Dental School Chances

[Dent4Lifee]

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Hey guys, I was hoping to go to Dental school but my gpa is about 3.58 (my school does not calculate the gpa for us and it separates the lab and lecture components for some courses and has them integrated for others so I can only estimate it). Also, I go to school at Waterloo University (in Canada) and have some job shadowing experience. I have not written the DAT yet, but plan to (as much as I can) get at least 20 in every category. Please let me know of any universities that you think I might be able to get into in the United States (applying to all would be way too costly and time consuming). Also, if there is another dental school internationally (I am willing to go overseas) that you think I would be able to get into, please let me know. Feel free to PM me or leave a post right here. Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thank you

 

[DrDientes]

3.58 is not a bad GPA at all, might be hard for you to get in to some US schools not because of your GPA (given your DAT are good), but because you are a canadian applicant. There are some schools that canadians still get into though check out SDN threads where others have asked those questions.

 

[dentalWorks]

I know Detroit Mercy accepts Canadian applicants.... and I "think" University of Michigan does too

Like the previous poster said, your biggest problem isn't your GPA, its that your Canadian.

 

[Dent4Lifee]

Thanks for the help guys

 

[Habbas]

i too am applying to US schools as a canadian resident, ive got gpa 3.6 and am writing the dat next week
hopefully it all works out, im applying to many of the canadian friendly schools, hopefully it all works out, if not im thinkig about applying to the UK as well

 

[mprs]

Both my brothers applied to american schools (we are canadian) and got many interviews. They also got in to 3-4 schools (the friendly ones such as detroit mercy). Their GPAs were around 3.6 to 3.7 but they did well in their DAT (20s for one, and mid 20s for the other).

What does this mean? Your GPA is actually pretty good. It all depends on your DAT and extra-curricular. I'd say work on what you can. I think if you can get solid DAT with nothing less than 20, I wouldn't want to say its guaranteed but you would have a very good chance. If you were to get an AA of something like 22-23, then that would certainly make a very good case for you as a potential candidate.

All in all, focus on the DAT (rather, focus on killing it). Its really not that hard to do really well in it with some hardcore studying 🙂 Your marks are fine.

 

[Dent4Lifee]

Both my brothers applied to american schools (we are canadian) and got many interviews. They also got in to 3-4 schools (the friendly ones such as detroit mercy). Their GPAs were around 3.6 to 3.7 but they did well in their DAT (20s for one, and mid 20s for the other).

What does this mean? Your GPA is actually pretty good. It all depends on your DAT and extra-curricular. I'd say work on what you can. I think if you can get solid DAT with nothing less than 20, I wouldn't want to say its guaranteed but you would have a very good chance. If you were to get an AA of something like 22-23, then that would certainly make a very good case for you as a potential candidate.

All in all, focus on the DAT (rather, focus on killing it). Its really not that hard to do really well in it with some hardcore studying 🙂 Your marks are fine.

Thank you, this definitely gives me hope and I will put my energy into killing the DAT. Congrats to both your brothers on their success..I do have one question/favour though..Would you by any chance happen to have a list of the schools they applied to? Thank you once again

 

[mprs]

They applied to a lot of schools (even non friendly ones, just because you never know). I think they heard back from 1 school but I'm not sure.

But in terms of what gave them an interview/accepted them, this is all I remember off the top of my head:

Detroit
Boston
Temple (or Tufts, not really sure which)
St. Louis
New York U

I don't really remember them all in great detail, but those are the ones I know they got interviews from. In terms of acceptances, they both got accepted to Detroit. Boston and St.Louis gave an acceptance as well.

Also you should think about applying to Canadian schools. One of them got accepted to UFT and the other got accepted to Western. Certainly, if you do really well on your American DAT, it wouldn't be a bad idea to practice some carving (Even though noone really looks at it) and take the Canadian. Your marks are borderline good enough for that as well, it would just need a good DAT to push you over the edge.

 

[Dent4Lifee]

They applied to a lot of schools (even non friendly ones, just because you never know). I think they heard back from 1 school but I'm not sure.

But in terms of what gave them an interview/accepted them, this is all I remember off the top of my head:

Detroit
Boston
Temple (or Tufts, not really sure which)
St. Louis
New York U

I don't really remember them all in great detail, but those are the ones I know they got interviews from. In terms of acceptances, they both got accepted to Detroit. Boston and St.Louis gave an acceptance as well.

Also you should think about applying to Canadian schools. One of them got accepted to UFT and the other got accepted to Western. Certainly, if you do really well on your American DAT, it wouldn't be a bad idea to practice some carving (Even though noone really looks at it) and take the Canadian. Your marks are borderline good enough for that as well, it would just need a good DAT to push you over the edge.

Thanks alot for the heads up. I really appreciate it!!