elena molaee
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Hello everyone,
I need your help to realize where I am in my path.
I finished my high school in a foreign country and I got my natural science diploma. After that, I continued my education in Architecture field and I got my bachelor degree in Architecture field on 2016 from that country. Then, I moved to the US on 2018 and I decided to change my educational path because I got really interested in dentistry field. In my opinion dental field has so many common with architectural field in terms of accuracy and delicacy. On a first year of college in the US, I finished some ESL courses and then started to take prerequisites science course of dental schools. In the country where I am form, the GPA scale is based of 20. When I converted my bachelor’s GPA to the US scale myself, it’s almost 3.55, but not sure about the accuracy. So far, I took ENG 101, general chemistry 1 & 2, general biology 1 & 2, calculous 1, physics 1 & 2, and psychology at community college with overall GPA 4.00. For the spring 2021, I am taking org chemistry 1 and biology & physiology 1 at university. Now I have several question regarding my situation and I will be grateful if you can help me with those.
I need your help to realize where I am in my path.
I finished my high school in a foreign country and I got my natural science diploma. After that, I continued my education in Architecture field and I got my bachelor degree in Architecture field on 2016 from that country. Then, I moved to the US on 2018 and I decided to change my educational path because I got really interested in dentistry field. In my opinion dental field has so many common with architectural field in terms of accuracy and delicacy. On a first year of college in the US, I finished some ESL courses and then started to take prerequisites science course of dental schools. In the country where I am form, the GPA scale is based of 20. When I converted my bachelor’s GPA to the US scale myself, it’s almost 3.55, but not sure about the accuracy. So far, I took ENG 101, general chemistry 1 & 2, general biology 1 & 2, calculous 1, physics 1 & 2, and psychology at community college with overall GPA 4.00. For the spring 2021, I am taking org chemistry 1 and biology & physiology 1 at university. Now I have several question regarding my situation and I will be grateful if you can help me with those.
- How the science GPA is calculated? Is science GPA calculated only based on prerequisites or is based on bachelor’s science courses as well?
- Do the dental schools accept my Architecture bachelor or I have to take a science related bachelor?
- When is the best cycle to apply while I also need to take the DAT? Can I take it this up coming June or it’s too soon for me?
- What is the best DAT resource or test sample to refer?
- What is the best method to be prepared for reading comprehensive section of DAT?
- I do not have any shadowing hours or community voluntarily hours because of Covid pandemic, do I still have any chance to get admission from dental school if I apply this up coming cycle?
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