Need advice on DAT score

[yjeong36]

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I took DAT the other day and I got my score back. I got really low score on BIO and READING. Should I retake it? I need advice! (I'm applying next cycle)

PAT: 22 / 93.8 percentile
QR: 21 / 97.6
RC: 17 / 35.7
Bio: 15 / 26.1
Gen Chem: 25 / 98.9
Organic Chem: 28 / 99.5
Total Sci: 19 / 82.8
Academic Average: 21 / 97.2

 

[Dainotda]

Which dental schools you're aiming for?
For many dental schools, your scores are fine. However, if you're aiming for the top tier ones, your TS needs to be higher and it wouldn't hurt for the AA to be higher too

I've heard that RC isn't considered too important for many dental schools but it would help a lot to have a higher Bio; great job on the Chems though!
Good luck!

 

[yjeong36]

Well, I'm applying next year and trying to apply to my state school (Nebraska, Creighton) and other school as well like NYU, BU, TUFTS, etc...

 

[periopocket]

21/19/22 Is actually not bad at all! You should be able to land some interviews and acceptances somewhere granted you have a decent GPA. GL man unique scores!

 

[Stacker]

I took DAT the other day and I got my score back. I got really low score on BIO and READING. Should I retake it? I need advice! (I'm applying next cycle)

PAT: 22 / 93.8 percentile
QR: 21 / 97.6
RC: 17 / 35.7
Bio: 15 / 26.1
Gen Chem: 25 / 98.9
Organic Chem: 28 / 99.5
Total Sci: 19 / 82.8
Academic Average: 21 / 97.2

Which dental schools you're aiming for?
For many dental schools, your scores are fine. However, if you're aiming for the top tier ones, your TS needs to be higher and it wouldn't hurt for the AA to be higher too

I've heard that RC isn't considered too important for many dental schools but it would help a lot to have a higher Bio; great job on the Chems though!
Good luck!

If you read up on Cliff's you should be able to bring that Bio score up. Reading is a different story. You can't just make up years of reading in a shortened span of about a month. The best you could do is look up reading strategies, do a lot of practice passages, and hope for the best. If your goal is to get into dental school, apply this cycle and apply intelligently. If you have a particular school in mind, retake the DAT and possibly apply this cycle, quickly. But it's probably better to apply next cycle if you want to get into your dream school.

RC, on average, is definitely weighed more heavily than you say it is.

This doesn't directly prove my point but it does support it by associating a higher reading score to a higher board score (before it went P/F).

"The results indicate that DAT reading comprehension was a statistically significant predictor (p value less than or equal to 0.05) of all four subtests of Part I of the NBDE."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12014563

19/21/22 is good and better than most other people's scores.

 

[yjeong36]

Thanks for the input. I really appreciate it.

 

[DoeAdeer]

Which dental schools you're aiming for?
For many dental schools, your scores are fine. However, if you're aiming for the top tier ones, your TS needs to be higher and it wouldn't hurt for the AA to be higher too

I've heard that RC isn't considered too important for many dental schools but it would help a lot to have a higher Bio; great job on the Chems though!
Good luck!

That is ludicrous. Since when was it acceptable to score a 15 on Bio and a 17 on RC? Even with a 4.0 GPA, you won't be able to get into ANY dental school with sub 18s unless you're talking about Meharry or Howard, of course.

And to the OP:

Yes, you must retake.

 

[nicolee4111]

That is ludicrous. Since when was it acceptable to score a 15 on Bio and a 17 on RC? Even with a 4.0 GPA, you won't be able to get into ANY dental school with sub 18s unless you're talking about Meharry or Howard, of course.

And to the OP:

Yes, you must retake.

Why do you always, always have some negative things to say? Literally all the posts I see you put up are negative comments

 

[DDS Perez]

Why do you always, always have some negative things to say? Literally all the posts I see you put up are negative comments

We are making this individual famous, and that is what he wants. Ignore it!

But yeah 15 in Bio is kind of harsh! Give it a shot, but buy cliffs AP biology just in case.

Good Luck!!

 

[sacapuntas]

We are making this individual famous, and that is what he wants. Ignore it!

But yeah 15 in Bio is kind of harsh! Give it a shot, but buy cliffs AP biology just in case.

Good Luck!!

Bingo!

And yeah, I would seriously think about retaking. Your chem is so good, but bio could be considered the most important section by many people. Hope for the best and plan for the worst.

 

[Stacker]

That is ludicrous. Since when was it acceptable to score a 15 on Bio and a 17 on RC? Even with a 4.0 GPA, you won't be able to get into ANY dental school with sub 18s unless you're talking about Meharry or Howard, of course.

And to the OP:

Yes, you must retake.

Why do you always, always have some negative things to say? Literally all the posts I see you put up are negative comments

You can't help it if the majority of these types of questions are written by people with less than average stats. You should expect that the answer to most of these questions to be negative, especially since they are the truth. But you're right DoeAdeer tends to be a pessimist. Nothing wrong with that.

 

[KittySquared]

Your scores are put into a computer in most of the dental schools and they weed out people from a certain cut off. I'm fairly confident that 15 is way too low. You should retake your DAT just so that you have absolutely nothing below a 17. 18 is on the safer side.

 

[BRZ24]

That is ludicrous. Since when was it acceptable to score a 15 on Bio and a 17 on RC? Even with a 4.0 GPA, you won't be able to get into ANY dental school with sub 18s unless you're talking about Meharry or Howard, of course.

And to the OP:

Yes, you must retake.

You are the unbelieavably annoying. You must be a virgin who has no life or friends. seriously.

 

[Kahr]

That is ludicrous. Since when was it acceptable to score a 15 on Bio and a 17 on RC? Even with a 4.0 GPA, you won't be able to get into ANY dental school with sub 18s unless you're talking about Meharry or Howard, of course.

And to the OP:

Yes, you must retake.

DoeAdeer is correct regarding those scores, at least in my opinion. However I wouldn't broadly say you can't get in with sub 18s; a sub 18 in QR for example is the most common exception.

For everyone here, not just DoeAdeer, I suggest not calling out specific schools publicly in this fashion, it's just going to agitate various parties and is completely unhelpful, not to mention the promotion of a negative stigma of any dental school is bad form for a future professional. Who knows, one day you might be interviewing for a position with a practice run by a graduate from one of these schools. 😉

 

[BRZ24]

The world is gonna come to an end if a lot of SDN people are gonna be adcoms. It is ridiculous that these people think that you have NO chance without a 24+ AA

get real.. seriously.

 

[Stacker]

The world is gonna come to an end if a lot of SDN people are gonna be adcoms. It is ridiculous that these people think that you have NO chance without a 24+ AA

get real.. seriously.

He doesn't have a 24 and it doesn't matter what your AA is if you did very poorly in one crucial section like Bio or Reading.