People with high stats....please stop being self-concious

adizzle87 · May 14, 2009

Okay I think a lot of people are probably feeling the same way here....we often get people who are "worried" about their application, post up their 3.7+ GPAs and ask what their chances our. The average for the typical DS accepted student is 3.3-3.4sGPA and 19-20AA/TS 19PAT.

Now if have a high GPA but a low DAT, I understand why you'd like to post your concerns up on this forum. If you have a high DAT but a low GPA I would understand that as well. But seriously if you have a 4.0, is it really necessary to post it and ask if your score of 20 is good enough to get in? Anyone with me on this?

ucla2134 · May 14, 2009

adizzle87 said:
Okay I think a lot of people are probably feeling the same way here....we often get people who are "worried" about their application, post up their 3.7+ GPAs and ask what their chances our. The average for the typical DS accepted student is 3.3-3.4sGPA and 19-20AA/TS 19PAT.

Now if have a high GPA but a low DAT, I understand why you'd like to post your concerns up on this forum. If you have a high DAT but a low GPA I would understand that as well. But seriously if you have a 4.0, is it really necessary to post it and ask if your score of 20 is good enough to get in? Anyone with me on this?

i would say the average now is HIGHER than that.
but i agree with you

somethinpositiv · May 14, 2009

adizzle87 said:
Okay I think a lot of people are probably feeling the same way here....we often get people who are "worried" about their application, post up their 3.7+ GPAs and ask what their chances our. The average for the typical DS accepted student is 3.3-3.4sGPA and 19-20AA/TS 19PAT.

Now if have a high GPA but a low DAT, I understand why you'd like to post your concerns up on this forum. If you have a high DAT but a low GPA I would understand that as well. But seriously if you have a 4.0, is it really necessary to post it and ask if your score of 20 is good enough to get in? Anyone with me on this?

Newbies. You gotta break em in. We were once young and naive. It's not common knowledge that a 20 DAT is a good score, it's something you learn. They will learn in time.

adizzle87 · May 14, 2009

somethinpositiv said:
Newbies. You gotta break em in. We were once young and naive. It's not common knowledge that a 20 DAT is a good score, it's something you learn. They will learn in time.

Haha come on, lets be real now. If you go in taking a test and you don't know what your goal is and/or what a good score should be.....there is something really odd about that (too much book reading and not enough common sense?)

somethinpositiv · May 14, 2009

adizzle87 said:
Haha come on, lets be real now. If you go in taking a test and you don't know what your goal is and/or what a good score should be.....there is something really odd about that (too much book reading and not enough common sense?)

That describes a lot of predents...

atlanta478 · May 14, 2009

adizzle87 said:
Haha come on, lets be real now. If you go in taking a test and you don't know what your goal is and/or what a good score should be.....there is something really odd about that (too much book reading and not enough common sense?)[/QUOTE

Don't sell yourself short. Your goal should be 30 on all parts.

Contach · May 14, 2009

somethinpositiv said:
That describes a lot of predents...

everyone thinks they are exceptions to the stereotype. who are you fooling?

Dentanomics · May 14, 2009

I must respectfully disagree w/ the OP. I am not bragging at all but I have those type of stats (although not from a great undergrad) and I only received 3 interview requests out of the 8 schools that I applied to. I was not accepted until mid-March either. Obviously the better your GPA and DAT scores the better your chances, but i do not think that any application is a for sure thing to be accepted.
So maybe those people w/ great scores do have a reason to be concerned or looking for advice.

Chesnok · May 14, 2009

atlanta478 said:
adizzle87 said:

Haha come on, lets be real now. If you go in taking a test and you don't know what your goal is and/or what a good score should be.....there is something really odd about that (too much book reading and not enough common sense?)[/QUOTE

Don't sell yourself short. Your goal should be 30 on all parts.

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Nice russian avatar. (Dzhentel'meni udachi)

bigstix808 · May 14, 2009

adizzle87 said:
Okay I think a lot of people are probably feeling the same way here....we often get people who are "worried" about their application, post up their 3.7+ GPAs and ask what their chances our. The average for the typical DS accepted student is 3.3-3.4sGPA and 19-20AA/TS 19PAT.

Now if have a high GPA but a low DAT, I understand why you'd like to post your concerns up on this forum. If you have a high DAT but a low GPA I would understand that as well. But seriously if you have a 4.0, is it really necessary to post it and ask if your score of 20 is good enough to get in? Anyone with me on this?

im pretty sure no matter how many people here complain and get annoyed by those "above average" SDN'ers who get worried about their stats and post the "what are my chances?" threads, it is the duty of the "veteran" SDN'ers to set them straight...usually by either...
1) use the search function
2) use the search function
3) use the search function
4) use the search function
5) quit ya bitchin, and use the search function

as annoyed as they are, they will always show up every cycle...learn to love it! 😎

S40 · May 14, 2009

I'm with ADIZZLE. If you have stats like that and you're posting questions like this you'll probably end up being an annoying classmate that asks bad questions throughout dental school. Do bigstix and the rest of us afavor and use the search function!

somethinpositiv · May 14, 2009

Contach said:
everyone thinks they are exceptions to the stereotype. who are you fooling?

I never claimed to be the exception to anything, I'm clearly still a pre-dent. I wasn't trying to fool you, Captain Canada.

pinetar321 · May 15, 2009

okay back to the original thread topic.
Yes, I find it extraordinarily annoying when people with absurd GPAs and DATs show up asking IF they will get into dental school. If you want someone to pat you on the butt and tell you you've done well with you life, call your mom. Its a little embarrassing to those of us with (whatever you guys agree on) average scores.

iBeast · May 15, 2009

Most people lie.

Just sayin'.

Habslive · May 16, 2009

adizzle87 said:
Okay I think a lot of people are probably feeling the same way here....we often get people who are "worried" about their application, post up their 3.7+ GPAs and ask what their chances our. The average for the typical DS accepted student is 3.3-3.4sGPA and 19-20AA/TS 19PAT.

Now if have a high GPA but a low DAT, I understand why you'd like to post your concerns up on this forum. If you have a high DAT but a low GPA I would understand that as well. But seriously if you have a 4.0, is it really necessary to post it and ask if your score of 20 is good enough to get in? Anyone with me on this?

I agree with you, but I don't blame them for two reasons.

1. They are just beginning the process that a lot of us have been going through for at least a year, so they figure we know what we're talking about.

2. Standards keep going up every year.

Contach · May 18, 2009

somethinpositiv said:
I never claimed to be the exception to anything, I'm clearly still a pre-dent. I wasn't trying to fool you, Captain Canada.

So you think you have too much book smarts, and don't have enough common sense? Okay, you can describe yourself like that, but I don't feel the same about myself.

Slack3r · May 18, 2009

Dentanomics said:
I must respectfully disagree w/ the OP. I am not bragging at all but I have those type of stats (although not from a great undergrad) and I only received 3 interview requests out of the 8 schools that I applied to. I was not accepted until mid-March either. Obviously the better your GPA and DAT scores the better your chances, but i do not think that any application is a for sure thing to be accepted.
So maybe those people w/ great scores do have a reason to be concerned or looking for advice.

If you're not getting interviews with high stats it's probably based on the intangibles in your application. EC's, personal statement, LORs, etc. If you've got substantially above average states w/o interviews, maybe the rest of your app is lacking? (Not attacking you, just saying...since we ARE talking generalities)

JTSLai · May 18, 2009

adizzle87 said:
Okay I think a lot of people are probably feeling the same way here....we often get people who are "worried" about their application, post up their 3.7+ GPAs and ask what their chances our. The average for the typical DS accepted student is 3.3-3.4sGPA and 19-20AA/TS 19PAT.

Now if have a high GPA but a low DAT, I understand why you'd like to post your concerns up on this forum. If you have a high DAT but a low GPA I would understand that as well. But seriously if you have a 4.0, is it really necessary to post it and ask if your score of 20 is good enough to get in? Anyone with me on this?

totally agree, but sometimes it's kind of funny to read the pandemonium and concern in their posts, then you wonder how they would answer questions during the interviews without being really awkward and diffident and it makes it all the more entertaining...perhaps a separate subforum for these posts may help with the amount of threads we have to look through, but yes, there are wayy too many redundant threads with high GPA and high DAT scores asking for help.

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