Interview Question

[pudge123]

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Sorry if this has been repeated a couple of times but i could find it on a search...

Ive been interviewed at 2 schools now and I want to now is dental schools like other professional schools where an invite to an interview means you have a pretty good chance at acceptance as long as you do well on your interview?

 

[reapply2007]

No. It merely completes your application. The crowning jewel. Schools can decide to accept or reject based on entirely undisclosed criteria. So long as they don't blatantly discriminate, everything is fair game. Nothing I've read says they actually require scores or anything other than having taken a specific list of classes and having taken the DAT. True, an interview could be required-but it could just as easily be waived. In the end, it is entirely an unknown why dental schools admit anyone. Show up and don't drool in public-you could be in. Or maybe not.

Think of the entire process objectively - 12K people spending about 1K eack on AADSAS plus DAT prep and testing, plus scores (minimum $200-max >1K). Then you have secondaries, secondary fees, and flying out for and interview. When all is said and done it could be $500 per school just to sit down in an interview, listen to yourself talk to someone who has heard it all before, and then have that same someone sit on your application until Dec 1. That is when you have a heart attack at the first thin envelope that hits the mailbox. Years of your life go into this process. Adcoms get paid to evaluate you and your puny accomplishments, and your wrinkled shirt. It makes me sick to think that a rejection might be on the way just because my socks don't match. But then again, it wouldn't surprise me at all.

 

[pine88]

hey, droolers are people too

 

[in her drawer]

No. It merely completes your application. The crowning jewel. Schools can decide to accept or reject based on entirely undisclosed criteria. So long as they don't blatantly discriminate, everything is fair game. Nothing I've read says they actually require scores or anything other than having taken a specific list of classes and having taken the DAT. True, an interview could be required-but it could just as easily be waived. In the end, it is entirely an unknown why dental schools admit anyone. Show up and don't drool in public-you could be in. Or maybe not.

Think of the entire process objectively - 12K people spending about 1K eack on AADSAS plus DAT prep and testing, plus scores (minimum $200-max >1K). Then you have secondaries, secondary fees, and flying out for and interview. When all is said and done it could be $500 per school just to sit down in an interview, listen to yourself talk to someone who has heard it all before, and then have that same someone sit on your application until Dec 1. That is when you have a heart attack at the first thin envelope that hits the mailbox. Years of your life go into this process. Adcoms get paid to evaluate you and your puny accomplishments, and your wrinkled shirt. It makes me sick to think that a rejection might be on the way just because my socks don't match. But then again, it wouldn't surprise me at all.

Don't forget: you gotta look nice when you arrive for that interview. Tag on about another 500 for a good ensemble.

 

[abzirian]

No. It merely completes your application. The crowning jewel. Schools can decide to accept or reject based on entirely undisclosed criteria. So long as they don't blatantly discriminate, everything is fair game. Nothing I've read says they actually require scores or anything other than having taken a specific list of classes and having taken the DAT. True, an interview could be required-but it could just as easily be waived. In the end, it is entirely an unknown why dental schools admit anyone. Show up and don't drool in public-you could be in. Or maybe not.

Think of the entire process objectively - 12K people spending about 1K eack on AADSAS plus DAT prep and testing, plus scores (minimum $200-max >1K). Then you have secondaries, secondary fees, and flying out for and interview. When all is said and done it could be $500 per school just to sit down in an interview, listen to yourself talk to someone who has heard it all before, and then have that same someone sit on your application until Dec 1. That is when you have a heart attack at the first thin envelope that hits the mailbox. Years of your life go into this process. Adcoms get paid to evaluate you and your puny accomplishments, and your wrinkled shirt. It makes me sick to think that a rejection might be on the way just because my socks don't match. But then again, it wouldn't surprise me at all.

I disagree. Statistically speaking, many (of course not all) schools seem to accept over 50% of their interviewees - which means that to even recieve an interview represents passing a huge screening of the applicant pool. Plus, i hear that schools like Case love early interviewees - the D3 students at my interview at Case told me that we were pretty guaranteed acceptance.

 

[Mackchops]

Yeah, every school is different. It doesn't guarantee anything but you're way ahead of the game and your chances are a whole lot better than they were before the invite (statistically of course -- some people are just bad at interviews)