UTHSCSA Dental Students

[pinkfairydust]

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Hi guys, so I'm torn between an in-state school and out-of-state school. If any of you at UTHSCSA could please tell me the pros, cons, and in betweens of your school.

Do you regret your choice if you had somewhere else to go?

How are the opportunities to specialize?

Is clinic organized and is it easy to have patients?

Are the faculty members helpful? How is the curriculum?

It seems like a whole lot of students in UTHSCSA are failed after 1st year and 3rd year, why?

Anything you could tell me to help me pick because I am running out of time. I was accepted into Temple in Philly and the environment seems super relaxed, super fun, and everyone who wants to specialize gets all the help in the world to make it. The tuition is more and it is not a drive from home anymore but I can't help but to think it's totally worth it.

 

[b-rad12]

If you get into a Texas school you go to a Texas school.

 

[bjpenn]

This is a joke right ? The fact you got into San antionio is a GIFT. if you like debt and want a harder road to owning your own practice some day, goto temple. I know some super successful dentists that went to SA

 

[pinkfairydust]

This is a joke right ? The fact you got into San antionio is a GIFT. if you like debt and want a harder road to owning your own practice some day, goto temple. I know some super successful dentists that went to SA

If I got into Baylor there would be no choice to make.

 

[bjpenn]

What difference does it make if you goto Baylor instead of sa?

 

[td2014]

If you get into a Texas school you go to a Texas school.

Any decision that goes against this logic is a mistake you will regret when you start looking at your loan payments. You will realize it isn't "worth it" quickly.

 

[Dancindarlin23]

There have been horror stories on patients no-showing and not being able to meet requirements at our school, or at least it being difficult. The "out of your control" (patients no-showing, etc.) aspect is what makes 3rd/4th year grueling. I would definitely not say it is "easy" to have patients. Some faculty members are amazing. Willing to help, meet with you, want you to succeed. Some are extremely frustrating and unfair. There is a stipulation in a lot of the syllabi that says you can be failed based on "professionalism." So you definitely need to watch yourself. We had 3 out of 100 fail our first year. The fail rate is higher for second year from what I've seen (We inherited 6 from the class above us). People fail third year because they couldn't meet their requirements or because they don't have the hand skills down from what I understand. Comparatively to other TX schools, mainly Houston, I feel the vibe was more so that the faculty were really on the students' side and did more to ensure their success; this is also what I've heard, but I could not report on this definitely being the case as I did not go there. But would I get into $50K-100K+ more debt to go somewhere else? (OOS) definitely not.

 

[Mackchops]

Speaking from experience as someone who went to a private school it is NOT worth the additional cost of attendance. Granted, I didn't have an in-state option and don't regret taking on a ridiculous amount of student loan debt to be able to do what I do, but you have a very very very very obvious answer to your question. Bad for Temple, GREAT for you…

 

[pinkfairydust]

There have been horror stories on patients no-showing and not being able to meet requirements at our school, or at least it being difficult. The "out of your control" (patients no-showing, etc.) aspect is what makes 3rd/4th year grueling. I would definitely not say it is "easy" to have patients. Some faculty members are amazing. Willing to help, meet with you, want you to succeed. Some are extremely frustrating and unfair. There is a stipulation in a lot of the syllabi that says you can be failed based on "professionalism." So you definitely need to watch yourself. We had 3 out of 100 fail our first year. The fail rate is higher for second year from what I've seen (We inherited 6 from the class above us). People fail third year because they couldn't meet their requirements or because they don't have the hand skills down from what I understand. Comparatively to other TX schools, mainly Houston, I feel the vibe was more so that the faculty were really on the students' side and did more to ensure their success; this is also what I've heard, but I could not report on this definitely being the case as I did not go there. But would I get into $50K-100K+ more debt to go somewhere else? (OOS) definitely not.

Faculty were more on your side at San Antonio or at Houston?

 

[Dancindarlin23]

Faculty were more on your side at San Antonio or at Houston?

It seems like faculty tend to be more on your side at Houston. Though there are some great faculty at SA, if you succeed it will be all due to you. I heard (it's just hearsay) that at Houston, if you have trouble, faculty are more inclined to want to help you to get you to succeed. For example, at SA if your patient no shows you will get an unsatisfactory for the day unless you somehow manage to get someone else to show up that day for you. If you fail one class during the year, you remediate it in the summer (needing a higher grade to pass than the original course) and it is usually just self study and exams. If you can't do it, you're dismissed. Idk how things things work at other schools. Could be the same.