How many did not enroll in post bacc?

[blankguy]

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How many of you did not enroll in a post bacc but fulfilled the requirements on your own and got the letter of recommendations on your own?

 

[mobius]

why do you have to enroll in post bacc? you can meet all requirements and get letters of recc in undergrad.

 

[blankguy]

I want to know how many do it on their own since at this point I won't be to enroll in post bacc. People I talked to(like deans, and post bacc directors) stress that it is advantageous to do so.

The motive being this thread aside from wanting to know and hear about what experience people doing it on their own, I also want to know if this makes a difference in the application, the recommendations from the post bacc program.

 

[mcataz]

Originally posted by blankguy
I want to know how many do it on their own since at this point I won't be to enroll in post bacc. People I talked to(like deans, and post bacc directors) stress that it is advantageous to do so.

The motive being this thread aside from wanting to know and hear about what experience people doing it on their own, I also want to know if this makes a difference in the application, the recommendations from the post bacc program.

People do post-bac for 2 reasons

1. to raise their GPA or rectify a weak academic record

2. they were non-science majors and they need to take the pre-req's

If you have a really spotty record with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or less, I would probably do post-bac. I can't significanly raise my GPA any longer but I'm finishing out the year to show that I have 2 full years of consistent work. That consistency will reassure dental schools that I won't flunk out if they admit me.

High DAT scores only show that you have the intelligence to succeed in dental. But it doesn't show how you do on a day to day basis. Coursework and grades demonstrate your work ethic. That's why if your transcript is full of inconsistencies like mine, it's almost not worth applying unless you do post-bacc Now, the amount of post-bacc work is debateable. UOP told me they want to see 2 years worth or 4 semesters/ 6 quarters of work. UMD Mercy in Detroit said two semesters would be adequate. Some places are okay with a year of post-bacc. Others want two years. It just depends

 

[mobius]

what other advantages are there to post bacc work?

 

[blankguy]

The catch is that in Boston, a lot of the post bac have GPA cutoffs of 3.2 or 3.3.🙄 It seems to be just for people who need the prereqs with decent GPAs. Once you get in a lot of the post bacc have pretty solid acceptance rates(maybe because they restrict the people in the program via GPA?). However they did tell me that I can take a few prereqs and then apply but I'm wondering if that will be good enough to accept me, maybe too little too late, since just a couple or 4 courses will not mean that I'll massively pull up my GPA.

 

[mcataz]

Originally posted by blankguy
The catch is that in Boston, a lot of the post bac have GPA cutoffs of 3.2 or 3.3.🙄 It seems to be just for people who need the prereqs with decent GPAs. Once you get in a lot of the post bacc have pretty solid acceptance rates(maybe because they restrict the people in the program via GPA?). However they did tell me that I can take a few prereqs and then apply but I'm wondering if that will be good enough to accept me, maybe too little too late, since just a couple or 4 courses will not mean that I'll massively pull up my GPA.

Yeah, I can see that being in Boston because of all the great schools that are there but in the rest of the U.S. it's not the case.