TX resident and OOS list

[iheartteeth7]

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I'm a TX resident applying this year and considering several OOS schools. I honestly don't know if I want to live and practice in TX forever, I love travel/new places, and I would love to move somewhere if it meant going to a great dental school in an exciting city. However, I don't want to throw all practicality away and graduate with 2 or 3x the amount of debt if it's not worth it.

Here's my list in progress (no particular order), and I'd love to get some feedback on pros/cons, OOS-friendly, worth the considerable extra cost, any scholarships offered to top students...Thanks for any input!

Colorado
Washington
Penn
Pacific
Boston
Tufts
Columbia
Baylor
UTHouston

 

[Illfavor]

I don't really know the costs of most of these schools, but Boston and Tufts are a waste of time. Penn and UoP give scholarships, but are still nowhere near as cheap as Texas. So incredibly expensive. You have better stats than I did and I went 3/3 in state and received scholarships to SA and Baylor (Houston doesn't give them out before D1). If you're wanting to specialize (though it's unlikely you're sure right now), meaning even more debt and more interest accumulation, I would strongly encourage you to stay in Texas. OFMS is a really long process, as you know. I would argue there is no school worth the (minimum) extra 100K+ you'll be paying to leave the state. No "experience" worth one hundred thousand dollars. The NE is way more expensive that the SW, cost of living-wise.

Are you not applying to San Antonio?

 

[IsaacYankem]

Throw UConn on that list. Great school, small class size, can easily specialize from there as they have a med-school curriculum, and you get in-state after 1 year, so it's relatively affordable. One of the few schools worth leaving Texas for.

 

[doc toothache]

You'd be surprised the information you can find in the ADEA Official Guide to Dental Schools.