do i have a chance

[zingerz86]

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Should i go ahead and apply ... but where
i have 5 years experience in the field
gpa 3.3
DAt 17/17/18 but the lowest was bio and QR with a 15 =( i know... i can retake the DAT again but it won't be until end of NOV . Im freaking out and i have soo much pressure from my parents right.

 

[supraman]

Have you esubmitted yet? When did you take DAT? My GPA is right around yours and I have huge parent pressure as well. Bump for you

 

[Major Groove]

As the average at most schools appears to be 18/19 I imagine you have a shot, but you'd be the low end of the bell curve on that.

The experience should help. Just don't mention smoking crack with that hooker and you should be okay.

 

[zingerz86]

i just took it a week ago.

 

[zingerz86]

soo is there specific school i can apply with a chance. I don't want to like apply to bunch of school and waste my money. Poo what a dilemma. Yea i promise i won't do crack. 😀

 

[topdent1]

Have you esubmitted yet? When did you take DAT? My GPA is right around yours and I have huge parent pressure as well. Bump for you

Dude, I totally know what you know what you mean by parent pressure. In fact, I live in a community where everyone knows what everyone else is up to, what their kids are up to, gossip, etc. (pathetic if you ask me). I always try to block out the psi from my community but sometimes it's hard to ignore. There are huge expectations for me and my sister and not meeting par might just set me back for a while. I'm sure other people can relate to living in this type of family/community. I hope I at least get an interview!

 

[Roto Picante]

soo is there specific school i can apply with a chance. I don't want to like apply to bunch of school and waste my money. Poo what a dilemma. Yea i promise i won't do crack. 😀

I know someone from my university that got into Midwestern (a new school yes but an accredited school none the less) last year with a 16 on the DAT and a 3.5ish GPA. He was a great guy and was very personable face to face. The biggest thing he had going for him though was that he has served several years in the army. So I definitely think you have a shot at Midwestern. I think less people have applied there because this will only be their second class. Also, if people get into other schools, I doubt they would choose Midwestern. I have also heard that Indiana is a little more forgiving aswell. What state are you from?

 

[zingerz86]

Dude, I totally know what you know what you mean by parent pressure. In fact, I live in a community where everyone knows what everyone else is up to, what their kids are up to, gossip, etc. (pathetic if you ask me). I always try to block out the psi from my community but sometimes it's hard to ignore. There are huge expectations for me and my sister and not meeting par might just set me back for a while. I'm sure other people can relate to living in this type of family/community. I hope I at least get an interview!

yea same here... my entire family including distant family knows that im in the field and they expecting a dentist in the family. As for my community ... well you know how parents are how they compare kid like " oh their kid got interview every and just got into med school... why can't you be like them". Sigh I just get pissed and say like the usual " go adopt them". ahaha

 

[zingerz86]

soo is there specific school i can apply with a chance. I don't want to like apply to bunch of school and waste my money. Poo what a dilemma. Yea i promise i won't do crack. 😀

I know someone from my university that got into Midwestern (a new school yes but an accredited school none the less) last year with a 16 on the DAT and a 3.5ish GPA. He was a great guy and was very personable face to face. The biggest thing he had going for him though was that he has served several years in the army. So I definitely think you have a shot at Midwestern. I think less people have applied there because this will only be their second class. Also, if people get into other schools, I doubt they would choose Midwestern. I have also heard that Indiana is a little more forgiving aswell. What state are you from?

thanks for tip i'll apply there also.

 

[zingerz86]

BWT im from texas

 

[supraman]

yea same here... my entire family including distant family knows that im in the field and they expecting a dentist in the family. As for my community ... well you know how parents are how they compare kid like " oh their kid got interview every and just got into med school... why can't you be like them". Sigh I just get pissed and say like the usual " go adopt them". ahaha

haha same thing with me, it seems everyone knows I'm on the Dental route and once they hear of a friend with a son/daughter who got into a medical field, they lay it on me, where I couldn't care less!!!!!! Are you foreign by any chance?

 

[zingerz86]

haha same thing with me, it seems everyone knows I'm on the Dental route and once they hear of a friend with a son/daughter who got into a medical field, they lay it on me, where I couldn't care less!!!!!! Are you foreign by any chance?

yea im Vietnamese. Sad that pressure and high expectation always relate to foreigners. 😳

 

[Major Groove]

Ok, rant alert:

I am so glad I circumvented this whole "my kid's better than your kid!" bs because our society is so obsessed with people having to make $150,000 a year and be prestigious and super, ultra gifted or you're basically a worthless pile of ****. Thankfully I was able to actually enjoy my childhood.

If you don't count being "most likely to become the next Jeffrey Dahmer," which wasn't always a bad thing when it came to peer conflict. It's like, "sure, you can kick my ass, but maybe I'll eat your sister for breakfast!!"

Anyway, I've just had fun with it. The problem with people my age is we were raised to believe "do whatever you want, and be happy!"

That's my generation for you. "Follow your dreams!"

Then I hit the real world and the fact that exactly ZERO percent of everyone in America is happy slapped me in the face. Maybe 3 people EVER have done what they want for a living - John Holmes, for instance - and they usually wind up dead of overdoses, AIDS or meet some other horrible fate as a result of having simply too much damned fun. Well, that philosophy is a little tiny bit unrealistic.

Someone's got to mop up puke or clean up after the porno's over at the adult cinema.

Bottom line it's a highly confusing and horribly stressful society to be raised in. In my case I just hit a brick wall of disillusionment that I could not be an astronaut, a Nobel prize winner, climb Mount Everest and still raise a family and live in a cookie-cutter picture perfect suburb.

For you poor saps, it sounds like you're in for a worse fate - dealing with the resultant developmental issues related to NEVER being (good, pretty, smart, fast, rich...) enough to count as worthy of baseline respect. You are applying to Dental school for many reasons, but one is probably that it has been hammered into your head from birth that mediocrity is absolutely the worst possible fate.

Trust me, I know people like this. Happiness eludes them.

Me? I'm happy with a clean toilet seat in a public bathroom. I'm like, "ah, don't have to mop up diarrhea this time!"

🙂

edit: in case you're offended, which you probably are, this is intended to be funny. Life is funny. Laughter is a way of dealing with the immense volume of endless trauma to which we are all subject before we mercifully die. I am fairly happy, though, and will remain so even if I don't get into Dental school.

So if I pissed you off: sorry. Not intended. (peace)