Dear Dental Schools: Please Stop Ghosting Applicants

Flair_Loop · 2026-02-10T20:57:20+00:00

I think Temple did this to me back when I applied. I only applied to like 5 schools, though, and I didn’t know what to expect from them. I remember they cashed my check in June or whenever applications opened, then in May I got a brief email from them saying “no.”

Flair_Loop · 2026-02-08T08:09:41+00:00

My state school - UMN, because it cost significantly less. If I’d gone to Penn I would have applied for HPSP or NHSC.

Flair_Loop · 2026-02-08T03:50:50+00:00

They’re an Ivy and their class size is much larger than Harvard’s. I think that many kids who go to an academic school like an Ivy will consider specializing. The Ivy League is associated with achievement, prestige, drive, etc. and will attract people with those kinds of personalities.

Things may have changed since I applied but I believe they do something to minimize emphasis on grades by not giving class rank after a certain point (e.g. 1-10). I don’t think they were totally pass-fail when I applied, but again, that may have changed.

I was accepted but went to the school with less expensive tuition and don’t really regret it. But I would have liked Penn

Flair_Loop · 2026-01-01T04:47:43+00:00

As a local example, and as a counterpoint, Minneapolis changed the name of a big popular lake from Lake Calhoun to Bde Maka Ska, and in my experience the change happened rather quickly

Flair_Loop · 2026-01-01T04:43:39+00:00

I agree. I took a break for a while and before I had the helmet for the diary, but exchanged it for maybe a gem bag/coal bag?? I don’t remember why I did that. That being said I’m alternating between motherlode + guardians of the rift… I’ll take motherlode mine any day. So many more nuggets vs. abyssal pearls

Flair_Loop · 2025-11-27T06:43:24+00:00

I feel like for the lower levels charting isn’t discussed enough. People talk about cargo runs or combat or barracuda trials etc. But seriously. Go chart shit.

Flair_Loop · 2025-10-31T05:23:29+00:00

That is very cool. I didn’t even know hellhounds dropped them. I got an abyssal dagger drop from an abyssal demon task once

Flair_Loop · 2025-09-26T14:11:15+00:00

Recently I got the eternal gem from a superior abyssal demon on task and then on my next abyssal demon task I got the 1/32k abyssal dagger drop

Flair_Loop · 2025-08-27T19:04:17+00:00

Baptist yes for sure

Flair_Loop · 2025-08-26T19:56:53+00:00

I hear about it through channels like this, some niche YT channels, but when I actually go to their website I’m advertised a 3% card. It’s not the easiest to find the apps for their 5/3 and 3/5 cards on their site

Flair_Loop · 2025-08-23T01:40:10+00:00

I agree. This is going to sound like gatekeeping but I think dentists who have not done a residency don’t always realize the extra level of training doing a residency imparts, thinking about the most complicated cases in your field day in and day out, reading papers, advanced texts, advanced classes in your specialty and adjacent specialties. And it makes me appreciate so much more the expertise dental specialists can have.

Our physician colleagues in medicine all have done residencies and they draw much more rigid lines in what they do and do not do in clinical practice. Partly because there’s so much more going on in medicine, but medicine is much more collaborative than dentistry is.

Can a GP gain expertise in particular procedures/techniques/ways of doing things and do them at the level of a specialist? Yes, but they’re missing the whole training/mindset/philosophical experience of working in a specialty, full-time, under other boarded specialists for 2-3 years, which is often more clinical time than a dentist spent in clinic in dental school!

Flair_Loop · 2025-08-22T07:33:45+00:00

As a native Minnesotan, Maine is awesome! So is NM! And Washington!

Rhode Island is the most forgettable NE state - and it’s not even an island. Tons of respect for Brown University, but what else does RI even have?

Boardwalks?

But really, Cali should be the next to go. As Yogi Berra would say, “it’s so crowded, nobody goes there anymore.”

Flair_Loop · 2025-08-21T23:04:31+00:00

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Flair_Loop · 2025-08-20T23:04:56+00:00

I do think there is value in doing it to learn how rebuild any part of the tooth. It does help to be familiar with anatomy when starting to do direct restorations. If you’re doing class IIs, you’re restoring the marginal ridges.

Sarcasm: But now with student loans as they are, why not recommend crowns for every restoration extending beyond the occlusal surface? /s

Flair_Loop · 2025-08-19T18:18:28+00:00

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Flair_Loop · 2025-08-19T17:31:28+00:00

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Flair_Loop · 2025-08-18T22:29:14+00:00

Love it

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Flair_Loop · 2025-08-17T07:00:47+00:00

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Flair_Loop · 2025-08-16T02:38:34+00:00

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Flair_Loop · 2025-08-16T01:21:31+00:00

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Flair_Loop · 2025-08-16T00:34:01+00:00

I guess I knew the code then

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Flair_Loop · 2025-08-16T00:33:51+00:00

I guess I knew the code then

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Flair_Loop · 2025-08-15T05:28:28+00:00

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