DAT done for the third and last time!! Need opinions and school suggestions

[Maasfoor]

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Hi guys,
So I took the DAT for my third and last and it has improved a little. I have already started my application with AADSAS with my older scores and to speed things up I am going to call each school to see if they can accept a fax copy until they receive the scores from ADA/AADSAS. Below are the schools I already applied to and I need to add more schools to increase my chances of getting some interviews. My Science GPA is 3.29. Non-Sci. is 3.31 and Cumulative is 3.30 it's because I messed up the first few semester but my GPA for the last 67 credit hours is 3.73(mainly upper division Sciences). Do you guys think they look at it like that or they just look at the cumulative and science?
I have over 300 hours of dentistry shadowing + over 1000 hours of research + 40 hours at ER + was a member of a dental club in college.

Midwestern University College of Dental Medicine
Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health (AZ)
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Western University of Health Sciences (WESTU)
Loma Linda University (LLU)
University of Southern California Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry (USC)
Howard University (HOW)
University of Louisville (UL)
University of Missouri - Kansas City (UMKC)
Creighton University (CRE)
Columbia University College of Dental Medicine (CUL)
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (My home state )
Meharry Medical College (MEH)
Marquette University (MQT)

scores from first time:
PAT: 21
QR: 16
RC: 15
Bio: 17
Chem: 19
Org: 21
Total Sci: 19
AA: 17

Scores 2nd time:
PAT: 22 96.2%
QR: 17 65.7%
RC: 14 5%
Bio: 22 95.7%
Chem: 21 87.4%
Org: 21 87.6%
Total Sci: 21 92.4%
AA: 19 77.2%

Scores 3rd time:
PAT: 27 99.7%
QR: 21 96.4% (math destroyer will do the job for this section)
RC: 16 14.4% 🙁 (ran out of time on the last passage)
Bio: 24 98.9%
Chem: 20 79.8% 👎
Org: 23 94.4%
Total Sci: 22 95.6%
AA: 21 93.4%



I am going to take 1 or 2 graduate level science classes this coming fall + plus some other undergrad ( including A&P I and II) as they are required for some dental schools and maybe do more volunteering.
Let me know what you guys think and what other schools I could add to my list with my stats (I am a TN resident).

 

[PDizzle]

Your 3rd attempt was good but all three have real low RC's. By chance, is English a second language to you? It might help a little if it is.

Here's the deal...schools have to slice off a huge chunk of apps right from the get go in order to manage the huge application pool. How they do that is by establishing GPA and DAT cutoffs. 16 is pretty fair game for a cutoff score for most schools, even though the rest of your scores are fine.

Hopefully a school will only use the AA, TS and PAT for their DAT cutoffs and you will be OK.

Good luck. If you dont get any interviews you will have to retake the DAT once again. There are a lot of tricks and strategies in getting a good RC score. Look them up or ask on this forum.

 

[Golfguy]

UMKC
Meharry
Howard

I was wondering why you're applying to these three schools?

UMKC will only take a few states and TN isn't one unless you are a top 2% applicant. The others are typically URM.

Good job on the DAT!👍

 

[threechins]

Awesome scores! Congrats.
Your PAT is killer. The 21 is also very good.
Wish you the best!