PSA: warning to applicants to avoid these red flag dental schools

Dear predents,

This is a post to simplify your application process. Dental school sucks full stop. It’s hard and it’s expensive. It’s extremely stressful and the last thing you want is additional stress of a new untested program with borderline predatory policies.

As such, the best dental school is the cheapest one you get accepted to. All are valid and will get the job done, but you must not entertain applying to the following predatory scam schools:

California Northstate University (CNU)

Lincoln Memorial University (LMU)

High Point University (HPU)

Pacific Northwest University (PNWU)

NEOMED** (edit: simply added because new program. Otherwise seems promising)

These are the 5 schools you DONT apply to so that you don’t have to reject any acceptances. The types of people applying to these schools are ones who would not make it into any of the other 95% of dental schools.

There is no free lunch. There are massive hidden risks they won’t tell you with these five schools that make it not worth it.

Anyways, NYU and USC get a lot of hate for some predatory practices as well, however they atleast have an established history and offer federal student loans. I’d say THESE are the schools you apply to if you are desperate enough. The ones listed above you don’t even pay attention to no matter how appealing their No DAT gimmicks seem. Again, there is no free lunch.

Disclaimer for the mods: I can provide a lengthy discussion on why these schools prey on desperate applicants. However I wanted to simply aggregate this list for applicants who are in the school selection process. I understand bold claims are being made in this post, yet it is common knowledge that these programs should be avoided for maximum security. I’d like anyone to chime in and prove me wrong.