I am about to take my DAT and am trying to stay positive....
This is my situation:
After my freshmen year, I transferred from a public state school to a competitive private school. I am a bio major with a minor in psychology and a minor in art with a focus on ceramics.
I learned what a college education really meant when I transferred schools. At the state school, I did my normal studying routine and did well. At the private college, I didn't do so well. Academically, it was very challenging my first year there...soo I had to figure out a new studying strat. My grades show overall improvement from when I transferred till now.
Transferring was for the better (learned much more), but it sucked and killed my GPA. My cum. GPA between both school is between 3.1-3.2...with a 2.9-3.0 science GPA.
I have worked at a nursing home for 5 years. I am also an accountant for a local business. I also run a small business with my grandpa and grow, package, deliver, sell produce to the local community.
During my senior year, I did a "health care study" internship thing I petitioned to create (got credit for it on transcript) and shadowed about 40 hrs in different fields ranging from optometry, dentistry, dermatology, radiology, orthodontics. I decided I actually enjoyed dentistry. I ended up shadowing 2 dentists at a clinic for a week and a half straight (45 hrs) to get a feel if whether or not I'd like waking up to this every day and getting a feel of how my feelings were towards "going to work" in that field of work. I know I like science and for the longest time I didn't know specifically what I liked about science in terms of a career until these experiences.
My GPA really freaks me out. I don't know if this matters or not, but I also have 3 members of my family (my mom's brothers and sisters) that have all graduated from the same dental school. I plan on applying to their school and as well as a few other in the mid-west.
I am Vietnamese and the oldest of 3 children. My family is low income-single mom.
I've been hardcore studying for the DAT so I can do well and help compensate for my GPA.
How rough might the path to dent school be for me? I feel like I have a lot going against me w/ the GPA.
This is my situation:
After my freshmen year, I transferred from a public state school to a competitive private school. I am a bio major with a minor in psychology and a minor in art with a focus on ceramics.
I learned what a college education really meant when I transferred schools. At the state school, I did my normal studying routine and did well. At the private college, I didn't do so well. Academically, it was very challenging my first year there...soo I had to figure out a new studying strat. My grades show overall improvement from when I transferred till now.
Transferring was for the better (learned much more), but it sucked and killed my GPA. My cum. GPA between both school is between 3.1-3.2...with a 2.9-3.0 science GPA.
I have worked at a nursing home for 5 years. I am also an accountant for a local business. I also run a small business with my grandpa and grow, package, deliver, sell produce to the local community.
During my senior year, I did a "health care study" internship thing I petitioned to create (got credit for it on transcript) and shadowed about 40 hrs in different fields ranging from optometry, dentistry, dermatology, radiology, orthodontics. I decided I actually enjoyed dentistry. I ended up shadowing 2 dentists at a clinic for a week and a half straight (45 hrs) to get a feel if whether or not I'd like waking up to this every day and getting a feel of how my feelings were towards "going to work" in that field of work. I know I like science and for the longest time I didn't know specifically what I liked about science in terms of a career until these experiences.
My GPA really freaks me out. I don't know if this matters or not, but I also have 3 members of my family (my mom's brothers and sisters) that have all graduated from the same dental school. I plan on applying to their school and as well as a few other in the mid-west.
I am Vietnamese and the oldest of 3 children. My family is low income-single mom.
I've been hardcore studying for the DAT so I can do well and help compensate for my GPA.
How rough might the path to dent school be for me? I feel like I have a lot going against me w/ the GPA.
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