Touro College of Dental Medicine - New York

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Cello said:
There are over 200,000 dentists in the United States. Adding a few dozen, or even a couple hundred more dentists each year is not going to saturate the market. Besides, while some schools have opened, and other schools have increased their class size, still other schools have reduced their class sizes. The only thing people tend to discuss on these forums are the new schools and those which have recently expanded. Furthermore, there is an aging population of boomers who will increasingly need dental care, and there are likely more dentists looking to retire now that the economy is in recovery after the recession.

In my opinion, a major technological breakthrough is more likely to be disruptive to the practice of dentistry on the short-term than gradually expanding the pool of graduating dentists each year.




If you are willing to retake the DAT and work hard to achieve a 21+ I am sure you will have at least one acceptance somewhere assuming that everything else on your application checks out.
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I agree with you on the fact that if someone is willing to work hard and reapply and they can score a 20-21 or above, then they deff deserve to get in, without a doubt I agree, however, on saturation I disagree, but I think it's okay to agree to disagree :)


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1passbbsSHAVE said:
wow, that sounds like waste of money if they aren't even serious about attending. I know I am not that rich! I am making CHASE rich by flying around for interviews.
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indeed some kids are rich enough to have interview as vacation. One of my friends had multiple interviews at diff places. Each time she stayed there for one or two weeks just for having fun

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angelomen4 said:
indeed some kids are rich enough to have interview as vacation. One of my friends had multiple interviews at diff places. Each time she stayed there for one or two weeks just for having fun

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Who has that kind of luxury! Their parents or spouses must be loaded. Well, all these interviews set me back about $5000!
 
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nateriver said:
I only went to the ones I could drive to


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must be nice! I flew to most of them, drove to 2, which were still 6 hours.


It's mostly because I didn't get invited to my state school, my neighboring state school and we don't have that many dental school in the vicinity. Had no choice but to fly to other states.
 
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angelomen4 said:
Same thing on me. Interview and application has cost me about 10k+.

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Spent about $800 total for UNE, $150 for LECOM, and $600 for MWU AZ for interviews. Application was like $1.5k total including supplementals. My parents picked up the bills for all of it and I feel so lucky.
 
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must be nice! I flew to most of them, drove to 2, which were still 6 hours.


It's mostly because I didn't get invited to my state school, my neighboring state school and we don't have that many dental school in the vicinity. Had no choice but to fly to other states.
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Wow I'm sorry to hear that, must have been rough!


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fogorvostan said:
Spent about $800 total for UNE, $150 for LECOM, and $600 for MWU AZ for interviews. Application was like $1.5k total including supplementals. My parents picked up the bills for all of it and I feel so lucky.
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that ain't half bad. Counting last year's cycle and this cycle, I probably spent over $10k. I know there are people who apply to fewest number of schools possible, but I've seen people applying to crazy number of schools, like 40, or 50.. Their parents must be very very supportive and loaded as well.
 
nateriver said:
Yeah I'm beyond grateful to have only applied once lol


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that's a friggin blessing. People who don't know that's a blessing needs to go through the app process again lol
 
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nateriver said:
I agree with you on the fact that if someone is willing to work hard and reapply and they can score a 20-21 or above, then they deff deserve to get in, without a doubt I agree, however, on saturation I disagree, but I think it's okay to agree to disagree :)


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Just to further illustrate my point.

If there are roughly 200,000 dentists in the United States currently, and if dental schools churn our nearly 6,000 graduates each year, then it would take 30+ years to replace the current supply of practicing dentists. That means that your average dentist can still practice for more than 30 years if the current numbers hold, which they won't, because the US population is constantly growing and with it the demand for dentists.

Currently, there are around 62 dentists for every 100,000 citizens. That works out to about 1,500 patients for each practicing dentist. This is not taking into account specialists, part-time dentists, public attitudes towards dental care, and the all-important consideration of mal-distribution of dentists throughout the United States. Furthermore, in my opinion, dentists as a whole have not convinced the general public that dentistry is a necessity and not just a luxury. As Andrew Carnegie famously stated, "capitalism is all about turning luxuries into necessities."
 
tooth knockn said:
For those who don't know me, this is like my 3rd time applying,

i have like a 3.3 OVERALL GPA

I have very average DAT 17/18, 21 PAT, 20 RC

15 Professional years of dental experience ....

Im an older applicant.. . .

and the final thought to this post is this:


Always go to the end to achieve your dream.

there is one life to live.


Never Give up, and BE GOOD
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I'm sorry to hear that you didn't get accepted. You've been rooting and fighting hard for Touro, they should've given you an honor spot.

Anyway, I just got accepted to Touro and decide to take the offer, my stats is somewhat similar to yours. I got 26TS/24AA/19RC/19PAT . My GPA is 3.3. I have 8-9 years of dental experience. So retaking the DAT may make a big difference to your app. When it comes to application, seems like years of experience is usually overlooked...

I feel the pain of starting a new cycle. But I believe you can make it. I have faith in you.
 
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Halfmmaster said:
I'm sorry to hear that you didn't get accepted. You've been rooting and fighting hard for Touro, they should've given you an honor spot.

Anyway, I just got accepted to Touro and decide to take the offer, my stats is somewhat similar to yours. I got 26AA/24TS/19RC/19PAT . My GPA is 3.3. I have 8-9 years of dental experience. So retaking the DAT may make a big difference to your app. When it comes to application, seems like years of experience is usually overlooked...

I feel the pain of starting a new cycle. But I believe you can make it. I have faith in you.
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Great score! You heard back today?
 
Halfmmaster said:
I got the acceptance email last Wed. I wish my RC and PAT is a point higher thou. I don't like prime numbers lol.
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That sir, is a great problem to have . I hate you, but congrats on the great scores and acceptance! :)
 
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For those of you who received acceptances last week, when is the deadline to put down the deposit? Just trying to gauge when another round may come out..
 
leb724 said:
For those of you who received acceptances last week, when is the deadline to put down the deposit? Just trying to gauge when another round may come out..
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The term &condition form is due tmr, the deadline for the deposit is a week from yesterday which is next Monday.
 
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When I spoke to Admissions today, they mentioned they're planning on sending another round of acceptances in the next few days. But I'll take "planning" as that may or may not happen. Obviously it's dependent on the feedback they receive from those accepted thus far.
 
xhmi3 said:
When I spoke to Admissions today, they mentioned they're planning on sending another round of acceptances in the next few days. But I'll take "planning" as that may or may not happen. Obviously it's dependent on the feedback they receive from those accepted thus far.
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there's gotta be some people dropping out due to getting off at other schools. So hang in there whoever's waiting for touro's call.
 
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Ureejojo said:
Didn't you get in any other school?
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No, I didn't. I applied a bit late this cycle (Nov-Dec). Knowing I wouldn't have much chance with my low GPA, I only applied to a few schools and planned to apply early next cycle (2016-2017). Since Touro offered their admission in Jan, I applied, and got accepted. So I'll go to Touro. I'm glad I don't have to wait another year.
 
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1passbbsSHAVE said:
there's gotta be some people dropping out due to getting off at other schools. So hang in there whoever's waiting for touro's call.
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Desperately waiting..I'll take not getting a rejection as a good sign. :xf:
 
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1passbbsSHAVE said:
there's gotta be some people dropping out due to getting off at other schools. So hang in there whoever's waiting for touro's call.
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That's probably why Touro wants such a fast turnaround on responses and deposits. They want to "lock down" their students in case they get off the wait lists at other schools.
 
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Desperately waiting..I'll take not getting a rejection as a good sign. :xf:
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I have a feeling that Touros going have multiple acceptance waves, just like most schools. Every school has about 50-60% acceptance on the first wave and they didn't even send out 110 acceptances yet from what I understood.
 
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Whats their deposit again? 3800? Will the amount of deposit somehow indicate its turndown rate?

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Some people maybe apprehensive about throwing away $3800 if they get off the wait list at another school.
 
paliman101 said:
I have a feeling that Touros going have multiple acceptance waves, just like most schools. Every school has about 50-60% acceptance on the first wave and they didn't even send out 110 acceptances yet from what I understood.
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Are you saying 50-60% commit? and I hope you're right about the multiple acceptance waves. I'm waitlisted at one school and haven't yet heard from another, besides Touro, so I feel like I'm hanging on by a thread.
 
Is anyone else having difficulties paying the deposit online?
 
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jj456 said:
Is anyone else having difficulties paying the deposit online?
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I do
their web page is not the same as the instruction we have
I emailed them. Hopefully they get back to me soon
 
kami_us07 said:
I do
their web page is not the same as the instruction we have
I emailed them. Hopefully they get back to me soon
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I can't validate my account. What do you mean the webpage is not the same?
 
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paliman101 said:
I have a feeling that Touros going have multiple acceptance waves, just like most schools. Every school has about 50-60% acceptance on the first wave and they didn't even send out 110 acceptances yet from what I understood.
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no lol. Other schools send out acceptance after each wave of interviews(probably 4~5 waves). Touro finished all interviews and sent out all acceptance at once because of accreditation. And others already called and confirmed that 110 acceptances were sent.
 
paliman101 said:
Those are some good stats, surprised you didn't get accepted yet
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Ive been patiently waiting after 5 interviews since Sep ( waitlisted at all of them)
Im glad that i got accepted to touro at least.
 
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