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I interviewed out there on friday...this school was sweet! Anyone else as excited about this school as I am?
I was excited about it too when I left!! It's a great school esp. if you want to specialize into oral surgery...
really? i thought their speciality rate was low... but i heard their
facilities were great.
Couldn't be sweeter then UoP. I only say that because right after my tour, a lady approached me, dumped UoP branded candy into my hands and told me to go there.
Sweet indeed!
I interviewed out there on friday...this school was sweet! Anyone else as excited about this school as I am?
I think the fact that the neigborhood is so bad is one of the things that makes temple so good. Their clinical is second to none! If they were located in the nicest part of town, the clinical would suffer, IMO.
the neighborhood Temple is in, it is really bad.
My friend interviewed there recently and he said that he swears he heard the director say that they will only reject like 50 of the applicants before Dec. 1st. This doesn't sound right to me, but I was wondering if anyone else heard this. I recently interviewed there, loved it!!!, but never heard anything about how many Temple will interview before Dec 1st or how many they will reject during my interview. Any thoughts would be nice.
I have seen this number (200/300) here before and Brian told us at our interview that there was 300 ppl interviewed before Dec 1 and 200 acceptances would be sent out for dec 1 (nov 28 actually he said). So 50 is wrong, 100 is right.
The number that every predent should know is how many freshmen dental students graduate with their respective classmates in 4yrs, aka the attrition rate. This is key to understanding how supportive the school is in supporting their students. Before you all send in a deposit pack up for Philly, ask one of the administrators how many people are let go due to grades... You owe this to yourself to find this out before you attend any dental school. I wish you all the best.
When I interviewed there the senior class was on pace to graduate 120/125. Temple Administration goes on and on about how they have a 98% graduation rate, and how those who don't graduate (for the most part) are those that choose to leave dental school on their own. I don't really know how you can go to a much more supportive school. Temple has the best clinic in the nation, an excellent match rate (over 90%, but a lot of those are just into 1-year residency programs) and they are willing to do everything they can to help you graduate (in my experience the professors are more than willing to sit down with you and help you understand what is going on. In pre-clinic there are a couple that seem like they are just trying to screw you, but once you get to know them you see that they are just trying to help you become better. I haven't gotten the feeling that any of them are out to "screw" you or make you fail or put you through any type of "rite of passage." Just my personal experience).
I loved the school also, but was a little disturbed by the fact that two D4s went out of their way to tell my group NOT to come there. They said the school works the heck out of students to make more money,way more than other schools, hence the "clinically competent" cover-up....this is not my opinion, but 2 experienced students sure felt that way.
I loved the school also, but was a little disturbed by the fact that two D4s went out of their way to tell my group NOT to come there. They said the school works the heck out of students to make more money,way more than other schools, hence the "clinically competent" cover-up....this is not my opinion, but 2 experienced students sure felt that way.