

[Aceofspades]

he goes to UOP... a school where everyone is happy to be there. i imagine he could care less about lists randomly generated by elitist pre-dents.

That is not true. UOP has many dedicated and very happy students but not everyone there is happy.

 

[armorshell]

That is not true. UOP has many dedicated and very happy students but not everyone there is happy.

I don't think anyone would disagree with you, but I don't think the last poster was being literal when he said everyone. No school can literally please everyone.

 

[GunnerDMD617]

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