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I know you should obviously apply to your state school and look for low cost schools, but besides that what else are you guys looking at?
Besides tuition, how did you guys narrow down the schools to apply for?
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Pre-reqs, locations, OOS interviewing and acceptance rates.
(I know that there will be some people saying "hotness" of the female dental students and I PRAY that they are not serious.)
(I know that there will be some people saying "hotness" of the female dental students and I PRAY that they are not serious.)
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I'm gonna wait for the new ADEA book to come out but in the mean time I'm just fiddeling with my list. Anyway, once I get the book I plan on first removing all OOS unfriendly schools, then finding which schools would be out of my reach stat wise (Like how ASDOH likes a ridiculous amount of volunteering and such) then just cutting that based on location and price.
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I made my list using the ADEA Guide. I made a list starting with my 3 in-state schools (UF, Nova, and LECOM) and then I wrote down every school that had above a 25% OOS acceptance rate. I think I had a list of about 30 schools at that point.
Then, I eliminated the schools that I didn't feel like I was a good fit with (I'm white, so research indicated I didn't have a great shot at Howard or Meharry).
Then I eliminated some of the schools that were close to that 25% OOS cutoff that I didn't have a strong desire to go to (a lot of schools on the west coast).
After all of that, I probably had around 20 schools, and I swapped out some of the schools that I considered to be on the "bottom" of the list with some schools that I would have highly considered with lower OOS acceptance rates that I just considered my "reach schools".
I applied to 20 schools in total, probably because I wasn't overly confident with my 20AA/19TS DAT scores, and I was told to apply broadly. Follow a similar approach and try to see which schools seem to accept people with stats like yours and you should get interviews.
Then, I eliminated the schools that I didn't feel like I was a good fit with (I'm white, so research indicated I didn't have a great shot at Howard or Meharry).
Then I eliminated some of the schools that were close to that 25% OOS cutoff that I didn't have a strong desire to go to (a lot of schools on the west coast).
After all of that, I probably had around 20 schools, and I swapped out some of the schools that I considered to be on the "bottom" of the list with some schools that I would have highly considered with lower OOS acceptance rates that I just considered my "reach schools".
I applied to 20 schools in total, probably because I wasn't overly confident with my 20AA/19TS DAT scores, and I was told to apply broadly. Follow a similar approach and try to see which schools seem to accept people with stats like yours and you should get interviews.
