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[Lilly2007]

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Hi everyone,

I've recently been placed on the waitling list for Tufts, and have to submit my $750 deposit within the next day or two. I would really appreciate if someone would tell me about their experiences at Tufts. (any advice/feed back from non Tufts students would also really be appreciated.)

Thanks to everyone in advance.

--Lilly

 

[mightymolar]

Don't know if it would help, but I heard that the students at Tufts had to do a lot of lab work on their own. Staying behind until 9pm was not uncommon for most to finish waxing up dentures, crowns and other bits and pieces. If you are trying to pass dental school and if you have to be concerned with those "extra" curricular work, then it is extra stress you could live without. Haven't you also heard that unless you make sure that your patients pay 100% of the fee, you won't get your graduation degree? The School will not give you the degree unless you do that, hence some patients use this info to their advantage. They just disapper after the work is delivered... Most students would rather pay up the balance themselves rather than 'gasp!' not graduate!! In my humble opinion, you just don't need high stress in addition to what you will be going through. Take the low stress option if you could.

 

[gryffindor]

mightymolar, the experience you described at Tufts doesn't sound too different from mine at Buffalo. Sure it was stressful, but there are 90+ others in your class going through the same thing, so you aren't really at a disadvantage when it comes to passing. I have yet to hear of a dental school where it isn't stressful. Also, I think everyone has to do some degree of labwork. Don't choose your school based on the amount of labwork. Because there are graduates coming out of every dental school who make it. Once you are in dental school, you do what you have to in order to graduate. And so does everyone else, even if it means casting your own crowns and waxing your own dentures. Believe me, if you can get through all the basic sciences at your dental school, dental labwork is so not a big deal.

For that matter, don't get too hung up on the patients not paying either. Ask some upperclassmen at Tufts if you are really concerned about what happens when patients don't pay, don't just go by hearsay on this board. My guess is that it's just another one of those irritating things about dental school you put up with, not anything to make a huge ordeal about or to not choose Tufts because of it. At this point in dental school, if passing clinic means fronting my patients $600 for some crowns or dentures, I'll do it. It isn't worth the hassle to not pass and put up with extra clinic sessions and harrasment from the school. In another year, I won't really care what happened to the $600 when I graduate (hopefully the patients would have paid me back) because I have my DDS and be long gone from the administration and its crazy rules.

Lily, I don't know too much about the Tufts program to help you out. All the students I have met through ASDA who go there seem to be very nice and motivated people.