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Hello,
I am writing this thread to seek a few answers for some questions I have. I’ll try to keep the questions short and sweet.
My first question: Do dental schools care about the prestige of your undergraduate school? Or is it more about your overall gpa and science gpa.
I go to a really top notch high school, and a lot of my peers are all getting accepted into likewise top notch schools; however, their major is computer science as opposed to my intended career - dentistry. My school counselors don’t really have any experience either anything health related, so I was also instructed to just apply to top universities. My state school has a really bad grading system, as opposed to colleges that are lesser known elsewhere that have a more normal grading system.
Second question: I was wondering what are some good materials and test prep I can use to get started with the DAT and the required pre-requisite courses for dental schools (o-chem, chem, bio, etc.)
Third question: What kind of GPA and DAT score should I shoot for, obviously the highest possible, but I’m talking within a threshold so I know if I dip below I need to really step up my game.
Thank you for your time in reading and responding,
Nocturnal
I am writing this thread to seek a few answers for some questions I have. I’ll try to keep the questions short and sweet.
My first question: Do dental schools care about the prestige of your undergraduate school? Or is it more about your overall gpa and science gpa.
I go to a really top notch high school, and a lot of my peers are all getting accepted into likewise top notch schools; however, their major is computer science as opposed to my intended career - dentistry. My school counselors don’t really have any experience either anything health related, so I was also instructed to just apply to top universities. My state school has a really bad grading system, as opposed to colleges that are lesser known elsewhere that have a more normal grading system.
Second question: I was wondering what are some good materials and test prep I can use to get started with the DAT and the required pre-requisite courses for dental schools (o-chem, chem, bio, etc.)
Third question: What kind of GPA and DAT score should I shoot for, obviously the highest possible, but I’m talking within a threshold so I know if I dip below I need to really step up my game.
Thank you for your time in reading and responding,
Nocturnal
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