I am a 3rd year at OSU earning my B.S. in biology. My overall g.p.a. is 2.97 and my sci. g.p.a. thus far is 2.67 👎 . I'm taking kaplan this spring to study for the DAT. I am also doing research in an oral biology lab at the OSU college of dentistry. My grades have an upward trend and I know I still have time to bring them up but I don't think it will be enough. I was just wondering if anyone knew what the best post bacc programs for predental students were? I know there are a bunch of pre-med post bacc programs that require the MCAT or GRE.... My advisor said some schools accept DAT scores in place of MCAT scores if you ask them to.
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Have you figured out what your GPA will be if you pull a 4.0 this semester and your senior year. My guess is that you can probably get your GPA's up to the 3.2-3.3 range, in which case you may not need to do post-bacc work (assuming a DAT in the 20's). As for the programs.....I don't have a clue what you are talking about. I've heard people talking of pre-dental postbacc programs but nothing specific. I'm a graduate and have returned to take as many classes as possible (all science) and complete any prereqs for a masters.
Have you spoken to an advisor at your school about this? They would know since I suspect it depends which school you attend as far as what kinds of programs they offer.
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Have you spoken to an advisor at your school about this? They would know since I suspect it depends which school you attend as far as what kinds of programs they offer.
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.....I wanna tag along for this post.geckel said:Have you figured out what your GPA will be if you pull a 4.0 this semester and your senior year. My guess is that you can probably get your GPA's up to the 3.2-3.3 range, in which case you may not need to do post-bacc work (assuming a DAT in the 20's). As for the programs.....I don't have a clue what you are talking about. I've heard people talking of pre-dental postbacc programs but nothing specific. I'm a graduate and have returned to take as many classes as possible (all science) and complete any prereqs for a masters.
Have you spoken to an advisor at your school about this? They would know since I suspect it depends which school you attend as far as what kinds of programs they offer.
I just relized that I said a bunch of nothing. Consider my ramblings a bump
I asked my advisor and he said he wasn't sure... I have been looking around online and the only post bacc pre-dental programs I can find are for underpriv. students or minorities... both of which i am not...I am hoping to get my g.p.a. up to at least a 3.15 by the end of this year and who knows by the end of senior year!
I had a HORRIBLE g.p.a. freshman/begining of sophomore year. It keeps increasing but my classes will keep getting harder (mol gen, biochem, etc) I have already taken O-chem which is a huge relief. Since the start of my upward g.p.a. trend I have gotten all A's and B's in my science classes I hope they will consider the trend.
