Endo Residents: What are my chances?

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Hi Everyone,

I am going to make this as concise as possible. What are my chances into endo? I attend a P/F school and unfortunately failed a 1 credit course my first semester of dental school due to personal reasons. I also am not sure how strong my endo-related experiences are, and not sure if my ECs make up for that. I do not plan to take the ADAT as of right now - I am not a good standarized test taker. I am a current D3.

Stats:

• DAT: 18 TS, 19AA
• Undergrad GPA: 3.5 cGPA, 3.3 sGPA (slacked senior year after I was accepted)
• Dental School: P/F (1 F in 1 credit course 1st semester, P everything since.. I started filling out the PASS application to see it, and it does not ask for my transcript since I do not have a GPA. Perhaps they will not see it? No GPA, No Rank)

EC:

• ADEA District Commissioner
• ASDA Chapter President
• ADEA Chapter President
• Sports Dentistry Chapter President
• Endo Chapter Co-President
• Co-Founder of Nonprofit that provides free dental care in foreign country
• Endo TA
• Accepted into two-year program that sends dental students to an underserved commity for 4 months to treat patients and train with GPR residents (minus implants)
• Founded Marketing Agency

Research:

• 6 projects including college and dental school (3 in dental school), mostly small
• Published Prostate Cancer (not dental) research from Yale Med (published in college, but still will include in my resume)
• I am currently in one endo research project, but I am secondary author and not that involved tbh. I am looking to get involved in another study this semester that is endo-related with a resident.

Publications:

• 8 Publications (7 articles, 1 prostate research. none endo).. looking to publish 1-2 endo articles this semester

Scholarships/Awards:

• 10 including college and dental school (6 of those in dental school only, so far)

I know that I have more EC than the average applicant. I love being involved and I really do not even do it for a resume, it just happen to all add up. That said, I do not feel that I have that much endo. Do I have enough to at least be competitive? What should I be doing this last semester before applying? Am I screwed with the F? Thanks for all the help.

 

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Thoughts? 🙂

 

[UMich_2018]

I think you're competitive
Apply broadly. Every single person I know who wanted to do endo was accepted (either directly or after 1 GPR) and your ECs are impressive.

Worse case is you do a GPR (choose an endo heavy one) and then apply again and get accepted.

Use your D4 year spending time in your endo clinic and helping out to show interest.

 

[toof14]

I think you're competitive
Apply broadly. Every single person I know who wanted to do endo was accepted (either directly or after 1 GPR) and your ECs are impressive.

Worse case is you do a GPR (choose an endo heavy one) and then apply again and get accepted.

Use your D4 year spending time in your endo clinic and helping out to show interest.

Thanks! How do you know which GPRs are endo heavy?

 

[UMich_2018]

Thanks! How do you know which GPRs are endo heavy?

Hmm im not totally sure. You can always email individual programs you are interested in to ask directly how much endo they do.
or im sure here on SDN someone has asked this question before so maybe it's somewhere in the dental resident search threads

but the easiest & more accurate way is to ask the programs directly and you can even inquire about students who have successfully matched into endo afterwards.

Good luck!! 🙂

 

[toof14]

Hmm im not totally sure. You can always email individual programs you are interested in to ask directly how much endo they do.
or im sure here on SDN someone has asked this question before so maybe it's somewhere in the dental resident search threads

but the easiest & more accurate way is to ask the programs directly and you can even inquire about students who have successfully matched into endo afterwards.

Good luck!! 🙂

This is very helpful, thank you so much! And I appreciate the encouragement - I was really worried about that grade.

 

[UMich_2018]

This is very helpful, thank you so much! And I appreciate the encouragement - I was really worried about that grade.

We've all failed at something. Just because yours is listed on a transcript doesn't mean you won't make an amazing endodontist one day. And your ECs are the most impressive ive seen.
Let the bad grade go and focus on the future.
Glad to help- good luck!!

 

[endosuccessgroup]

You have great extracurriculars, but you're going to get passed over by most programs if you don't take the ADAT and have a decent score if your dental school is pass/fail. When I last checked, there were at least 12/50 programs that required the ADAT. Rank/GPA is a big indicator to programs if you can succeed in residency didactics. Being a new graduate will also give you the disadvantage, but there are a handful of programs that accept new graduates.