Hey so I'm in Biomedical Engineering at a Canadian University and I'm hoping to apply to dental schools in the States (most likely private one i.e. BU, NYU, Tufts...). I did pretty good first year, had like a 3.63 GPA but second year the engineering courses really brought me down. I'm sitting at a 3.17 right now, but i was just wondering whether anyone here knew if some dental schools look at the undergraduate degree when looking at your GPA. Im most likely gonna end up with a 3.3/3.4 GPA with DAT scores averaging around 21/22, just wondering whether I have a solid chance of getting into one of the private schools. Thanks!
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Im going to be attending one of the schools you mentioned. My interviewer talked about this, said that they do weigh heavily where you went to undergrad/ what classes you took. They said a lot of schools inflate their GPA by accepting people from easy ****ty undergrads and they don't like that.
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Ultimately, there is the BCP GPA (which is supposed to be heavily emphasized) that tends to be restricted to the more relevant science courses, as opposed to a lot of the math-related stuff that's a part of your GPA right now.
