Advice- School's to apply

[TAD]

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Hi everyone,

I have been going crazy trying to whittle down my list of dental schools to apply to primarily for financial reasons (these suckers are expensive!). I would REALLY APPRECIATE any advice on which schools I should nix based on my stats. I've already gone through and completely taken out any non canadian friendly schools🙂. I'm just finishing up my personal statement, but am aiming for July to submit my apps.

Here are my academic stats:

Canadian student - Honours Bachelor of Science (Specialist in Psychology, Minor in Physiology)

BCP: 3.30 SGPA: 3.10 Nonscience GPA: 3.67 CGPA: 3.40
Canadian DAT--> AA/TS: 20 Bio: 21 Chem: 19 Reading: 19 PAT: 18

Halfway during my undergraduate program, AADSAS declared that Psychology would no longer be a science designation regardless of the degree your university gave you. Obviously, this change screwed me over a little. In terms of my grades, first year was a royal bomb, but I had a huge upward trend going from 2. something in first year to no less than 3.6 in each of my subsequent years.

Extracurriculars/Work:
- Summer volunteering abroad in dental clinics
- Over 2000 hours at a pedo dental office
- 200 hours at various general practices in my area
- Recognized in a few published papers
- Over 3000 hours as a research assistant in a child development lab and cognitive neuroscience lab
- Office manager of health and wellness clinic and pedo dental office

Schools:

Midwestern- Arizona, Loma Linda, U of Pacific, Colorado, Conneticut, Howard, U of Florida, Nova, Midwestern- Illinois, U of Illinois, Tufts, Boston, Maryland, Michigan, Detroit Mercy, Minnesota, Creighton, Nebraska, UMDNJ, Columbia, Buffalo, NYU, Case Western, Ohio State, Oregon, Pittsburgh, Temple, U Penn, Meharry, Baylor, U of Texas San Antonio, U of Texas Houston, Utah, Roseman, Washington, Marquette

THANK YOU!😍

 

[mikkay77]

I don't know your race, but if you are caucasian then I'd recommend removing Meharry and Howard. They accept very, very few white folks, so despite the fact that your stats are quite good for them, your chances are very poor.

 

[Member 8586]

I don't know your race, but if you are caucasian then I'd recommend removing Meharry and Howard. They accept very, very few white folks, so despite the fact that your stats are quite good for them, your chances are very poor.

sorry for not responding to the original post, but mikkay, i have similar stats and was wondering if you have received admission anywhere?

 

[mikkay77]

sorry for not responding to the original post, but mikkay, i have similar stats and was wondering if you have received admission anywhere?

No, but my DAT scores were worse last application (PAT 23/AA 19/TS 19 I think)- I am trying again! I updated my DAT scores but forgot to change 2016 to 2017 I guess. Good luck!

 

[SpaceCake]

Make sure you read these boards and identify which schools are friendly towards Canadians. A lot of schools accept a very small amount of Canadians, meanwhile others do not accept any Canadian.

 

[finchy86]

According says the following AADSAS regarding the University of Washington

The University of Washington DDS program admits only US citizens and permanent residents. There are no exceptions.

I assume you are a permanent resident if not then don't apply to UW.

 

[Muggs]

Also believe Tufts doesn't take any Canadian residents

 

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[TAD]

Hmm... I didn't see anything on the Tufts website or AADSAS suggesting they don't take Canadian students...

 

[TAD]

Thanks Finchy86!