how do dental schools select people after interview?

[dentist32721]

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Hi all,
I think most of my interviews went well and according to what my other friends,
their interviews went well too....
what do you guys think on their selection process?

 

[Frank22]

I believe at most schools the interviewer writes down his or her perception of the interviewee, and that information is passed along to someone else (or a group of individuals) who will make the decision as to whether the interviewee will be admitted.

 

[nonociceptors]

I think at most schools, your actual app is still more important. The interview lets them filter out obvious mismatches or just people who totally bomb. I mean just speaking from experience, I've met dental students who were pretty terrible communicators or had poor personalities, which left me wondering how they survived the interview process. This made me believe their app was just too good to turn down despite their flaws

 

[Frank22]

I think at most schools, your actual app is still more important. The interview lets them filter out obvious mismatches or just people who totally bomb. I mean just speaking from experience, I've met dental students who were pretty terrible communicators or had poor personalities, which left me wondering how they survived the interview process. This made me believe their app was just too good to turn down despite their flaws

Generally speaking, the most important factor to gaining admission is how well one performs on the interview. You may feel that a person is a poor communicator or don't find his or disposition likable, but one can't assume on that basis that he or she is a poor interviewee.

 

[PlasmaMembrane]

Based on what I've been told by various admissions directors: as @nonociceptors said, it's still an overall evaluation even after your interview. The interview lets them drop those that are not a good fit for the school or are absolutely awful socially, but beyond that your application (stats, extracurriculars, etc.) is still evaluated when determining if they will accept you. More people do well enough on the interview than there are acceptances given out, so you are still ranked and measured by other means. Some schools will score your interview and weigh that quantitatively with everything else, others use the interview as a pass/fail measure of social ability and then go with stats as the deciding factor. Outside of performing terribly, the interview by itself is rarely if ever the most important factor.

 

[ajj70]

They put everyone's app on a board and toss darts. If you are lucky enough to get a dart in your app, you get a phone call on Dec 1st 😆

 

[nonociceptors]

Generally speaking, the most important factor to gaining admission is how well one performs on the interview. You may feel that a person is a poor communicator or don't find his or disposition likable, but one can't assume on that basis that he or she is a poor interviewee.

What's the story behind that image? It doesn't even have the DAT haha. I agree the interview is important but I've had the ucla admissions director say to me personally that the interview is only make or break for a small section of applicants. A small amount of people are "unrejectable" after having been interviewed while an equally small portion are "unacceptable." For the rest of the people who don't stand out in significantly positive or negative ways, they use your paper app to decide. Unlv is transparent with their admissions formula, for example, and the interview is only a fraction of an individuals score whereas the gpa and dat are more heavily weighted.