App. Timing

[FutureFLdds]

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I sent out my app online Aug. 25. My school committee is not going to be able to send out my LOR's until Oct. 1., and I am taking my DAT on Oct. 6. My question is whether or not you think I will be able to interview before the holidays and also, do you know if AADSAS waits to send the application until they have received the LOR's, or will they forward them when received ? Thanks.

 

[UBTom]

Would your school's preprofessional advising committee send the LORs direct to the dental schools if you ask them to? I think that would cut those LORs' transit time in half if they are sent direct rather than having to go through another middleman (AADSAS).

Back when I was applying to dental schools I had my college's preprofessional committee send my LORs direct..

 

[ecdoesit]

quickest way is to ask your professors to send them directly 😛
if they are willing to send to as high as 50 schools...

 

[ItsGavinC]

Why is your committee sending out letters so late?

My undergrad had them all sent out by mid-May, because the LORs are often what hold up the application.

 

[ShawnOne]

What's the difference if the LOR's are being sent October 1st if the DAT is not being taken until October 6? The DAT will be the bottleneck here. Also, consider that the ADA takes a few weeks to send your DAT out. Your application will be complete by the end of October. Your LOR should be in by then. You have November and 3 weeks in December for adcoms to review and schedule a interview.

I think theres only a slight chance you'll be attending interviews this year. You'll most probably hear back from them to schedule you in 2004. (Seems interviews are scheduled 1-2 months in the future)

 

[Comet208]

Shawn,

The DAT is not really the bottlececk if he has good GPA and the rest of the application looks promising. many candidates are interviewed every year w/o having taken their DAT. but this doesnt happen to everyone. for the past cycle, people got interviewed in March and still got in.

FutureFLdds,
you will be a bit late in the process, but no worries if you have decent grades. just do well on the DAT and be on top of things to see what documnet needs to go where...

Comet

 

[ShawnOne]

really? I thought the DAT/GPA was the heart of the application