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[Say_Cheese]

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Do they really care what our parents do?
Is an applicant that has a dentist in the family (parent) a slight fav?

 

[monkeyboy126]

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.

 

[Comet208]

It is believed (by adcoms) that if one of your parents is a practicing dentist, it is very luckly that you know a lot about the profession, are serious about it, and may already have a whole office waiting for you to take over.

 

[MrBenny]

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.")

 

[Sprgrover]

Do they really care what our parents do?
Is an applicant that has a dentist in the family (parent) a slight fav?

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.

 

[fancymylotus]

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]