ECs enough?

[coffinhaed]

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I will be applying this cycle, I have still to take the DAT come June. With my GPA 3.38 and sGPA 3.15 ish( still waiting on some grades)

I have tutored for a year, I am a mentor for incoming freshmen on scholarships. I Founded the Pre-Dental Club and I am the current president. I have been shadowing dentists for about 60 hours, and an ortho for about 30.

Through the club and networking I have gotten our members into volunteering at a homeless shelter dental clinic. I go there for 3 hours every week (started in March though). I am also in Leadership programs at University, and I will be working as a academic coach this fall by helping students on probation get back on track since I had my own comeback after freshmen year.

My dentist while I shadowed let me pull a tooth out and that was pretty awesome. at the shelter its pretty much assisting third year dental students working on patients (I love it) from a school I will be applying to.

I was wondering if this is good enough. I have been trying to work in the dental field but no one seems to be hiring.


Thanks for the help guys

 

[coffinhaed]

I forgot to mention. I will be doing a sim lab course over the summer

 

[jmt1984]

I will be applying this cycle, I have still to take the DAT come June. With my GPA 3.38 and sGPA 3.15 ish( still waiting on some grades)

I have tutored for a year, I am a mentor for incoming freshmen on scholarships. I Founded the Pre-Dental Club and I am the current president. I have been shadowing dentists for about 60 hours, and an ortho for about 30.

Through the club and networking I have gotten our members into volunteering at a homeless shelter dental clinic. I go there for 3 hours every week (started in March though). I am also in Leadership programs at University, and I will be working as a academic coach this fall by helping students on probation get back on track since I had my own comeback after freshmen year.

My dentist while I shadowed let me pull a tooth out and that was pretty awesome. at the shelter its pretty much assisting third year dental students working on patients (I love it) from a school I will be applying to.

I was wondering if this is good enough. I have been trying to work in the dental field but no one seems to be hiring.


Thanks for the help guys

I think that you can make a convincing case that you investigated the profession. I think that you could integrate these experiences into your personal statement and it will be good.

Not sure I would mention the tooth pulling, might be hard to explain.

 

[coffinhaed]

I hope so man thanks. For extracting thing I just said that I was shadowing this dentist and he let me pull one out (in a formal way)



.anyone else??

 

[MrBeans]

The adcoms will be the ultimate deciders if the amount of ECs you put in are "enough."

Your ECs that you've done this far certainly won't hurt your application; asking if you did enough is a much to ambiguous question to be posed on these forums.

 

[coffinhaed]

I am definitely not stopping my ECs. What I really meant was, are these enough to apply with and continue.

 

[MrBeans]

I am definitely not stopping my ECs. What I really meant was, are these enough to apply with and continue.

Again, this is too ambiguous to have a quantitative comment.

I would argue that you are pretty well set to apply to any school; you show dedication to the field, and a philanthropic nature. Then again, many people have these attributes, as well.

Different schools draw different applicants. At one school you may be considered a fantastic candidate because of your many ECs. On the same token, you may be considered lacking in ECs at another institution.

Because ECs, Jobs, Volunteerism, and the like is so dynamic, this is why the first major hurtle to cross when being evaluated for dental school is the quantitative measures: GPA and DAT.

Might I add that, judging from others' experiences, your GPA will certainly not keep you out of dental school 😉

 

[mmu4487]

Your EC's look impressive. I would focus all your attention to your DATs. You need to wreck them to compensate for your gpa, its a lil on the lower side but just do well in your last year of college and i think you will be fine! Remember to do the academic update in your applications when needed! good luck!

 

[coffinhaed]

Again, this is too ambiguous to have a quantitative comment.

I would argue that you are pretty well set to apply to any school; you show dedication to the field, and a philanthropic nature. Then again, many people have these attributes, as well.

Different schools draw different applicants. At one school you may be considered a fantastic candidate because of your many ECs. On the same token, you may be considered lacking in ECs at another institution.

Because ECs, Jobs, Volunteerism, and the like is so dynamic, this is why the first major hurtle to cross when being evaluated for dental school is the quantitative measures: GPA and DAT.

Might I add that, judging from others' experiences, your GPA will certainly not keep you out of dental school 😉

Thanks! hopefully I can take good DAT and clear the hurtle 😀

Your EC's look impressive. I would focus all your attention to your DATs. You need to wreck them to compensate for your gpa, its a lil on the lower side but just do well in your last year of college and i think you will be fine! Remember to do the academic update in your applications when needed! good luck!

Thank you for the kind words 😀 I definitely am trying hard to get in! Good luck with Dental School!

 

[TerpFan]

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