Just saying ...

[bird06k]

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Sorry, I let my feelings take over.

 

[DAS]

One of the dental schools has this statement on their website, “The admissions committee does not consider highly those applicants who have been enrolled for more than one-third of coursework (both general and required courses) in community colleges or junior colleges.”


I have about 135 credit hours from a community college, which includes all the pre-reqs that I needed for dental school. So if the dental school has that statement on their website, will it be waste of my money and time to apply? I am taking upper-level science classes to prove that I can handle hard science classes. I really want to do dentistry, but since I went to community college, I won't be able to achieve my goals? Community college was not easy at all! I studied all night and all weekends to get an A in org. chem. class that was 6 hr long, but at the end, it was not worth it!!! This will get me depressed to death.

Please ignore me if you find this annoying, I am hopeless anyways.

IS that the only school you want to get into? there are plenty out there who will take courses taken at a community college, as long as you have done well in a university after wards.

 

[dr.rex]

there are a bunch of threads about this you should be fine if you pick your schools that you apply to wisely

 

[drdoodle]

Unless this is the only school you want to go to (or need to, for whatever reason), you're totally fine. I received my BA in a completely non-science field, but had taken the most basic dental school requirements (bio, orgo, gchem, physics) at my 4 year college. After graduating I enrolled in CC to take more upper level science classes (eg anatomy, microbio) to boost my GPA and I think I have close to 60 CC credits to my name. I applied to 10 schools and so far I've gotten interviews at 4 and accepted to 1 (and for me, 1 is all I need), so it's doable. One school even said that the reason I was invited to interview was because of all the science classes I'd taken at a CC. Also, some schools will be lenient with their CC credit policies; at one school I was told that they only cared about the basic science pre-reqs coming from 4 year colleges and everything else (like math classes) they would overlook. Just do your research and it will be fine 👍