DAT finished? Advice/reassurance?

[mikkay77]

---

Members do not see this ad.

Hey guys, this is my first post but I do a lot of lurking. Just took the DAT and this is what my take-away print out looked like:
PAT- 21 (89.2 percentile)`
Quantitative Reasoning- 19 (92.9 percentile)
Reading Comprehension- 21 (88.9 percentile)
Biology- 18 (72.1 percentile)
General Chemistry- 18 (68.4 percentile)
Organic Chemistry- 17 (51.8 percentile)... agh.
Total Science- 18 (79.2 percentile)
Academic Average- 19 (85.4 percentile)
GPA-3.1 total/3.0 science at a relatively prestigious large state university
I've been looking around and seeing a lot of 24's so I am freaking out. My advisor thinks I'll be fine, esp since I am an "interesting candidate" (female, artist, multilingual, teach Spanish, Hmong, and Japanese speaking kids, am shelter coordinator at a domestic abuse shelter... etc) and thinks I don't need to retake the DAT, and should get in somewhere. I really am quite worried, and everyone on here looks like they DO just as much stuff as I do, but pull off 3.7's and 24's at the same time. What do you guys think? Retake? No? Stop freaking out and relax? Take a year off to do more stuff and retake the test?
Thanks in advance for the advice guys, I really appreciate it.

 

[wall1two]

Hey guys, this is my first post but I do a lot of lurking. Just took the DAT and this is what my take-away print out looked like:
PAT- 21 (89.2 percentile)`
Quantitative Reasoning- 19 (92.9 percentile)
Reading Comprehension- 21 (88.9 percentile)
Biology- 18 (72.1 percentile)
General Chemistry- 18 (68.4 percentile)
Organic Chemistry- 17 (51.8 percentile)... agh.
Total Science- 18 (79.2 percentile)
Academic Average- 19 (85.4 percentile)
GPA-3.1 total/3.0 science at a relatively prestigious large state university
I've been looking around and seeing a lot of 24's so I am freaking out. My advisor thinks I'll be fine, esp since I am an "interesting candidate" (female, artist, multilingual, teach Spanish, Hmong, and Japanese speaking kids, am shelter coordinator at a domestic abuse shelter... etc) and thinks I don't need to retake the DAT, and should get in somewhere. I really am quite worried, and everyone on here looks like they DO just as much stuff as I do, but pull off 3.7's and 24's at the same time. What do you guys think? Retake? No? Stop freaking out and relax? Take a year off to do more stuff and retake the test?
Thanks in advance for the advice guys, I really appreciate it.

relax, you got this.

 

[dentalWorks]

Hey guys, this is my first post but I do a lot of lurking. Just took the DAT and this is what my take-away print out looked like:
PAT- 21 (89.2 percentile)`
Quantitative Reasoning- 19 (92.9 percentile)
Reading Comprehension- 21 (88.9 percentile)
Biology- 18 (72.1 percentile)
General Chemistry- 18 (68.4 percentile)
Organic Chemistry- 17 (51.8 percentile)... agh.
Total Science- 18 (79.2 percentile)
Academic Average- 19 (85.4 percentile)
GPA-3.1 total/3.0 science at a relatively prestigious large state university
I've been looking around and seeing a lot of 24's so I am freaking out. My advisor thinks I'll be fine, esp since I am an "interesting candidate" (female, artist, multilingual, teach Spanish, Hmong, and Japanese speaking kids, am shelter coordinator at a domestic abuse shelter... etc) and thinks I don't need to retake the DAT, and should get in somewhere. I really am quite worried, and everyone on here looks like they DO just as much stuff as I do, but pull off 3.7's and 24's at the same time. What do you guys think? Retake? No? Stop freaking out and relax? Take a year off to do more stuff and retake the test?
Thanks in advance for the advice guys, I really appreciate it.

Well, Im sure you have a chance. But odds are against you. Both your sGPA and TS are bellow average, this puts you at an automatic disadvantage.

Unique applicants (such as ur self) are nice, but schools still prefer academically strong individuals. When each major dental school in the nation (especially the out-of-state friendlies) receives between 2000-4000+ applicants for a class of 100, these schools WILL be selective and they will pay strong attention to DAT+GPA combo.

If you are determined to apply as-is, I STRONGLY recommend you to aim at alot of schools (20+).

If you want to fix your stats and apply when your application looks better, you should do post-bacc + retake.

 

[bing12]

is your sgpa exactly a 3.0? or is it a 2.9, and you are rounding it up to a 3.0?

how many credits are in your BCP?

your scores are ok, but your TS is the real problem. you didnt get above an 18 in any of your sciences, which can be a real issue, especially with a low gpa.

 

[mikkay77]

Thanks for your response- it is exactly a 3.0 (3.013 I think) and I believe I have 36 credits in my BCP as of now. I am an Evolutionary Biology major and Environmental Sciences minor, and will be putting a few more classes in there before I graduate. If you take out my freshman year my GPA is much better... but I don't know how much that matters.

 

[mikkay77]

Thanks for the advice, I will certainly be applying for a large amount of schools. I didn't think 20 was reasonable? But I will definitely consider upping it to that many!

 

[mikkay77]

Thank you 🙂 !

 

[bing12]

whats ur ethnicity if you dont mind me asking? are you a URM?

 

[mikkay77]

Caucasian.

 

[jonishere5]

Hey guys, this is my first post but I do a lot of lurking. Just took the DAT and this is what my take-away print out looked like:
PAT- 21 (89.2 percentile)`
Quantitative Reasoning- 19 (92.9 percentile)
Reading Comprehension- 21 (88.9 percentile)
Biology- 18 (72.1 percentile)
General Chemistry- 18 (68.4 percentile)
Organic Chemistry- 17 (51.8 percentile)... agh.
Total Science- 18 (79.2 percentile)
Academic Average- 19 (85.4 percentile)
GPA-3.1 total/3.0 science at a relatively prestigious large state university
I've been looking around and seeing a lot of 24's so I am freaking out. My advisor thinks I'll be fine, esp since I am an "interesting candidate" (female, artist, multilingual, teach Spanish, Hmong, and Japanese speaking kids, am shelter coordinator at a domestic abuse shelter... etc) and thinks I don't need to retake the DAT, and should get in somewhere. I really am quite worried, and everyone on here looks like they DO just as much stuff as I do, but pull off 3.7's and 24's at the same time. What do you guys think? Retake? No? Stop freaking out and relax? Take a year off to do more stuff and retake the test?
Thanks in advance for the advice guys, I really appreciate it.

If you have a low GPA it helps to make up for it with a high DAT score, your DAT score is good but its not stellar, I would apply to A LOT of schools, if that doesn't do an SMP.