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I haven't seen this discussed anywhere? If someone applies to what appears to be an average 8 to 12 dental schools and this fall is their Senior Year and they have an average class load - how can they possibly go to the interviews? Will dental school interviews be on the weekend?
I have a lite load myself - but even with no class on Fridays and a late class on Monday - I'm still in school almost all the time and what if I have 3 or 4 interviews on say a Tuesday - I can't miss that many classes. I rarely miss class period... Now, of course professors will let students miss - but missing two classes or three or heaven forbid four - even if the professors condones my absence - my school work is being compromised. Some interviews would probably require a student to be out of town overnight because of distance which would now be two days of missed classes and on top of all this what if a student had to miss another day of class because of sickness for even one more day? What a mess. How do people do all these interviews without blowing up their current Senior Fall Semesters?
Of course many dental applicants may have only one or two interviews, but looking at the DAT scores and grades posted on this board - many posters are high achievers and 6 to 8 interviews is a real possibility. Some might say - once those interviews are offered - just weed it down and go to the three best, but that would be foolish as an interview is not an admission. So you have to keep going until you get in.
Which takes us back to how does a dental student go to 5 to 8 interviews - during this coming Fall Semester without compromising their course work?
I have a lite load myself - but even with no class on Fridays and a late class on Monday - I'm still in school almost all the time and what if I have 3 or 4 interviews on say a Tuesday - I can't miss that many classes. I rarely miss class period... Now, of course professors will let students miss - but missing two classes or three or heaven forbid four - even if the professors condones my absence - my school work is being compromised. Some interviews would probably require a student to be out of town overnight because of distance which would now be two days of missed classes and on top of all this what if a student had to miss another day of class because of sickness for even one more day? What a mess. How do people do all these interviews without blowing up their current Senior Fall Semesters?
Of course many dental applicants may have only one or two interviews, but looking at the DAT scores and grades posted on this board - many posters are high achievers and 6 to 8 interviews is a real possibility. Some might say - once those interviews are offered - just weed it down and go to the three best, but that would be foolish as an interview is not an admission. So you have to keep going until you get in.
Which takes us back to how does a dental student go to 5 to 8 interviews - during this coming Fall Semester without compromising their course work?
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