Multiple Undergrad Degrees Question

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I have an interesting question. Let’s say you have completed 2 undergrad degrees. The first was in Project Management that started from at community college, then transferred and completed from a small cheesy private school that is not very well known academically. You finish that business degree with a cGPA of 2.89. A year after graduation from that college you decide you want to become a dentist and you enter a large, well-known, public university and major in Biology. You complete that degree and all of the dental school prerequisites with a cGPA of 3.65. Here are the questions: when applying to dental school could you choose to omit the business degree and just list the bio degree? Or do you HAVE to show both? If you have to provide all college work, will the admission committees weigh more heavily on the most recent credits? All input is greatly appreciated!
 
List both, they will weigh the bio degree more, since it is more recent, but your GPAs will be combined. But having a degree in business will help you get into dental school, since they dont teach much business in school, the more exposure you have the better, and they will see your commitment to the field for going back.
 
Including both would drastically lower my cGPA. Is there any legal reason why I would have to include both? Do the admission committees look poorly on retaking classes?
 
I think you have to disclose all college level work- if you don't and a school accepts you and then somehow finds out they could rescind their offer of acceptance. I wouldn't risk that. I don't know HOW they would find out about your business degree. That said I think it's really impressive that you have 2 degrees (and not just a double major) and that could actually HELP your application. Plus they'll look at your most recent work. Yeah it'll lower your cGPA, but will it lower it to below a 3.00? If not I'd say full disclosure is the way to go.

Is this a question you could ask your pre-health advisor?
 
Follow-up: They'll probably want to know what you did for those 4 years after highschool before you got your Bio degree, so a lie will beget a lie etc.... Just something to think about.
 
Actually the possibility that they will search your history is almost zero. But you never know what is gonna happen.
 
Cymbidium said:
I think you have to disclose all college level work- if you don't and a school accepts you and then somehow finds out they could rescind their offer of acceptance. I wouldn't risk that. I don't know HOW they would find out about your business degree. That said I think it's really impressive that you have 2 degrees (and not just a double major) and that could actually HELP your application. Plus they'll look at your most recent work. Yeah it'll lower your cGPA, but will it lower it to below a 3.00? If not I'd say full disclosure is the way to go.

Is this a question you could ask your pre-health advisor?
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I suppose I could disclose this information to my pre-health advisor and see what he has to say. Including both degree will actually bring my cGPA down to right at a 3.0!
 
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