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I was rejected from a number of schools this cycle despite having scores that I thought were reasonable and a high GPA.

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PA: 29
QR :24
RC : 28
Bio :29
GC: 30
OC :30
TS :29
AA :28

I have a feeling my interview last time may have gone south, but I'm just hoping the top schools I apply to this time will at least be more willing to give me the benefit of the doubt. I studied for the sciences just looking at my notes from my prereqs. And I've always managed to do well in reading for any exam (SAT,ACT, in school). I guess all those times reading on a rainy day really made a difference.
 
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you know youre going to have to post up a picture of your score report for usto believe you right?

unbelievable scores.
 
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lol nice try, at least pretend to be excited.
 
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Kobe08 said:
I was rejected from a number of schools this cycle despite having scores that I thought were reasonable and a high GPA.

New breakdown
PA: 29
QR :24
RC : 28
Bio :29
GC: 30
OC :30
TS :29
AA :28

I have a feeling my interview last time may have gone south, but I'm just hoping the top schools I apply to this time will at least be more willing to give me the benefit of the doubt. I studied for the sciences just looking at my notes from my prereqs. And I've always managed to do well in reading for any exam (SAT,ACT, in school). I guess all those times reading on a rainy day really made a difference.
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you were rejected with THESE DAT scores???? or is this a RETAKE from like....this month?
if so, what were ur Scores lasttime that u were rejected with?
also, how the heck does one get such highscores?!?!?! that basically means u got NOTHING WRONG. WHAT ARE YOUUUUUU?! a martian!?!?
 
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Kobe08 said:
I was rejected from a number of schools this cycle despite having scores that I thought were reasonable and a high GPA.

New breakdown
PA: 29
QR :24
RC : 28
Bio :29
GC: 30
OC :30
TS :29
AA :28

I have a feeling my interview last time may have gone south, but I'm just hoping the top schools I apply to this time will at least be more willing to give me the benefit of the doubt. I studied for the sciences just looking at my notes from my prereqs. And I've always managed to do well in reading for any exam (SAT,ACT, in school). I guess all those times reading on a rainy day really made a difference.
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Just fyi, this is the highest recorded AA I have ever seen. Usually people can't break above 27AA.

Omg... I think you have the highest AA in the nation as of now.
 
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Kobe08 said:
I was rejected from a number of schools this cycle despite having scores that I thought were reasonable and a high GPA.

New breakdown
PA: 29
QR :24
RC : 28
Bio :29
GC: 30
OC :30
TS :29
AA :28

I have a feeling my interview last time may have gone south, but I'm just hoping the top schools I apply to this time will at least be more willing to give me the benefit of the doubt. I studied for the sciences just looking at my notes from my prereqs. And I've always managed to do well in reading for any exam (SAT,ACT, in school). I guess all those times reading on a rainy day really made a difference.
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You have gotta be :scared::scared:
 
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Are u serious man...

U basically got 1 wrong in each section except QR...where possible 4 wrongs...

How did u do this...eat/drink something different????
 
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Kobe08 said:
I was rejected from a number of schools this cycle despite having scores that I thought were reasonable and a high GPA.

New breakdown
PA: 29
QR :24
RC : 28
Bio :29
GC: 30
OC :30
TS :29
AA :28

I have a feeling my interview last time may have gone south, but I'm just hoping the top schools I apply to this time will at least be more willing to give me the benefit of the doubt. I studied for the sciences just looking at my notes from my prereqs. And I've always managed to do well in reading for any exam (SAT,ACT, in school). I guess all those times reading on a rainy day really made a difference.
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You got perfect (100/100) in the Sciences, yet 'only' 29 on TS?
 
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Whaaaa! u din get accepeted with these scores?

Did u like not have any shadowing,vounteer work etc on ur app cause
I noe a kid who, for his MCAT had a 31 and a staright 4.0 GPA not get accepted cause he had no co-curricular work at alll and i mean NOTHING...

but Serioulsy dude ur scores are out of this world...u shuld have applied to midwestern in illinois, the would considered you for sure
 
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Dental2000 said:
Whaaaa! u din get accepeted with these scores?

Did u like not have any shadowing,vounteer work etc on ur app cause
I noe a kid who, for his MCAT had a 31 and a staright 4.0 GPA not get accepted cause he had no co-curricular work at alll and i mean NOTHING...

but Serioulsy dude ur scores are out of this world...u shuld have applied to midwestern in illinois, the would considered you for sure
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31 on the MCAT is about a light-year away from 28 AA.
31 on CATs is about 85th percentile
28AA is.... 100%th percentile

This guy can walk into an interview wearing nothing but diapers with skid marks and he'll still get accepted.
 
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I would not say a light-year. It would be interesting to see how a 31'r would do on the DAT. I would bet 21-25 on the DAT. Have you looked at the rigor of the MCAT?

It's informatoin convered on the DAT wrapped up in passages/novel circumstances then twisted on its head by obtuse questions.

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31 on the MCAT is about a light-year away from 28 AA.
31 on MCATs is about 85th percentile
28AA is.... 100%th percentile

This guy can walk into an interview wearing nothing but diapers with skid marks and he'll still get accepted.
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OP: Best scores ever!
 
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yappy said:
I would not say a light-year. It would be interesting to see how a 31'r would do on the DAT. I would bet 21-25 on the DAT. Have you looked at the rigor of the MCAT?

It's informatoin convered on the DAT wrapped up in passages/novel circumstances then twisted on its head by obtuse questions.
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I was comparing percentile wise between the 2 scores. 31 is a fairly common number among pre-meds. 28AA on the other hand, is one in 15,000

And yes, MCAT is a more difficult test (I would know, I studied for it), even if you were to compare a 31 to a 21-25 on DAT, its still very far off from a 28AA.
 
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casper22 said:
Prevent remarks and also give us a chance to see how such a score sheet looks...till ofcourse I take the exam..HAHA
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i don't see why people always ask for pictures of score reports... it's just a simple piece of paper, there's nothing special about it. standard fonts, no special formatting...you could easily figure out the font sizes, fonts, and line everything up in word based on a sample, change the numbers, and print something out that looks as legit as the real thing. take a pic of that and you wouldn't be able to tell. the photoshops of a score report pic tend to be more of a giveaway though.

point being, either believe OP or don't but who cares about the score report...? it looks like he had near perfect grades at Northwestern so I wouldn't put it past him, but it sounds like he's got the emotion and personality of a file cabinet so he'll have his work cut out for him at interviews regardless...
 
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rockclock said:
i don't see why people always ask for pictures of score reports... it's just a simple piece of paper, there's nothing special about it. standard fonts, no special formatting...you could easily figure out the font sizes, fonts, and line everything up in word based on a sample, change the numbers, and print something out that looks as legit as the real thing. take a pic of that and you wouldn't be able to tell. the photoshops of a score report pic tend to be more of a giveaway though.

point being, either believe OP or don't but who cares about the score report...? it looks like he had near perfect grades at Northwestern so I wouldn't put it past him, but it sounds like he's got the emotion and personality of a file cabinet so he'll have his work cut out for him at interviews regardless...
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If it makes you happy...we here like to acknowledge some good Photoshop work..and hence ask for the score report..
 
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OP if you don't get in with those scores, it's probably because they don't allow trolls inside D-school. 😉
 
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a2ndragoon89 said:
OP if you don't get in with those scores, it's probably because they don't allow trolls inside D-school. 😉
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haha...well a 29 TS means he missed one science question and it had to be in BIO with 30's in the chemistries. pretty sure -1 on BIO drops you below a 29...

but all that's just details really. eventually someone will break 27AA (unless the test is set up that way without our knowing it)...maybe this was the guy, maybe he wasn't it. frankly it makes no diff to me.

and to those predents applying this cycle, don't stress over posts like these. adcoms will take a well-rounded 21-23AA over a flat 28AA who interviews like he's a moment from going postal in a heartbeat
 
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DWs says you have the highest scores in the Nation and you didn't get in.

Unless you were caught cheating or something big, this is definitely a troll.
 
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Mr PS09 said:
DWs says you have the highest scores in the Nation and you didn't get in.

Unless you were caught cheating or something big, this is definitely a troll.
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these are the new scores (if they're real). he's a reapplicant who didn't get in last cycle with his old scores.
 
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Yeah if OP ain't showing this ain't even legit. Even if he/she got these scores they still don't deserve to get into dental school because how arrogant can you get. You say breakdown but you don't even mention one word about how you got those scores. How many people have helped you out on here. I bet you didn't raise that PAT from 20 to a 30 without coming on here for tips. End of conversation. Obvious troll
 
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A breakdown doesn't just mean listing your scores. It also means explaining how you went, for example, from a 19 in the PAT to a 29, which to me seems even more unbelievable than your other score improvements.
 
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I'm ready to analyze pixel distortion at 2400x on a 30in display. Where's the lovely picture of said scores...

These scores will be the highest I've ever seen if true.
 
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glo1984 said:
I'm ready to analyze pixel distortion at 2400x on a 30in display. Where's the lovely picture of said scores...

These scores will be the highest I've ever seen if true.
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haha wow bringing in the big guns...hell of a display btw.

that was my whole reasoning behind: just figure out the formatting in word and print out whatever you want and it will look legit. you can't even go by the prometric stamp thing they do because i know people who took it at my prometric that didn't get that for some reason or another...
 
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rockclock said:
haha wow bringing in the big guns...hell of a display btw.

that was my whole reasoning behind: just figure out the formatting in word and print out whatever you want and it will look legit. you can't even go by the prometric stamp thing they do because i know people who took it at my prometric that didn't get that for some reason or another...
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Didn't get the stamp either.

I think us SDNers, and I speak for most of us, would like to see what a 28 AA looks like. Even if it's horribly photoshopped, we still want to see it haha.

I've been told by some friends (many of them 22+ AA), that DAT scores do not matter above 22, and the rest of your application + interview will determine your acceptance. I know a guy with 24AA that just got off the waitlist at a Midwestern school recently (his only acceptance), while a girl with a 21AA got into Harvard.

Schools needs to fill out all of their seats (5000) in total. Not every applicant can get 28 AA's haha.
 
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rockclock said:
and to those predents applying this cycle, don't stress over posts like these. adcoms will take a well-rounded 21-23AA over a flat 28AA who interviews like he's a moment from going postal in a heartbeat
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hmmm not exactly

Don't get me wrong, 21-23 is a great score and will get you in but a 28, thats an icon.

you gotta remember, schools take pride in reporting "our school is so special, people with 28s wanna come here"
 
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dentalWorks said:
hmmm not exactly

Don't get me wrong, 21-23 is a great score and will get you in but a 28, thats an icon.

you gotta remember, schools take pride in reporting "our school is so special, people with 28s wanna come here"
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schools can't report single student scores. maybe there's some sheet that they hand out at interviews or use internally that shows the range of DAT scores for the previous year, but that's not showing off to any other schools. what gets reported to ADEA publications is the average of the previous class...a 28 vs. a 23 is 5 more points going into an average that will be divided by a class of ~100. 5/100=0.05 which isn't even enough to get you an extra rounded-tenth half of the time and usually scores only get reported to 0.1. so no, no one is going to take a 28 with the personality and interview skills of a dead person just to show off.
 
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rockclock said:
schools can't report single student scores. maybe there's some sheet that they hand out at interviews or use internally that shows the range of DAT scores for the previous year, but that's not showing off to any other schools. what gets reported to ADEA publications is the average of the previous class...a 28 vs. a 23 is 5 more points going into an average that will be divided by a class of ~100. 5/100=0.05 which isn't even enough to get you an extra rounded-tenth half of the time and usually scores only get reported to 0.1. so no, no one is going to take a 28 with the personality and interview skills of a dead person just to show off.
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I've been researching people's DAT score, GPA, and extra curri- on predents.com. Most likely, people who had AA>26 actively involved decent extracurri- activities and had good GPA as well. I mean they got high DAT score not only because they were smart or a great test taker, but also they had great dedication and determination to pursue in dentistry. Assuming this, there is no one got 28 or 27, but has a dead person's personality and interview skills.
 
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rockclock said:
schools can't report single student scores. maybe there's some sheet that they hand out at interviews or use internally that shows the range of DAT scores for the previous year, but that's not showing off to any other schools. what gets reported to ADEA publications is the average of the previous class...a 28 vs. a 23 is 5 more points going into an average that will be divided by a class of ~100. 5/100=0.05 which isn't even enough to get you an extra rounded-tenth half of the time and usually scores only get reported to 0.1. so no, no one is going to take a 28 with the personality and interview skills of a dead person just to show off.
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Well, you know the ADEA book, they list a range of DAT scores that entering class (like 14-28 ~ for example)

Also, during the interviews, they sometimes give you this information ~ more as a barging-right, because after all, we are interviewing the school just as much as they are interviewing us.
 
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13 total posts, 1 of them drops these (dubious) scores on us....

....Yeah, I'd be skeptical too.

Honestly anyone with 28 as part of their hardware would not be rejected. BS BS BS, and not the bachelor of science kind.
 
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dantemac said:
13 total posts, 1 of them drops these (dubious) scores on us....

....Yeah, I'd be skeptical too.

Honestly anyone with 28 as part of their hardware would not be rejected. BS BS BS, and not the bachelor of science kind.
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He or she applied last time with a 20-21 I believe and got rejected with that. They recently *supposedly* got these scores and probably gonna apply again. Im calling this troll out.
 
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Oh crap! The Rockclock strikes again. This guy goes from thread to thread destroying posters with his pro-like-blog attacks. Sometimes I try to bait him but he never gets me. It's as if I am "RockBlock".

I think a school would take a flat applicant with this score. It's a remarkable score and will translate well into high boards - a good person to have at your dental school.

rockclock said:
schools can't report single student scores. maybe there's some sheet that they hand out at interviews or use internally that shows the range of DAT scores for the previous year, but that's not showing off to any other schools. what gets reported to ADEA publications is the average of the previous class...a 28 vs. a 23 is 5 more points going into an average that will be divided by a class of ~100. 5/100=0.05 which isn't even enough to get you an extra rounded-tenth half of the time and usually scores only get reported to 0.1. so no, no one is going to take a 28 with the personality and interview skills of a dead person just to show off.
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