Hi,
I've been reading these post about NYU in many different threads and I have to say that many many are judging NYUCD on the basis of how expensive the school, how big the class is and the "reputation" presented on this forum. If you guys are so inclined to believe that a large class size = marginal students or anything like that, I think its needs a little more proof than that.
NYU has been going through very dramatic changes over the past two years. The new dean, Dean Alfono has changed the whole curriculum for the first two years. I am a D1 student here and I selected this school because I liked what I saw when I interviewed there. The board scores averages are for students in the old curriculum, so the D2 students (new curriculum) will be a good measurement of how well NYU will score on future boards. True, some students complain about this dental school, but every dental school is different and each has its disadvantages and advantages. For the class size issue, I don't believe its such a big deal. You have to learn to adapt to working in larger groups and having your opinion heard amongst your peers. The amazing diversity at this school and the patient pools is enormous. There are at least 500 D3 and D4 students who treat patients and nobody says that they don't have enough patients. Just imagine how large this patient pool is here and the experience you gain from seeing soo many cases.
Also, NYUCD has just finished the Bluestone research clinic. The dean has been pushing for research as a greater priority in this school and he is bringing in the brightest minds in many fields to chair these new research groups. There are tremendous opportunities for this years incoming class to do research.
Those are some of the points I felt that was missing in your discussions about NYU. Please don't be so arogant to dismiss NYU or any other large metropolitan schools because of class size or reputation. We are all going to be professionals and we need to think about how we percieve our collegues.
Thanks