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Its not getting very far.
This is true.But it is pretty entertaining... ^_^
Hi hazza92, nice of you to pop by.
Dentists get straight into practice after dent sch. If they want to specialise, they do a Masters degree in a specific discipline in Dentistry, all of which are highly competitive.
IMO, full-fee dent @ a new/no-name uni will affect employment prospects since there're more dent schs opening up in the next 5 years, increasing the supply of dent grads. With a greater pool of candidates to select from, private employers will get fussy.
If there's a dent sch that's not advisable to attend, it'd be GU Dent Sch not La Trobe. The reason is GU primarily caters more to wealthy students who can pay its astronomical $100K fees for the GDent rather than those with academic or any other personal merits relevant to being a good dentist.
Read here & here for more info abt GU Dent Sch.
BTW what uni you going anyway? and what uai did you get?
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Irrelevant. Getting personal won't help us see things objectively.
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you are mentioning about full fees of 100k. why do you think ppl will do dent even if they need to pay 100k because dent has a bright future. you can get a loan to study anyway... this you mentioned that is a factor affecting GUdents low uai cut off score. this is understandable but how come you arent considering the location of the LA trobe uni? it is in the middle of no where.
Firstly, La Trobe's course is not fully accredited. Only the first year is.Don't even tell me abt less "credibility" with La Trobe becoz you yourself implied that no local dent sch gets approved unless it's legit. So, you've either made a mindnumbing mistake for rejecting La Trobe's offer or just couldn't get into La Trobe, which is more understandable and believable because I don't think that you're such an idiot yet.
Rubbish; this is not the same as not being able to afford a DFEE spot.Yeah, but perhaps financially disadvantaged students will be less inclined to have a huge burden like a 100k loan right out of graduation? I mean, even on a dentist's salary, it's going to take some paying off. Maybe that's why bigheadache makes an argument that the more financially elite, despite having lower scores than the majority, are finding their way into Griffith; whereas the more academically able are being denied an opportunity due to their inability to finance the re-payment of such loans.
Double U Tee Eff, mate? People that are, as you say 'unqualified' are failing and thus being weeded out. Does this not mean that they're getting rid of those who can't study it? Does this not actually go along with the idea of producing capable graduates?.and so, the question to ask is why've these mediocre students been selected by the GU Dent Sch for such a demanding prog. to begin with? A prog, might I add, which they appear to struggling to pass on their own steam in Yr1 for god's sake.
Socio-economic disadvantage ties directly to having lower TER scores.
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Is that always true?
We've all heard about poor migrant families. How their children consistently rank among the top achievers in VCE due to their sheer determination to make it to the top of society and the value that their culture places on education. Maybe that proves that if there is a will, there's surely a way. I dunno. This can't be applied to every individual in every situation, but it's just a thought that i had...
As the GU Dent Sch appears to be *the* mecca for some of the worst (OP8/9) rejects of conventional dent sch , I'd say that it's dumbing down Australian Dent Sch admission standards. That's also self-evident when a large portion of the 2007 cohort failed at least 1 basic sci subject. If such "quality" students've trouble passing 1st yr, how're they gonna do 5 yrs of dentistry?? That also calls into question the quality control for accepting dent students @ the GU Dent Sch. Were these guys accepted in a prog they're ill-equipped to study to create an additional income stream for the Dent Sch?
Just want to point out that people fail medicine in every uni every year. Show me a study that points out that their TER/OP correlates to their chance of failing. Because it doesn't.
Is that always true?
We've all heard about poor migrant families. How their children consistently rank among the top achievers in VCE due to their sheer determination to make it to the top of society and the value that their culture places on education. Maybe that proves that if there is a will, there's surely a way. I dunno. This can't be applied to every individual in every situation, but it's just a thought that i had...
Firstly, I don't think as many med students fail 1st yr as the GU "dent" students in 2007. Secondly, I think there's a study correlating study-habits to academic achievement & success @ uni.
Lastly, med schs're not getting the creme of the academic crop anymore since the non-academic selectors were used.
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Oh, and I suppose I hallucinated this, along with the offer package they sent me and three or four other letters as well as the numerous phone calls that were made.
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students with an op 1/2 aren't the only ones suited for medicine/dentistry. plenty of people are just as capable of studying those courses.
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