I think dental school is beginning to be overrated. I don't mean anything to anybody that is in school. It has always been a dream of mine to become a dentist. I screwed up my first year of college and now I am paying for it. I have a 3.0 gpa. I know that it is low but schools don't have to treat a person like crap for having a lower gpa. They all say we look for trends in gpa, I call B.S. on that one. All they care about is the number right in front of them. The worst are Case Western and UNLV. They were horrible to me in informal interviews that I have had. (they came out to give a presentation at our university) They were extremely rude and basically said maybe you better look at something else. Maybe I will. I have worked hard to get my gpa up and it will never be where they want it. I have done all kinds of volunteer work and even did weeks of humantarian aid in Peru out of my own pocket, because they say they look at that. Bull@$%*, they don't look at that either. UNLV says that only 60% of application is gpa, actually it is like 95%. I don't have anything against people with high gpa's they deserve to get in, but there are some of us, lower level people who would make excellent dentists but who cares, right! The only school that treated me like an applicant and not a number was Dalhousie. I actually did well on the DAT and they tell me that, and supposedly that matters, but I don't see where. I respect anyone that does dental and I don't want to discourage anyone this is just a shot at the whole wacked out application process and what a joke that it is. You make one mistake and you'll never be a dentist.