My UNOFFICIAL prerequisite guide to Dental Schools

Dental Monst3r · Apr 1, 2009

Alright,

For the past few days I have been working on this list of all dental schools in the United States and all of their prerequisites required for admission. I provided the following:
1. School Name
2. The source/link of the page I found the pre-req's
3. The prerequisite courses and the amount of semester hours (or time required)

I hope this is helpful for many of you to look up when needed...

cyrano · Apr 1, 2009

Thanks!!

Dental Monst3r · Apr 2, 2009

no problem

enfuego · Apr 2, 2009

Lots of reputation points for you!

Thanks for the list - lays out everything clearly. I was getting sick of digging through dental school webiste (especially since some of them are not the best designed sites I've ever seen).

Dental Monst3r · Apr 2, 2009

Also, several of the links to the school sites are not hyperlinks (they are in a lighter blue color) so to bring it up, everyone needs to copy and paste them into their web browser.

Jack Mayhoffer · Apr 2, 2009

Dental Monst3r said:
Alright,

For the past few days I have been working on this list of all dental schools in the United States and all of their prerequisites required for admission.

While you were working on this, I was pulling a Nick Manning. Cheers.

PDizzle · Apr 2, 2009

Hey Monst3r, nice work! Instead of that great info being buried under 2,000, "What are my chances?", threads, how would like for it to be part of PreDents.com?

PM me if you want to contribute that info in a more accessible and permanent way. Of course due credit will be given to you on the website. 🙂

Regards...

The Dizzster...

PDizzle · Apr 2, 2009

Repeat....sorry 🙁

PDizzle · Apr 2, 2009

Repeat....sorry 🙁

nhitb · Apr 2, 2009

thank You!!

Dental Monst3r · Apr 2, 2009

Dental Monst3r said:
Also, several of the links to the school sites are not hyperlinks (they are in a lighter blue color) so to bring it up, everyone needs to copy and paste them into their web browser.

Ok, that was my bad. I fixed the non-hyper links and turned them into hyperlinks. Ctrl+click all of the sites and it will work.

Here is the new file.

Kahr · Apr 2, 2009

Wow, this is eye-opening! Here I was thinking there was some "stadardization" of pre-req courses the ADA required all dental schools to put forth, and anything else was just "recommended". And what I refer to is: 1 year bio, gchem, ochem, english, physics.

Now I'm seeing everything from biochemistry, micro, 1 year calculus(harvard, go figure), 4 semesters bio, etc. Are they just trying to make this as difficult as possible for us? The only "extra" I saw that I'm not too irritated about was biochemistry, since it seems a large number of the schools require it, also means I can get a minor in chemistry with just that added on to my load.

My question is, has it always been so random among dental schools, or was there a time when they all went along the same standard set?

12345a · Apr 2, 2009

thanks...much props

smurf528 · Apr 2, 2009

Thanks so much. This will help me a lot.

Mazmel · Apr 3, 2009

im having trouble opening the document. when I open it it brings me to a "Convert File" window, and gives me the following options:

-Plain Text
-Encoded Text
-Rich Text Format (RTF)
-HTML Document
-Single File Web Page
-XML Document
-Outlook Address Book
-Person Address Book
-Recover Text from Any File
-Schedule & Contacts
-Windows Write
-Word 6.0/95 for Windows & Macintosh
-Word Perfect 5.x
-Word Perfect 6.x
-Works 6.0 & 7.0
-Works 7.0
-Word 97

I have a Dell- do I need a Mac to open the file? I have tried many of these options, and gibberish comes up on a document.

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks! 🙂

enfuego · Apr 3, 2009

Mazmel said:
im having trouble opening the document. when I open it it brings me to a "Convert File" window, and gives me the following options:

-Plain Text
-Encoded Text
-Rich Text Format (RTF)
-HTML Document
-Single File Web Page
-XML Document
-Outlook Address Book
-Person Address Book
-Recover Text from Any File
-Schedule & Contacts
-Windows Write
-Word 6.0/95 for Windows & Macintosh
-Word Perfect 5.x
-Word Perfect 6.x
-Works 6.0 & 7.0
-Works 7.0
-Word 97

I have a Dell- do I need a Mac to open the file? I have tried many of these options, and gibberish comes up on a document.

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks! 🙂

It didn't work on my Mac - I had to open it as RTF, and then re-save it as a .doc

Try this:
This is the original version, not the updated version with links

AggieDDS · Apr 3, 2009

Thanks a lot for the info! Would be great if someone did this for LOR requirements 😉

Mazmel · Apr 4, 2009

it worked 🙂 thank you so much!

its absolutely amazing, and such a great help! 😀

PDizzle · Apr 4, 2009

Mazmel said:
im having trouble opening the document. when I open it it brings me to a "Convert File" window, and gives me the following options:

-Plain Text
-Encoded Text
-Rich Text Format (RTF)
-HTML Document
-Single File Web Page
-XML Document
-Outlook Address Book
-Person Address Book
-Recover Text from Any File
-Schedule & Contacts
-Windows Write
-Word 6.0/95 for Windows & Macintosh
-Word Perfect 5.x
-Word Perfect 6.x
-Works 6.0 & 7.0
-Works 7.0
-Word 97

I have a Dell- do I need a Mac to open the file? I have tried many of these options, and gibberish comes up on a document.

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks! 🙂

Just a quick FYI. The original file was a ".docx", not a ,".doc". Dotx is the Word 2007 version. If you try to open it up in Word 2003 or earlier, you get gibberish. You can download a Word 2007 compatibility patch that will enable you to read .dotx files. Don't know the link, but just google it, it's on Microsoft's website.

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