I am a sophmore student (well just finished sophmore year) in a University in Ireland. I am currently studying biochemistry. I am interested in going to dental school in the U.S after I graduate to do the 4 year DMD programme. I have been doing some research and it appears that a lot of schools do not accept undergraduate degrees from outside of the U.S and Canada. I was really interested in BU and Tufts. I know that BU do not accept foreign undergraduate degrees. I was wondering if anyone knows if this is the case for all dental schools or just some? Any information would be great! Thanks!
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Pretty much.
I'll try to answer your question by explaining what I did because I was somewhat in the same situation except I had a Masters (MBA) from a US school:
Computer Science Undergrad from India
MBA from Rice Univeristy
Took all the ds pre-reqs from CC in the US
3 upper level science courses (BioChem, Histology, Immunolgy) from local State Univeristy
Applied (9 Ds) - Interviewed (8) - accepted (5 )
so, you might have to take some courses here in the US...
Good luck...
I graduated from Trinity in Ireland with my bachelors degree in business and French in 2005. I worked a few years before deciding I wanted to go to dental school- I moved to California and completed all of the science and english pre-reqs at a state school and am currently applying. I've talked to a lot of schools and they will recognize your degree but all of the listed pre-reqs for dental school need to be done at a school in the US. It took me 3 semesters to finish. Hope this helps.
