Do they really care what our parents do?
Is an applicant that has a dentist in the family (parent) a slight fav?
Is an applicant that has a dentist in the family (parent) a slight fav?
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the dean of admissions liked it when i told them my mom was a dental assistant for 25 years. so it may help a little.
In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter squat.
But it gives you something to talk about at the interviews, and the previous poster was right, that having a parent as a dentist is always a good basis to say why you want to go into dentistry ("My parents were both dentists, so I spent a lot of the time at the country clubs.. i mean, the clinic.")
But it gives you something to talk about at the interviews, and the previous poster was right, that having a parent as a dentist is always a good basis to say why you want to go into dentistry ("My parents were both dentists, so I spent a lot of the time at the country clubs.. i mean, the clinic.")
Say_Cheese said:
I have no dentists in my immediate family and it never came up in any interviews. I don't believe a lack of dentists in your family tree will be much of a disadvantage, if at all.
MrBenny said:In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter squat.
But it gives you something to talk about at the interviews, and the previous poster was right, that having a parent as a dentist is always a good basis to say why you want to go into dentistry ("My parents were both dentists, so I spent a lot of the time at the country clubs.. i mean, the clinic.")[/QUOTE]
