I just finished my junior year and currently thinking about dental school. However, due to some personal reasons my GPA is just not as competitive as most of the pre-dental students. I decided to pull my grades up during my senior year while trying to also gain some more shadowing hours. I registered to take the DAT this upcoming August but I'm pretty confused on how this all works out. On the ADA website, it tells me to select the schools to send my scores to but I'm not applying this cycle. In that case, what does that mean? Will I still be able to use the DAT score that I'm about to take in August to apply next cycle?
Also, how many of you have taken a gap year before dental school? I just feel like I'll be too old for dental school and just really wouldn't want to graduate late and start my life late haha but at this point, I just don't have a choice due to my low GPA. I'm hoping to graduate with a ~3.4-3.5 cgpa and ~3.0 sgpa. What do you think my chances for dental school would be if I apply with such a low GPA? I know I would def need a much higher DAT score to compensate for my low GPA. What DAT score should I aim for to have a good chance of getting in? I'm currently scoring 19-20AA on DAT bootcamp and hopefully, the actual DAT is way easier and I can pull my overall AA up a couple points.
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