DAT hella done

[c3p]

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well i am done and hopefully my scores are okay enough

i studied for about 2 solid months (first month was about 4 hours/day) after that for about 2 weeks i studied for about 6 hrs/day.....then my school started so i had to do that stuff (plus football season started) so i hardly studied....then studied like crazy for the last 3 days (during those three days i decided to watch chad's videos for GC)

first of all, senior at UCSD:
cGPA = 3.7
sGPA = 3.7
(both probably up to 3.7 to 3.8ish after this year)

PAT - 21
QR - 16
RC - 17
GC - 21
Bio - 20
OC - 27
TS - 22
AA - 20


bio- i really dont know what else to say other than just think centrum "from a to zinc" because they had it all. i thought it was doable but also had two questions i had never even seen/material known before. i was on the bubble for 4 questions and had to guess on them, so i probably missed them.

chem- pretty straight forward, one question which i didnt really know but who cares i shoulda got higher.

ochem- i have always been good at ochem so i thought i would get 30 for sure, however, i had to guess on 2 of them so..yea...sucks...i finished this section in about 10-12 mins tops.

pat- was doable....thank God for CDP (5 test version). i would say the only section which i found to be hard, and probably where i missed most of my questions was pattern folding. it was a lot harder than CDP....i constantly got 13-15 on CDP but on the real dat i probably missed 7. also i couldnt answer one of the questions in cube couting because i accidentally clicked an answer twice and it unchecked the answer just as the section ended...sucks. oh well. holepunching is easy, but i thought CDP holepunching was pretty easy too. a few random TFE were hard and one or two keyhole but other than that it was straight forward. some of the angle ranking was difficult.....but we all knew this.

rc- i cant say anything but i really thought i would do a lot better on this than i did. i felt i SnD'd most of the answers....but my second passage, floating bridges, really screwed me over. other two were spinal chord and epidemiology. those two were whatever.

qr- i felt it was quite hard not because the math was hard but some of them took a while to even understand what they wanted until after like 25 seconds...i felt like i did just about my score so i wasnt as shocked. but i know peeps which a lower score who got into reputable dental schools so i dont care.


materials:
crack DAT PAT
chad's videos - GC
cliff's AP
destroyer (2007 version)
gen chem text book
ochem notes from my class
notes from Alan (through someone else...thanks)
schaums bio AP (i read through the book in two days...dont know why)
kaplan book
topscore

topscore scores:

TS1

AA- 21
TS - 23
Bio - 22
GC - 23
OC - 23
QR - 18
RC - 19
PAT - 22


TS2

AA - 21
TS - 21
Bio - 21
GC - 18
OC - 25
QR - 21
RC - 20
PAT - 22


TS3

AA - 20
TS - 21
Bio - 21
GC - 20
OC - 21
QR - 24
RC - 16
PAT - 21


CDP scores were: 18, 19, 20, 20, 22


Extracirrics:
shadowing - 100 hrs
medical research institute - 2 years working
various clubs, leadership clubs, etc.
various church activities


do you guys think i have a shot anywhere? im from cali, and would like to stay here but im not against going out of the state if need be.


thanks.

 

[chromosome21]

congratulations! you're good to go 🙂

 

[wantVCUdental]

wow, very solid. congrats
when did you take your TS tests?
from your post, i gather Bio was random, but it seems that cliffs ap+KBB+destroyer was okay?
did you get those random "which of the following does not belong to echinoderms? and you get like 5 mystic creatures that you never heard of like in Destroyers?" or was it really broad and easy?

For your G-Chem and Ochem, you focused on destroyer and kbb?

You've used so many sources, can you point out which source did you think was the best for each section? thanks

 

[hausee]

Congratz! Great OC score!!!

good luck.

 

[ZzZzSleepyhead]

Grats dude!

 

[c3p]

thanks guys...

and VCU- i took TS1 7 days prior, TS2 6 days prior, and TS3 2 days prior
for bio, yea those things were good enough, you dont need much else...preparing for those random questions is impossible
i didnt get those abstract destroyer questions, maybe like one but more was just weird experiment stuff....hard to explain

i didnt study ochem much but for gchem yea destroyer was good and chad's vids were good but kbb was usefull so you should be good to go.

i think chad/textbook for chem, ochem my own notes, bio cliffs for sure, pat crack dat pat, qr was probably destroyer/kbb i didnt study for math much and it showed

 

[gentile1225]

congrats man! awesome job? however, your ts score, i calculated, was a 22.667, shouldn't that be rounded up to a 23?

 

[americanpierg]

congrats man! awesome job? however, your ts score, i calculated, was a 22.667, shouldn't that be rounded up to a 23?

TS works on a different scale, it takes the total number of science questions you got out of 100 and grades that on a standardized scale. Bio holds more weight than the other two sections. While his 27 Ochem meant he got one wrong in that section, his 20 in bio is like 6-7 wrong. If he got a 27 in bio and a 20 in Ochem instead, then he probably would've gotten that 23.

 

[c3p]

TS works on a different scale, it takes the total number of science questions you got out of 100 and grades that on a standardized scale. Bio holds more weight than the other two sections. While his 27 Ochem meant he got one wrong in that section, his 20 in bio is like 6-7 wrong. If he got a 27 in bio and a 20 in Ochem instead, then he probably would've gotten that 23.

yea it sucks cuz if 22 TS is 95.3% then 23 woulda looked that much better. and theres no excuses, i cant believe i missed so many in bio.

 

[c3p]

americanpierg--

how much do u think my low qr/rc will hurt...it really brought my AA score down. also is my PAT score competitive enough? where do the weigh in PAT score, since it is unique to the dats i would assume sort of high? you seem like you have all this stuff down and you are in dental school. thanks.

 

[americanpierg]

americanpierg--

how much do u think my low qr/rc will hurt...it really brought my AA score down. also is my PAT score competitive enough? where do the weigh in PAT score, since it is unique to the dats i would assume sort of high? you seem like you have all this stuff down and you are in dental school. thanks.

I don't think QR will hurt you at all, because you did well in the sciences and your GPA is quite high. Some schools have a 17 in all sections cutoff rule but I have no idea how strictly they follow it. RC might raise some eyebrows though. I don't remember my exact scores, but I had a 24 AA and my QR was really low and it never came up in my interviews. My RC on the other hand was really high and I got a few compliments on that. It seems some schools really like high RC and science scores. I didn't really find out that RC was so important until my interviews.

I had a 21 PAT too and that was like low 90% so I assumed that was about an "average" competitive score. I think 21 is good enough to be really good at some schools, while still competitive enough at schools liking high DATs (ie UoP). Now your GPA is 0.7 higher than mine, so I think you're golden lol

ive been in these forums so long that ive seen that if you have above a 3.2 and a 20AA, you have a really, really good chance of gettig in somewhere if you apply to enough schools. If your scores are below that in both, then you have a pretty bad chance of getting in. If one score is lower, and you greatly compensate it with the other, you're back to the really, really good side.

3.0 GPA 24AA, you're in good shape.
3.8 GPA 18AA, you're in good shape.
3.0 GPA 18AA, you will have a very, very tough time getting in.

 

[c3p]

I don't think QR will hurt you at all, because you did well in the sciences and your GPA is quite high. Some schools have a 17 in all sections cutoff rule but I have no idea how strictly they follow it. RC might raise some eyebrows though. I don't remember my exact scores, but I had a 24 AA and my QR was really low and it never came up in my interviews. My RC on the other hand was really high and I got a few compliments on that. It seems some schools really like high RC and science scores. I didn't really find out that RC was so important until my interviews.

I had a 21 PAT too and that was like low 90% so I assumed that was about an "average" competitive score. I think 21 is good enough to be really good at some schools, while still competitive enough at schools liking high DATs (ie UoP). Now your GPA is 0.7 higher than mine, so I think you're golden lol

ive been in these forums so long that ive seen that if you have above a 3.2 and a 20AA, you have a really, really good chance of gettig in somewhere if you apply to enough schools. If your scores are below that in both, then you have a pretty bad chance of getting in. If one score is lower, and you greatly compensate it with the other, you're back to the really, really good side.

3.0 GPA 24AA, you're in good shape.
3.8 GPA 18AA, you're in good shape.
3.0 GPA 18AA, you will have a very, very tough time getting in.

yea 21 pat is 93.2sih...but thanks for the breakdown. i dont mind uop at all but my #1 choice is ucsf which im not sure with some of these scores. but i guess we shall see.

 

[ZzZzSleepyhead]

I don't think QR will hurt you at all, because you did well in the sciences and your GPA is quite high. Some schools have a 17 in all sections cutoff rule but I have no idea how strictly they follow it. RC might raise some eyebrows though. I don't remember my exact scores, but I had a 24 AA and my QR was really low and it never came up in my interviews. My RC on the other hand was really high and I got a few compliments on that. It seems some schools really like high RC and science scores. I didn't really find out that RC was so important until my interviews.

I had a 21 PAT too and that was like low 90% so I assumed that was about an "average" competitive score. I think 21 is good enough to be really good at some schools, while still competitive enough at schools liking high DATs (ie UoP). Now your GPA is 0.7 higher than mine, so I think you're golden lol



ive been in these forums so long that ive seen that if you have above a 3.2 and a 20AA, you have a really, really good chance of gettig in somewhere if you apply to enough schools. If your scores are below that in both, then you have a pretty bad chance of getting in. If one score is lower, and you greatly compensate it with the other, you're back to the really, really good side.

3.0 GPA 24AA, you're in good shape.
3.8 GPA 18AA, you're in good shape.
3.0 GPA 18AA, you will have a very, very tough time getting in.

Nice observations 😵.

 

[allstardentist]

solid job

 

[c3p]

solid job

im sorry i forgot to give you a shoutout but here it is so thanks for all the help your site is great and you always posted responses to my questions, however dumb they may have been. so thanks. people should really check it out if they havnt already.