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Top Choices:
- VCU, NYUCD, UoP, Penn (Couldn't pick just one school....)
GPA: 3.35 oGPA 3.32 sGPA (3.40 formal grad post-bacc)
DAT: 23AA 24TS 20PAT
Experience:
- Dental Assisting 2000+ hours
- Research with Thesis (current M.S. student)
- some other stuff too including club activities and other volunteering experiences.
- VCU, NYUCD, UoP, Penn (Couldn't pick just one school....)
GPA: 3.35 oGPA 3.32 sGPA (3.40 formal grad post-bacc)
DAT: 23AA 24TS 20PAT
Experience:
- Dental Assisting 2000+ hours
- Research with Thesis (current M.S. student)
- some other stuff too including club activities and other volunteering experiences.
First and second choices:
UW and OHSU
GPA: 3.84
DAT TS: 21 PAT: 22
Experience: Dental assistant, X-Ray certified, plenty of volunteer, leadership experience
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UW and OHSU
GPA: 3.84
DAT TS: 21 PAT: 22
Experience: Dental assistant, X-Ray certified, plenty of volunteer, leadership experience
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Awesome guys, keep it up!!!
UCLA or UCSF.
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Did you apply to Roseman? I went to their dental simulation course in June of 2015.
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I have a few colleague graduate from UCSD, it is a good school. I assume if UCSD have a dental school, there may be too many dental schools in California....I could be wrong.
Most likely, but I love the atmosphere so much that it'd be awesome to stay.
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Yes I did! I hear it's an awesome school it's just..twice as expensive as the U.
MWU-IL is my top as of now, UDM, and probably UNC.
GPA: 3.7o, 3.45s
DAT: 19AA, 18PAT, 19TS, 23 RC
EC's: research, volunteering, TA, RA, shadowing, worked 4000 hours, lab assistant, orthodontics clinical assistant, fraternity (3 leadership positions).
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GPA: 3.7o, 3.45s
DAT: 19AA, 18PAT, 19TS, 23 RC
EC's: research, volunteering, TA, RA, shadowing, worked 4000 hours, lab assistant, orthodontics clinical assistant, fraternity (3 leadership positions).
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But your name is buckeye4lyfe!!! That should include OSU!
I applied there, but it's definitely not my top choice. This is for top choices!
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COLUMBIA
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Illinois-Chicago. It seems like I never hear about it, so I guess there aren't many Illinois residents on here.
Also hoping to receive the Navy HPSP scholarship. I'm sending my Navy application out September 1st!
Also hoping to receive the Navy HPSP scholarship. I'm sending my Navy application out September 1st!
Ideally probably Michigan or UDM since it is close to family, but I think Oregon or UNC would be awesome.
without +/- sGPA 3.78 GPA 3.85
with +/- sGPA 3.74 GPA 3.80
DAT: 20 AA 19 TS 19 PAT 23 RC 18 QR 17 BIO 19 OC 21 GC
108 hrs shadowing, about 60 hrs of volunteering
full ride when transferred as division 1 soccer player; captain of division 3 soccer team and captain of semi-pro soccer team
Residency: MI
Really hoping the 17 in BIO doesn't kill my chances because I didn't get the chance to study for that section.
without +/- sGPA 3.78 GPA 3.85
with +/- sGPA 3.74 GPA 3.80
DAT: 20 AA 19 TS 19 PAT 23 RC 18 QR 17 BIO 19 OC 21 GC
108 hrs shadowing, about 60 hrs of volunteering
full ride when transferred as division 1 soccer player; captain of division 3 soccer team and captain of semi-pro soccer team
Residency: MI
Really hoping the 17 in BIO doesn't kill my chances because I didn't get the chance to study for that section.
Have you already started your application for the Navy HPSP? I am planning on applying for it as well. I just contacted my recruiter last week.
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I'm all done with my application. At this point I'm just waiting for my recruiter to send it once the cycle opens in a month. It's a long process though.
Love the family history, you are awesome.
I wanted to apply to OHSU until I realized I'd have to live in Portland. PNW is great, though 😀
Oregon is nice, Portland debatable...
I heard Oregon is a great place to live, I hope can get in!!!
I find the fact that no one is saying no my first choice to be comforting.
You need to have a dream school. LOL
OHSU #1!
Didn't know we had a common OOS feeder school
Edit: On a side note, OHSU received a $500M donation from Nike to build their new cancer research institute, which should be located right adjacent to the newly built dental school
Didn't know we had a common OOS feeder school
Edit: On a side note, OHSU received a $500M donation from Nike to build their new cancer research institute, which should be located right adjacent to the newly built dental school
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It's tough because I like all the schools I applied to, but I have a major, undeniable love for MWU-AZ. The students there are great, the systems-based curriculum (one of the aforementioned great students sent me a copy of their D1 schedule) is just awesome, and it'd be a pleasure to attend there.
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Oh that's awesome, must be a big relief. How long did everything included in the application take you to complete? Yeah, it is crazy that we won't find out for about half of a year. Goodluck though!
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Thanks, you too. It took me about six months, but that's only because I've slowly been going through it and I gave my letter of recommendation writers plenty of time. If you have quick letter writers you could get it all done in a month or two I'm sure.
Well any pro people give me for Portland can be easily found in another city minus the hordes of 20 and 30 something well off transplants from the burbs. And it's home to most of the hippies left in the states. I know this doesn't describe everyone from Portland but there's no question these types of people exist in much higher numbers in Portland. I get that I probably sound like a prick from this explanation and hating on Portland has sort of become a thing, but I've always felt this way so hey, at least I'm genuine about it 😉 public transport kind of blows and during my time there I saw more tweakers than anywhere else I've ever been, for whatever that's worth
I hate this word because it's been misused so much that it's basically lost all meaning, but if you had to name a hipster capital of the US it would be Portland without a doubt. Eugene is up there too haha
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You rock, man. I guess you should be really confident with your stats.
I heard Minnesota is really good, but too cold.
I don't mind it since I grew up in a cold state. I'm a fan of winter.
University of Maryland!
GPA: 3.77 oGPA 3.84 sGPA (3.40 formal grad post-bacc)
DAT: 19AA 18TS 20PAT
Experience:
- Lots of research/ some awards
- President of Fraternity// President of Chem. Honor Society
- Other leadership
-250 Shadowing Hours
-Lots of volunteering
GPA: 3.77 oGPA 3.84 sGPA (3.40 formal grad post-bacc)
DAT: 19AA 18TS 20PAT
Experience:
- Lots of research/ some awards
- President of Fraternity// President of Chem. Honor Society
- Other leadership
-250 Shadowing Hours
-Lots of volunteering
At this point I'm feeling like anywhere is a dream 🤣
Probably Harvard or VCU or A&M.
22AA 3.9 something or other
Probably Harvard or VCU or A&M.
22AA 3.9 something or other
Portland rocks but its suffering the same fate as Denver and Austin: endless swarm of 20 somethings, impossible to find a rental and when you do it's ridiculously expensive.
I would go to OHSU in a heartbeat and I went to one of their feeder schools but when I met an admissions officer there one summer she gave me a pretty blatant "you're OOS, your GPA is below our average, don't apply" answer for me.
Well as a single "20 something" the idea of going to a city that's filled with people my age is quite appealing. I'm referring to Denver since Colorado is one of my top picks.
VCU!
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Denver is the best! That's why I've been here since forever. But the city adds almost 10,000 people a month.....I had to compete with 15 other rental applications on the very first day my apartment became available. Housing is a zoo. Traffic is becoming unbearable. I work for CU though and their medical campus is great!
Oregon is a sooooo beautiful!!!
True story, I put a deposit down for a school, to get accept at OHSU few days later. Then I put the deposit down for OHSU, and get accept at another school later too...
2k deposit down the sink...
My what if school is Upenn and columbia
I have 0GPA 3.3 sGPA 3.3 AA 22 TS 22 PAT 25
shadowing 150hours (general and oral surgeons),
patient care assistant work 2000 hours,
Volunteer in hospital, high school as a tutor 100 hours something like that
3 basic science research and one clinic research,
organized a few event in my undergraduate school and graduate school as a student association president
Medical and dental trip oversea
recommendation letter from chairman of dentistry department
Hopefully these will make me get into one of them.
So you are in OHSU now?
