University of the Pacific

Date: Mar 18 2010
Major: PreDent and Dentistry (This Major's Salary over time)
Went to the dental school in San Francisco - the most unprofessional atmosphere I've ever encountered. The lectures are a joke, and the professors are so lazy they use the exact same exams from year to year, so if by chance someone or some group had a copy of that exam, they finished a 2 hour final in 20 minutes. Not only that but some profs were teaching things that they obviously knew very little about. As an older returning student with several years of post-grad studies, I knew more than some of the jokers teaching the classes. Many of the male clinical instructors were there for one reason only - to get laid. Everybody knew it, including the school administration that was run by a dean who was too self-absorbed and too busy hustling for money to care. If you're not a hot female willing to give it up good luck getting help in securing enough patients. Or being the same ethnicity of some of the instructors also helps, especially if you speak their language. Some of the students were here only because Mom or Dad gave a nice chunk of change to the school. Some of them were so academically clueless it was scary. And the place nickel and dimes you for everything, making it one of the most expensive dental schools in the country. And no, you will not make up that EXTRA $150K you spent here by getting out 1 year early. Everything is so rushed and compressed that you actually learn less than your peers at UCSF or UCLA. Don't buy all the hype and marketing, which is the only thing this place is good at. Go to a public school and get a better education for less.