How !?

[Ramy]

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For all those who have gotten very high GPA's, even with all this timemanagement and hard work. How is it possible for so many to have high 80's and 90's if at university the class average cannot exceed 70% or else a proffesor must notify the Dean wiith a reason...and if it doesn't go through..marks drop.

How do so many here on SDN surpass that. Maybe its just canadian schooling but its scaring the **** outta me lol. I want DENT so bad!

*PS: i total put this on the wrong thread page if any admin could move this outta DAT discussions and into Pre-dental lol 🙁

 

[UCB05]

Kudos to all those with great GPAs and also to those who know their 3.3s are an accomplishment as well. Achiever vs. Top Score. Most of us who have taken both know that Achiever is harder and a 20 on Achiever may be more of an achievement than a 25 on Top Score. In the university vs. university GPA comparo, not many of us will have personal experiences with more than one university to do a first person comparo. Maybe within a family of college students like in mine, a nonscientific opinion can be rendered. Until then, are you the person who scored a 20 on the Achiever version claiming that the person who got a 25 must have gotten the Top Score version or are you the person who got a 25 (on the Top Score version) telling the guy who got a 20 (Achiever version), that they need to study smarter/harder?

 

[MTD52]

I'm the guy who has been in both situations and performed just as well, if not better, in what you are referring to as the "harder" one.

Inevitably there will be discontinuity with the degree of difficulty, but that doesn't mean that it can't be done in every setting. Like I said, if something gets harder, work harder. The point is that nobody should be so quick to judge someone who gets a high GPA in a setting that they deem "less competitive." How do you know they couldn't do it anywhere else? That's all I'm saying.

 

[zoralsurgeon]

The irony of the whole gpa argument is that while GPA is a large factor in getting into school, it certainly isn't the end all be all. If GPA was the only thing DS's cared about, why the hell do we take the DAT, have ECs, etc.? Shrug. People with 3.8s, 3.9s, and 4.0s and such will get into school. So will people with 3.0s and 3.1s. Obviously on average more of the higher GPAs will get in. But honestly the pissing contest over how smart everyone is pretty much is moot once you hit actually practicing.

Last I checked, working with patients doesn't = GPA. I think we all can agree it takes a whole lot more than a high gpa to be a good technician and a successful practitioner.

Amen to you. You got it BSHIMEL lol!