What's your first choice school?
Started by coral2005
UAB is easily my first choice. They have great facilities and brand new clinics (with plenty of chairs and a huge patient base). Both the faculty and the students there seemed really nice and everyone was very friendly and willing to answer any questions you had. Really the biggest thing that impressed me was that the students there actually like it...there's not all that many dental schools where you can ask a D2 if they like dental school and get a positive response.
Advertisement - Members don't see this ad
Nova is my first choice right now... im not applying till 2007 though
UNLV cause I can get in as an in-stater. By the way, whoever said I needed to wait a year was wrong. I moved down last week and continue to work for the department store I had been working at in St. George, Utah. I just gave them a letter from my Manager that said I am transferring work to their Vegas store and...Kazoom, in January I will start getting in-state tuition and am already considered a "resident." Very easy process. The admissions people are cool too. I'm surprised more people don't do it this way. 😀
Advertisement - Members don't see this ad
The University of North Cackalacky at Chapel Hill
UMDNJ
Reasons:
Cost (Nj resident)
Where my family lives
Where my fiance lives and works (I go to school in Boston... he would move if I don't get into a NYC/NJ school of course!)
Know the faculty
- btw, I go to Tufts undergrad and if money and location was no object, I'd go there. They facilities are beautiful and they are so nice here....
Reasons:
Cost (Nj resident)
Where my family lives
Where my fiance lives and works (I go to school in Boston... he would move if I don't get into a NYC/NJ school of course!)
Know the faculty
- btw, I go to Tufts undergrad and if money and location was no object, I'd go there. They facilities are beautiful and they are so nice here....
coral2005 said:
My top choices are:
#1) UCSF = UPENN
#2) UCLA = UMD,
#3) Columbia = UCONN
Number one school would be whoever contacts me and tells me that I am accepted.
Advertisement - Members don't see this ad
right now a toss up between UMKC and TEMPLE but will see how my NOVA interview goes.
Well with UoP granting me an interview at the end of January, and Arizona giving me the bird, I'd have to say UNLV or Creighton.
Beestieboy said:
Why Creighton? I heard that the city is boring...how's the program?
Vegas baby, Vegas
Advertisement - Members don't see this ad
UNLV or Oklahoma I will have to think long and hard if I get both.
Cinnamoroll0913 said:
Depends on what you call boring. If you need big city life, you may not dig Creighton, but Omaha is not a small city either. If you need to go clubbing or bar hopping it might be lacking too. Other than that, it's a strong school and for Utah and Idaho applicants it's great becuase of a compact agreement they have (those states don't have schools of their own). If you go back to your home state to practice you get about 50% off tuition and so it ends up being very affordable (as far as dental school goes).
Advertisement - Members don't see this ad
TimR said:
burn ... not going to make any friends putting down utah in a dental forum
ElMudo said:
I've learned to live with it.
ElMudo said:
touche' ... only meant that Utah appears to be very well represented among dents, haven't had the same experience with those from idaho, i'm sure they're out there. i have no connections to either (typical assumptardedness on display!).
My first choice: UCLA or UCSF either or....but landed at SC 😛
Advertisement - Members don't see this ad
OHSU-
Why?-(no order)
It is an older school (with new facilities soon to be under construction) with a great rep.
I love Portland, there is so much to do-Beach, Mountains, Camping Hiking, Fishing, Biking, Rock Climbing, River play, Seattle- its all within a couple of hours.
Their board pass rate is great, and they score well, too.
Their instructors are real, and tough.
The classes all seem to bond with each other, joke around and like the school.
They have a lot of speciality programs and they do their own lab work, (extra time, ha ha, can be used making fun little things out of spare gold..)
You can do round with the med. school for those interested in OMFS.
Cost is a factor as well.
You buy your own intruments, so you can get special tools/carvers if you want.
There are lots of patients to work on, and your friends/fam can request you.
Why?-(no order)
It is an older school (with new facilities soon to be under construction) with a great rep.
I love Portland, there is so much to do-Beach, Mountains, Camping Hiking, Fishing, Biking, Rock Climbing, River play, Seattle- its all within a couple of hours.
Their board pass rate is great, and they score well, too.
Their instructors are real, and tough.
The classes all seem to bond with each other, joke around and like the school.
They have a lot of speciality programs and they do their own lab work, (extra time, ha ha, can be used making fun little things out of spare gold..)
You can do round with the med. school for those interested in OMFS.
Cost is a factor as well.
You buy your own intruments, so you can get special tools/carvers if you want.
There are lots of patients to work on, and your friends/fam can request you.
First choice = Arizona
1. taking the first boards after the first year
2. brand new everything
3. weather is a lot warmer than other areas I interviewed at
4. not as expensive as USC
5. students seem to really enjoy the program (one class at a time)
6. not too far from home
7. mesa seems like a place you could walk around in the evening and not get shot
8. they haven't rejected me yet
1. taking the first boards after the first year
2. brand new everything
3. weather is a lot warmer than other areas I interviewed at
4. not as expensive as USC
5. students seem to really enjoy the program (one class at a time)
6. not too far from home
7. mesa seems like a place you could walk around in the evening and not get shot
8. they haven't rejected me yet
Upenn
Advertisement - Members don't see this ad
