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Hello all,
I'm going to give my stats and future ambitions for the upcoming cycle. A little bit of backbone info: I just decided to start applying myself to dentistry (last March, my senior year and college), so my application this cycle was a little thrown together.
I graduated in May 2016 with a B.S. in Biology. I currently have a pretty good gig working as a sterilization tech at a local periodontist office (started almost immediately after graduating). Whenever I'm not sterilizing instruments, I'm shadowing whatever surgery is going on (this translates to roughly 2-4 hours of shadowing per day). That being said, the doctors there have allowed me to expand my role, working with patient communication via post-op appointments and working with growth factors used in surgeries, to name a few. Recently, they've had me start shadowing at other places (starting with GD's), to see a little bit of everything and to network a little.
That being said, here are my other stats. By the next cycle they should be:
GPA: 3.51
Science GPA: 3.40
DAT: 17 AA and TS (taking it in late April, early May to boost it up)
Volunteer Hours: 153 (spending every Friday at a homeless shelter, racking up around 7 hours per week, as well as participating in local dental clinics)
Volunteer Hours: 100+ (including my job shadowing and shadowing other dentists)
I know the DAT is what's dragging me down the most, but I want to ensure that my other stats and experiences are at least in a ballpark range of decent, or on the right track.
Thanks,
CC
I'm going to give my stats and future ambitions for the upcoming cycle. A little bit of backbone info: I just decided to start applying myself to dentistry (last March, my senior year and college), so my application this cycle was a little thrown together.
I graduated in May 2016 with a B.S. in Biology. I currently have a pretty good gig working as a sterilization tech at a local periodontist office (started almost immediately after graduating). Whenever I'm not sterilizing instruments, I'm shadowing whatever surgery is going on (this translates to roughly 2-4 hours of shadowing per day). That being said, the doctors there have allowed me to expand my role, working with patient communication via post-op appointments and working with growth factors used in surgeries, to name a few. Recently, they've had me start shadowing at other places (starting with GD's), to see a little bit of everything and to network a little.
That being said, here are my other stats. By the next cycle they should be:
GPA: 3.51
Science GPA: 3.40
DAT: 17 AA and TS (taking it in late April, early May to boost it up)
Volunteer Hours: 153 (spending every Friday at a homeless shelter, racking up around 7 hours per week, as well as participating in local dental clinics)
Volunteer Hours: 100+ (including my job shadowing and shadowing other dentists)
I know the DAT is what's dragging me down the most, but I want to ensure that my other stats and experiences are at least in a ballpark range of decent, or on the right track.
Thanks,
CC
