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Hi everyone. I have two questions and I'm a junior btw.

1) I work at a daycare with 3-6 year olds and have been since I was a freshman (I volunteered first then started working). Would it be inappropriate to ask for a letter of rec from the director. She's known me for 2+ years and I anticipate I will work there until I graduate. It has nothing to do with dentistry but I'm hoping to go into peds so is that okay?

2) Art classes. Do dental schools really care or would they really care if I got an A in ceramics or something? Also what class would you recommend if I was going to take an art class - ceramics, drawing, sculpting, art metals, etc? I don't know if its really worth it.

Thanks!
 
first off, every school is different..look at the schools ur interested in and see if they allow one open letter of recommendation. usually they do...usually its like one prof, one dentist, and one watver u like...

as u look for that, you will also come across recommended classes and find that ceramics and sculpture are on there...yes, they will actually like hte A in ceramics
 
Hi everyone. I have two questions and I'm a junior btw.

1) I work at a daycare with 3-6 year olds and have been since I was a freshman (I volunteered first then started working). Would it be inappropriate to ask for a letter of rec from the director. She's known me for 2+ years and I anticipate I will work there until I graduate. It has nothing to do with dentistry but I'm hoping to go into peds so is that okay?

2) Art classes. Do dental schools really care or would they really care if I got an A in ceramics or something? Also what class would you recommend if I was going to take an art class - ceramics, drawing, sculpting? I don't know if its really worth it.

Thanks!


I have a degree in Art/ Art History - had 4 interviews (tufts, temple, penn, NYU) and each interviewer was really interested in all I had to say about my art classes and my art history thesis- one even said it was a refreshing change! Ceramics, jewelry and sculpture would be good ones to take.
 
Jewelry has been a good class for me. Work with very small objects in your class and you'll also find the process of finishing and polishing to be similar to some of the anal-retentive requirements of dental lab work.

Ceramics was what I spent 10 years of my life doing prior to dental school. It taught me a lot of conceptual things that have made lab work a little easier to handle. I was a little surprised that almost no one in my class had mixed plaster before school. As for the handskills, I didn't feel it transferred that well, except in doing wax ups (but then I used dental tools to carve small ceramic pots for a couple years, so that isn't too surprising).

Oddly enough, construction seems to be a good field prior to dentistry too.
 
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