Honors College?

[SDTENNIS]

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Does Being in Honor's College (classes) in Undergrad help to get into Dental School?

 

[Mcglock]

No, and niether does shadowing, doing well on your DAT, or having a high gpa. These things can only hurt you.

 

[SDTENNIS]

well thank you!!! Does anyone have a non-sarcastic remark?! Would you reccomend taking honors college courses?

 

[Mcglock]

Sorry to be a d!%k. If you can do well in them, they will help you. If you can't handle them and you do poorly, they will hurt you. The key to everything you do to prepare for dental school is to make sure you challenge yourself, but you have to do well for it to help you. You don't have to be perfect, but don't overload yourself so much that you end up not being able to handle it.

 

[Blitzdt]

Sorry to be a d!%k.

I love it when people realize that they're an a$$hole.

 

[Blitzdt]

Does Being in Honor's College (classes) in Undergrad help to get into Dental School?

I think the question that you're trying to ask is how much will it help your application? My answer is that it will help you a great deal because it shows you're willing to challenge yourself. At your interviews, make sure you bring that up.

 

[Turnerjo13]

If I remember correctly there is not a place on the AADSAS form to say that your classes are honors college. I personally did not have this problem but I seem to think my friend did. someone please correct my if I am wrong or explain how they showed their classes were honors level.

 

[Mcglock]

Wouldn't the honors classes show up on your transcripts?

 

[Blitzdt]

Wouldn't the honors classes show up on your transcripts?

Yeah it would. However, for some schools taking honors classes and be in the honors program are two different things. If you're in the honors program, you're required to take a certain number of honors classes per semester.

 

[I'mFillingFine]

Assuming you do well on them, honors classes and honors colleges absolutely help! It shows you take a proactive approach to challenging yourself and take advantages of opportunities offered at your school.

Additionally, if you have an actual honors college (or organized honors program), you're usually required to do some sort of research, paper, study abroad, etc...something you can feel good about, put on AADSAS, and bring up in your interview.

Especially coming from a big, public university, honors programs are a way to show that you weren't just "one of the crowd"

 

[SFPredent]

Honors courses can be put into the AADSAS application. When you are entering your classes there is a little pull down menu after you imput your grade for special circumstances or something (like repeat grade, corrected grade, honors course etc). I completed the honors program and took a ton of honors units and it was invaluable for my letters of rec and my application. It also gave me something to put under the scholarly achievement/ award section. I highly recommend it, especially in a big public institution (I went to a UC). Good luck!

 

[pacbum]

so I would say stay away from these classes...it's a lot more difficult, and in the long run it doesn't help you all that much. most schools don't really look at the classes you take, but rather the grades you get in the classes you take. rather than spending all that extra time studying for classes that really won't matter that much, I would involve yourself in EC's. Be involved in community service, or clubs...I mean there are sooo many things in college that predents don't take advantage of jsut because they are always studying for classes like these. I would say take these advantages, bc d-schools like to see well rounded people. just my opinion

 

[Flyingdentist]

In my experience the honors classes help the application. I would ALMOST go as far to say that a B in an honors course is better than an A in the regular course but that may be stretching it a bit. If you do well in the honors course most certainly it would benefit you.

 

[I'mFillingFine]

schools don't really look at the classes you take, but rather the grades you get in the classes you take.

I'm sorry to be argumentative, but I know that for a lot of adcoms, this simply isn't true. Though it may happen at some schools, perhaps asking someone in the admissions office what their priorities are would help clarify for the schools you're interested in....