any comments about this?

[phosphorylation]

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Hey! I hope everyones going good with this cycle.

I was just having this conversation with my friends the other day about the reason they require high GPAs and DATs for med school and dental school. Well, dental school to be specific.

Do you guys think they want high GPAs and DATs just because the same person who scored really good on those would typically be able to pass dental school, and they would have more trust in him to not drop out after the first or second year, since its pretty much an investment?

Or do you guys think that its merely due to the substantial amount of applicants, and using the GPA and DAT factor is just a way to narrow down as many people as they can?


or is it just a little bit of both?


thanks!🙂

 

[hockeydentist]

Not to long ago competion to get into dental school was hardly fierce, as it is now. I've talked to a couple of dentist who have been in the field for about 20 yrs, they told me that they had classmates that had below 3.0 and 15 dats scores.

 

[phosphorylation]

so i guess that when you really do think about it, its just the volume of applicants thats making the required GPAs and DATS to shoot through the sky for the last decade or so...

 

[hockeydentist]

Grades are an arbituary indicator of how well one will do in the profession of dentistry. Or at least in dental school, I've heard from multple admission offifcers the most successfull applicant were the ones that had b averages in college,had great handskills and knew how to balance the amount of work they got piled upon them.