Specializing

[Dr.dentist.dds]

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[dentistrydmd]

No actually pass/fail schools can put you at a disadvantage for specialization. If you can get good marks and show a reasonably high ranking in your class you will be in a good position. If you have p/f you have less of a way to differentiate yourself among all the other candidates.

 

[Ivy.ch]

Agree with above. Good marks and good rank are a great eye opener for residencies (both specialities and GPRs)

if you want to specialize, the most important thing you can do it minimize your dental school debt. A lot of students don’t specialize because they can’t handle even more debt on top of what they finish with after dental school. Hope your top choice is cheap.

 

[gryffindor]

If someone else is paying for your education, then go to Harvard, the holy grail of P/F schools.

 

[bergus95]

P/F for the win, just don't pay an arm and a leg for it

aim for UCONN, UCLA, UCSF, Stony Brook. Those are imo the best P/F schools strictly due to cost

 

[2TH MVR]

I would add that attending an inexpensive DS that offers specialty residencies is wise. You'll get 1st hand experience with the different specialty depts, specialist attendings, etc. Besides some shadowing .... not sure how a predent or dental student can actually get a true feel for specialties when their DS does not offer them. Once you decide on a specialty .... you can help out in the specialty residency program. I did this. Helped with the research projects for an ortho attending (who also wrote my LOR for residency) and an ortho resident. I was outside of the top 5 in my DS ranking, but I attribute my acceptance into ortho from my experience with my DS's ortho residency.

 

[Jaa_]

I think Stony Brook stopped being pass fail in the recent years.

SBU is mixed ABC and PF for certain courses including clinic