Does your undergrad school help?

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Hi,

Another question I had was whether your undergrad school helped for dental school? Not in the sense that some undergrad schools are considered more "prestigious" than the other schools, but I was talking with several dental school students, and they said that for example, Harvard likes to keep Harvard students in the system - I'm not sure if that's entirely accurate, but I was wondering if it was the same for other places too?

Thanks!

 

[dentalprodigy]

Yes & no I'll explain. No, it doesn't really matter all that much where you got your BS as long as it was a 4 year college.

But still..some schools "prefer"graduates from certain networks. For example, there are allot of rutgers graduates at UMDNJ. This mostly had to do with the location of nearby universities imo.

In the grand scheme of things though that "preference"is insignificant in my opinion (GPA&dat trump all)
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[Trilby]

In the med school application process, many schools rank colleges into tiers and give more weight to candidate gpas from higher tier schools. For example, an IV or top 25 student would have a 0.1-0.2 point bump vs a non-flagship state/private school student.

I imagine dental schools practice a similar method. After all, adcoms aren't clueless and will probably weigh gpas from schools with harsher grading and higher caliber peers higher. As dentalprodigy said however, this would only apply to schools with some sort of connection to yours.

Based on my school's statistics, we feed heavily into 3 specific dental schools. They probably know the rigor of our academic program as I've had friends with gpas below their class averages that were accepted.