2014 Age and DS 2006-2013

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Roughly 5% of the 2013 entering class is over the age of 30. The percentage may a little skewed since a few schools (Western, Minnesota, and Puerto Rico) appear to have reported erroneous numbers. For 2013, the youngest was 18 (UCSF) and the oldest 52 (Indiana). Over the period 2006-2013, the grand prize goes to the 56 year olds that matriculated in NYU (2007), West Virginia (2010) and Minnesota (2011).

 

[Julian Delphiki]

Wow! An 18 year old entering dental school! The only way I think you could do that is if: you started Kindergarden at 5 instead of 6 (so you had to have been born sept-nov ish) and you skipped a grade in elementary school. So then you would be 16 when you graduated HS and entered college. Then you would do the 5 year program at UOP. So after 2 years of undergrad, you'd be 18 when you finally entered the UOP dental school. But looks like that person entered UCSF, so I don't even know how.

 

[dp93]

Wow! An 18 year old entering dental school! The only way I think you could do that is if: you started Kindergarden at 5 instead of 6 (so you had to have been born sept-nov ish) and you skipped a grade in elementary school. So then you would be 16 when you graduated HS and entered college. Then you would do the 5 year program at UOP. So after 2 years of undergrad, you'd be 18 when you finally entered the UOP dental school. But looks like that person entered UCSF, so I don't even know how.

got accepted without finished bachelors degree? i know in foreign countries they start school much earlier around age 4.

 

[Julian Delphiki]

got accepted without finished bachelors degree? i know in foreign countries they start school much earlier around age 4.

I know that with the UOP 5 year program, you don't need a bachelors. You simply spend 2 years completing the undergrad requirements and then you can apply to the UOP dental school.

 

[UOP123321]

i know some of my classmates are 16 and in the six years program 3 undergraduate and 3 dental school
hopefully could make it too i am 17 and i am in the six-years program

 

[y3nd0]

Wow! An 18 year old entering dental school! The only way I think you could do that is if: you started Kindergarden at 5 instead of 6 (so you had to have been born sept-nov ish) and you skipped a grade in elementary school. So then you would be 16 when you graduated HS and entered college. Then you would do the 5 year program at UOP. So after 2 years of undergrad, you'd be 18 when you finally entered the UOP dental school. But looks like that person entered UCSF, so I don't even know how.

Uncommon, but totally doable.

When I was an undergrad, I knew a couple kids that skipped high school altogether. They were part of a program for "gifted" children, which accepts only about 4-5 kids per year. I met one of them in my honors chemistry class, and she was the sweetest girl. Needless to say, yes, she was very very intelligent, and 4.0'ed all three quarters of honors chem, and I have no doubt she received 3.8+ in all three quarters of honors o-chem (probably 4.0'ed them all).

She graduated with a degree in neurobiology when she was 18. She planned on applying to medical school but put it off because she was afraid they would frown upon her young age.