Academically Dismissed

[Quest147]

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If you were academically dismissed from dental school and you had no extenuating circumstances, what are your chances of getting back in? I heard it can be done if you retake the courses that you failed, but where can you retake dental courses and an Anatomy class with cadavers?

 

[Firm]

Quest,
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[tinker bell]

Go to a state university and take anatomy, pharm, physio and get all A. Have those prof. write you good LOR
You will have good chance of getting back to dental school. Good luck.

 

[Frank Cavitation]

it's impossible to selectively re-take courses in dentistry because of the time-intensive clinic/lab component and fixed curriculum. it makes more sense to redo an entire year (or a few courses) and graduate a year later than your colleagues.

if you failed a year and was not offered a "make-up exam" (thus effectively kicked out) get the services of a lawyer immediately to see if your case can be argued. I am not kidding, this does work. If you don't manage to get back to dental school the next semester go ahead and do what tinker bell suggested but also keep an eye open for other career paths you may be interested in, because a number of schools specifically state they do not re-admit failed students.

 

[Quest147]

Thanks for the replies. It would be interesting to have something published each year on how many students are academically dismissed from each dental school.

 

[sfarid123]

Quest,
PM me your email address.

If you were academically dismissed from dental school and you had no extenuating circumstances, what are your chances of getting back in?


Hello,

I attended BU back in 95 and was dismissed due to academics; I am planning to apply back this year, but not sure if any of the dental schools will take me in because of (dismissal) on my BU transcript. Any tips or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

thanks

 

[Dr.SpongeBobDDS]

I know I tend to be the pessimist a bit too often on here, but if you failed out once you need to be sure you have what it takes (motivation and talent) to do it the second time around. There was a guy in my class who had flunked out the year before and was going through his freshman year for the second time with our class. Failed out AGAIN the second semester.

So now he's in debt ~$90,000 and the best job he can hope to get is teaching high school science. Not a good position to be in. 😱

 

[Biogirl361]

all this academically dismissed stuff is scaring me - how easy is it to fail a class in d school?

 

[Dr.SpongeBobDDS]

all this academically dismissed stuff is scaring me - how easy is it to fail a class in d school?

Pretty darn easy. But it's not that hard to get a C either. I think most people that fail classes either aren't working at potential (lazy) or are having something really unusual happening in their lives.

 

[PERFECT3435]

all this academically dismissed stuff is scaring me - how easy is it to fail a class in d school?

you can say that again. damn. i love sdn, but these kinda things really scare the hell out of me.

seriously, how many people have you known to fail from your class?

 

[cgt3477]

Remember that you also have dental lab classes with the science classes. Those that fail a science class or two or three usually do so because they didn't take the class seriously and study (not including physiology which is on a level all on it's own). If you put some effort it isn't difficult to pass per se (at least for the didactic portions).

Anyway last year a couple people from the 2006 class failed operative lab and the remediation...they had to repeat the entire year with us. Then this year two of my classmates failed dental anatomy lab and the remediation. They were probably offered the chance to repeat the year but I'm pretty sure one of them has opted out. It is sad too because I heard he was doing so well in all his other classes---he did practice and practice and practice for his waxings but he just couldn't manage the manual dexterity part. I'm not trying to scare anyone but it's a different ball game when it comes to lab-a lot of times practice is all that you need but there might be one or two that find out they don't have the manual dexterity for dentistry.

Just something to keep in mind-the people who are getting high 90s on their didactic courses aren't usually the same ones getting 90s in lab. It can be a shock for some people to fail a practical since some people have never failed anything before. (For a long time I thought that in lab they didn't give grades higher than a 93-that's how rare they can be-but I did see a 96...so there is hope )

 

[texas_dds]

its sad to see people make it all the way to the end of 3rd year and fail out - we have this girl who's crown comp (competency) patient DIED on the last day crowns could be seated - so she failed fixed, opted to take the summer remediation w/the disclaimer that she could NOT repeat 3rd year if she failed the summer. well guess what - some A hole prof failed her because a crown was a bit high (occlusion)
i hope she appeals! nice girl, good grades otherwise
a shame!

 

[sjdent]

Four people failed out of my class. Two repeated with the next class.

 

[trypmo]

its sad to see people make it all the way to the end of 3rd year and fail out - we have this girl who's crown comp (competency) patient DIED on the last day crowns could be seated - so she failed fixed, opted to take the summer remediation w/the disclaimer that she could NOT repeat 3rd year if she failed the summer. well guess what - some A hole prof failed her because a crown was a bit high (occlusion)
i hope she appeals! nice girl, good grades otherwise
a shame!

DANG! That's the first "horror story" I've heard about UTHSCSA, but it's extremely scary.
This person can appeal to some dean or another, can't she (I hope)? 🙁

P.S. Check your PM inbox.

 

[sfarid123]

Sorry, didn't mean to scare anyone...I didn't do too well with grades for a couple of reasons, I put tremendous amount of effort and commitment into studying but lacked studying skills and did not know how to study efficiently. Thus I got overwhelmed and burnt out. The second reason was I had family issues, which I needed time off to resolve. However I have never lost interest in dentistry and hopefully I will try to reach my goal of becoming an excellent dentist to serve my community. My main obstacle is dental schools do not take dismissed students, and consider family issues as common excuses. Do you suggest I should mention my previous experience in my application? Do schools do background checks regularly? Does ADA have a list of dismissed students?
Your insights will be greatly appreciated.