Mandatory Course Requirements ? Help me plz

I think that Biology, Chemistry, and Physics labs are a requirement at every dental school.
Unless you were referring to Biochem? Biochem lab is not required..

 

I'm sorry Slave4MD,

Like Beagle said: lab requirements are mandatory prior to matriculation. Dental schools are strict about them, but not as strict as Medical schools. Some medical schools want you to take full year labs from what my friends have told me. I would be safe, not sorry.

DesiDentist

 

You should do everyone including yourself a favor, don't bother applying to dental school because you are wasting a potential seat for a dental applicant who has a sincere intrest in dentistry. If you have always aspired to be a doctor then you will not be satisfied being a dentist. There are always medical schools in the Caribbean if you want to be a doctor

 

this guy's a troll...i dont know why you guys even bother to reply to him

 

NO, stop asking questions you already should know the answer to. Labs are classes where you apply what you learn in lecture. If you can't apply then you can't learn regardless of your gpa in lecture courses.

A dentist needs to apply what he/she learns in class into clinic.

DesiDentist

 

Slave4MD,

from your posts it seems as if you think that dentistry is below medicine as a profession. I hope understand these are two different fields and the requirements are almost equal. If you were to only apply to medical schools do you think they would appreciate seeing a 0.3 gpa in your lab classes? As so, dental schools will frown upon that as well.

I'll give it two - three years when dentistry will meet or beat the criteria for medical school. My school UW has almost the same entering GPA as the medical school and our medical school is #1 in primary care in the nation. A couple of years ago, I believe the dental school beat the medical school entering gpa. These trends are evident across the nation. More and more schools are hitting the 3.5 mark so please don't think that the dental profession is "easier" to get into or won't care if you "slack off."


DesiDentist

 

This is my first post but I have been reading the other posts when time permits.
I just want to say to all you frequent posters "Get off slave4md's back" We all know that with his stats he is going to be a D1 somewhere next year and he could possibly be your new classmate. There are jerks everywhere. I have definitely been called worse.
As for waiving some lab classes slave4md, yes you can! Especially if you have killer stats that show the adcoms you have already handled the heavier portion of the class. Of course it all depends on the school and a simple phone call will settle it. If you do not believe me, ask the beloved ItsGavinC. He posted on the same topic not to long ago about how he is waiving several of his labs next semester and he actually planned for it by not taking the labs while enrolled in the lecture portion of the class. I think there are alot of people on this forum that discourage others from applying or not telling them the secrets of the trade. Lets encourage not discourage!
Bytheway, DesiDentist-you bug me! You post so damn much on this forum you have got to be that "annoying punk who sits in the front of the class asking to many questions and kissing the professors ass"
C-ya

 

Slave4md--
If your lab grade does not do anything to hurt your overall score, than I suppose it is fine to slack off. Honestly, that is what I would do~!
I guess your school does not have a seperate score for lab and lecture than?

 

What a great physician/dentist/PhD your going to be. I love the notion of measly lab courses as if they are somehow below your intellectually level. Memo to slave4md no one here cares or actually believes that you scored high on your mcat/dat/gre/lsat/act/sat/Iowa standardized testing from 1st through 8th grade (why is it that you claim to have scored mid 30s on the mcat, yet you have over 50 posts on this message board, and not one has been in pre-allopathic...yet all of your other posts have been in pre-optometry/pre-osteopathy/pre-dental...hmmmmm). Do us all a favor and go back to that job you were fired at and leave the health professions to individuals who truly care about promoting health and wellness in their patients. PEACE

 

Slave4MD,
Regarding your suposition, I would say knocking out a 0.3 on the labs would be high risk even if you produced a 4.0 in the associated lectures along with glowing lettters of recommendation from the profs.

Your scenario reminds me of something we were told by our drill sergeant in basic training. We had to put our barracks in tip top shape each night before going to bed. The next day, our living quarters would be inspected while we were out training in the field. A bad inspection report brought down the hammer on the whole platoon and we would be assigned punishment details such as extra KP, guard duty, cleaning grease traps etc. Anyway, the drill sergeant told us that whatever we did as far a shaping up the barracks was concerned the most important factor was keeping our efforts uniform. So, for example, polishing the latrine to the point of looking like the "white knight" hit it while leaving the floors merely acceptable would likely get us dinged. In other words, the normallly acceptable floors would look shabby to the inspectors because the latrine would be so immaculate. I think the same reasoning applies to your case. Your great lecture grades would make your mediocre lab grades stick out like a sore thumb. I would not do it.