How Does Aadsas Verify Applicant Entries??

[Driller23]

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I am just wondering if anyone here can tell me how AADSAS or the dental schools verify whether the information you provide regarding EC, work, research experience you completed, is accurate? How can they verify the # of hours you claim for some activity?

Some other application systems require you to put down a contact name, tele# and email for each activity you put down, which allows schools to actually verify this info.

So how is any of this regulated in terms of AADSAS and US dental schools?

I know that by interrogating you during an interview some big lies can be very well detected, but smaller issues and things like # of hours can easily be lied about.

Anyone knows to what extent applicants lie on AADSAS when it comes to EC/work/dental exp issues? I certainly don't lie just cuz I get uncomfortable if I ever lie. But lots of people are braver than I am in this respect.

 

[pbure]

I am just wondering if anyone here can tell me how AADSAS or the dental schools verify whether the information you provide regarding EC, work, research experience you completed, is accurate? How can they verify the # of hours you claim for some activity?

Some other application systems require you to put down a contact name, tele# and email for each activity you put down, which allows schools to actually verify this info.

So how is any of this regulated in terms of AADSAS and US dental schools?

I know that by interrogating you during an interview some big lies can be very well detected, but smaller issues and things like # of hours can easily be lied about.

Anyone knows to what extent applicants lie on AADSAS when it comes to EC/work/dental exp issues? I certainly don't lie just cuz I get uncomfortable if I ever lie. But lots of people are braver than I am in this respect.

i doubt anyone will admit to having lied..although i dont think its the biggest crime to perhaps lay it on a bit thick. but to make up stuff would be unacceptable.

for example..say you write you shadowed 150 hours..then they ask you 'ok..what are some of the procedures you sat in for and which ones appealed to you'? if the only thing you can muster up is 'uhhh..well..i saw some cavities being filled' then you could be in trouble.

interviews almost always ask you about your research experience also..but there is no way for them to call up thousands of dentists and employers so really, aadsas and the schools have no choice but to take your word for it.

 

[tinman831]

AADSAS only calculates GPAs (they won't verify anything else). While dental schools are probably not going to verify every EC on every application, they do have the ability to do so. All they have to do is call the school or institution in question and ask. You fill out the application using the honor system. They might not find out if you screw them over, but if they do, you'll be the one that is screwed.