The other Dental student : Friend or Foe?

[UMDeeMan]

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i still have 3 years till I apply, but i want to know. Once you are in dental school, are the fellow students nice and willing to help? or are they cut throat, step on your face to get ahead (ie sabotage the competition so they have a better chance at specializing)? i'm just curious and have no idea myself. let me know what youall think.

 

[UMDeeMan]

ok guys, look at these views and no opinions??? you mean to tell me all you bright dental students are only studying machines with no opinions??? come on, rock the vote.

 

[Bickle]

Patience my young apprentice.

You only gave people 14 min to respond?? Give it a day, you'll get what your looking for.

 

[ziptree]

Depends on where you go...or so I've seen from my interviews.

In my opinion, UOP has a really tight network of students (maybe since many come from UOP undergrad, where I go now) that are willing to help each other.

This maybe totally wrong, but I felt that UCSF and UCLA had less of a comradery (sp?) amongst it's student population, and that people were a little more competitive.

UCLA and UCSF are known for their competition for placement into a specialty program whereas UOP's dental school is strong clinically but lacks on the academic/research side. This probably has a role in the competitiveness of the school, since students at UOP are probably more willing to help each other, since most are planning for just a GP or AEGD/GPR, while those at UCLA/UCSF are trying to get into post-grad programs such as Ortho, Endo, OS, Perio...

Just my 2 cents.

 

[jaremy]

some are some are not............mostly everyone is doing there own thing trying to survive.........and on the one day they have off getting stinking drunk