2005 applicant for 2006

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I am a junior now and I wanted to apply to enter in 2006. does anyone have an idea as to when i should apply? Also I am taking kaplan starting feb-end of april and taking dat in may . I heard that I should apply june 1. Please help!

 

[quakinator]

look into it, cause this last year I think AADSAS actually accepted applications on the 16th of May not June 1st. Get it in early. I have an AADSAS # 1500-1700 and I applied on June 28th so you be the judge. I would have applied earlier but I didn't take the DAT until the 26th of June.

 

[gatorchc27]

I am a junior now and I wanted to apply to enter in 2006. does anyone have an idea as to when i should apply? Also I am taking kaplan starting feb-end of april and taking dat in may . I heard that I should apply june 1. Please help!

I'm in the same situation, a junior graduating in 2006. I'm going to start the Kaplan course in Jan I think. I hope to get my stuff in as soon as they take it. But, I know how procrastinating goes....when should I start approaching professors for lor?

 

[rocknightmare]

try now.

if you are happy with the professor and thye know you. go visit them for one time have a chat talk about the football team..
then next time ask them for a letter..
and tell them that the deadline is aobut a month away. don't say may

 

[QuietGuy]

I'm in the same situation, a junior graduating in 2006. I'm going to start the Kaplan course in Jan I think. I hope to get my stuff in as soon as they take it. But, I know how procrastinating goes....when should I start approaching professors for lor?

Yes!!! Find professors that know you and ask for letters now!!! That will give them time to write you one. Don't make the mistakes that I made.

 

[anya14]

I would have applied earlier but I didn't take the DAT until the 26th of June.

Don't wait until you take your DAT to submit your AADSAS application. The only thing you need to have ready by the time the application comes out in May is your personal statement. You can send in your DAT scores and LORs later (you can even bypass AADSAS by sending your letters directly to the schools). The reason you don't want to wait for your scores is b/c it takes AADSAS 4-6 weeks to process your application before they actually send it to dental schools.

good luck

 

[bspeedy00]

As someone that waited til september to submit the AADSAS....DONT WAIT!

 

[dyarhea]

I'm in the same situation, a junior graduating in 2006. I'm going to start the Kaplan course in Jan I think. I hope to get my stuff in as soon as they take it. But, I know how procrastinating goes....when should I start approaching professors for lor?

approach your professors right now.
i believe aadsas start taking application material on May 1, 2005 for the 2006 cycle. you probably should try to get a committee letter or individual letters and get them on file at your school career center...or wherever that has a letter of reference service.

telling your prof that deadline's a month away probably's not a good idea. it'll seem like you procrastinated. But, at the same time you dont want to get screwed over...try " the deadline is April 1st"

 

[dyarhea]

I am a junior now and I wanted to apply to enter in 2006. does anyone have an idea as to when i should apply? Also I am taking kaplan starting feb-end of april and taking dat in may . I heard that I should apply june 1. Please help![/QUOTE

aadsas starts PROCESSING completed application on June 1st, 2004 for the 2005 cycle....keep checking the aadsas website is probably the most accurate way to keep up-to-date on the 2006 cycle.

i had the same timeline that you're planning, I actually took kaplan from mid march to end of april and took the dat in mid-may. then i started working on the aadsas application. the personal statement took me a very long time to complete because of revisions. then i submitted my app on june 8th.
perhaps you should try start working on your personal statement right now, then get as many ppl (counselors, english prof, pre-dent advisors) to read it and give you feedbacks.

 

[luder98]

If I were you, I would not come to the professor at the beginning of the semester and tell him/her that you will ask for a LOR. I would rather spend extra time to come to his office discuss about homework/labs and anything in life (when appropriate). Make sure he/she knows you not just through the knowledge, but also you as a person and what you do, how you do it in life. Also make sure you do your part as a student at your best. You don't need to be the #1 in his/her class, but you need to show him/her your effort. When you think he/she knows you enough and will be willing to write a thoughtful LOR, then ask for the LOR and give him/her 3-4 weeks prior your deadline. When you hand in the form, make sure you write an informal essay about yourself and what you have done lately in his/her class and in life. Also include a stamped envelope with the address of AADSAS. One of my two recent professors actually offered to write me a LOR before I even asked. They know we need those letters. Show that to them in your action/efforts but not words if possible. Good Luck. And, make sure you apply early.

 

[quakinator]

Don't wait until you take your DAT to submit your AADSAS application. The only thing you need to have ready by the time the application comes out in May is your personal statement. You can send in your DAT scores and LORs later (you can even bypass AADSAS by sending your letters directly to the schools). The reason you don't want to wait for your scores is b/c it takes AADSAS 4-6 weeks to process your application before they actually send it to dental schools.

good luck

This is accurate, unless you are going to recieve a LOR from your undergraduate colleges Pre-professional Advisement Center (that is if your undergrad school has one). I was told by my advisor that he would be able to write a better letter, a more convincing letter after he had received me DAT scores. Either way it's up to you but you should take all things into consideration.

 

[Tzips]

I know i'm just repeating what everyone said, but I'll do it anyways - you really, really want to get your app to AADSAS asap. they took seven full weeks to process mine, and that was with calling them up every day as soon as the sixth week was over to annoy them. they must love me by now 🙂

And about the lors - my school committee didn't even bother sending it to AADSAS; they sent it directly to the schools to which i applied. for me, the essay was definately the rate-limiting step, because i spent so much time revising, having it checked by 3.5 million people, etc. which in retrspect was a big mistake because it delayed my app.

So i'll reiterate, in case you've made it this far - figure out what is humanly possible, and then do it a bit faster than that! 😉

Good luck!

 

[Biogirl361]

i will just add my .02 that i agree with basically everything people have said except for the lor part... since you can't send stuff to aadsas until may and most professors don't want to give you the letter and don't want to send 5+ copies out to schools... i asked for my letters around mid-late march and told profs that they should hang onto it until may 1st to send it out. i know of people that approached profs earlier and were told to wait and ask again in march. further, i know there are some horror stories of professors procrastinating, but in my experience all 3 of the lor writers i asked got the letter turned around in 2 to 3 days. and since i have gotten interviews at almost all my schools and the lor's have never come up, i am fairly certain that they were all good and at least somewhat thoughtful letters. so, i guess it is up to you to be the judge of your lor writers' personalities and whether or not they will get it done in a timely manner, but in my experience, dat, asking for lor's, and starting to work on personal statement are all best done in march. send away for your transcripts as soon as spring grades come out, they should be sent to you in a week and you can send them to aadsas. following this timeline should allow you to be ready to send in your application pretty soon after it comes out in may (earlier the better) and have your file be complete with aadsas shortly thereafter. i did it all exactly how i have outlined and my aadsas number is less than 50 and i have been in the first round of interviews at all schools and have avoided much of the hassle and worry that i know a lot of other people are experiencing who applied later. anyways just throwing my experiences out there for what they're worth. good luck to ya 🙂