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hN mAiEr

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Can anyone say how often pre-dental students study other than science subjects and then apply and get accepted to dental school? does it play a huge role on your acceptance and how much of a disadvantage are you at once in dental school not having focused on sciences for the past 4 years?
 
At the interviews that I've gone to, about 15-20% of the people are non-science majors. If anything, I'd think it would put you at an advantage in the eyes of an Adcom, because Bio majors seem to be a dime a dozen. Though no hate to my fellow Bio majors out there! 😉 As long as you take the pre-reqs you should be fine.
 
hN mAiEr said:
Can anyone say how often pre-dental students study other than science subjects and then apply and get accepted to dental school? does it play a huge role on your acceptance and how much of a disadvantage are you at once in dental school not having focused on sciences for the past 4 years?
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See this post by our resident statistics guru, Doc Toothache:

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=516945
 
thanks everyone who responded but to the second part of the question . . . is it to terribly hard for someone who say majored in english to be sucessfull in dental school?? is dental school extensive on high level math is what i would really like to know..
 
I think you'd better say d-students that have formerly been non-science major. IMO, the more science exposure you have , the better in d-school.
Regarding admissions, a guy/gal with any major can get in provided they fulfilled the d-school pre-requisites (and most of the time expected to get a BS/BA at the end of undergrad). Anyway, everybody will study a lot in d-school , I guess , regarless of major... and then who'll be better off don't know...
Good luck.
 
It is easier in d-school if you majored in biology, perhaps chemistry or other science, but only because the material is not completely foreign to you. Are they going to skip things in the material or expect you to know certain things? Absoluety not. If you study hard, and you will probably hard to study a little harder than most at some things, you will do good, not just pass. So don't let this sway your decision.

As far as getting into d-school, the previous poster i agree with. If anything it will only give the interviewer a refreshment from the typical background they are use to, and they in no way hold it against you. It will actually give you something that makes you unique from everyone else, which is the name of the game as long as you can get a decent GPA & DAT score.
 
I'm a social science major and philosophy minor. I wish I had majored in ecology & evolutionary bio though.
 
eww ecology? That was my least favorite part of bio, plants are second on the hierarchy of hate. 😀 Molecular, cell, or physiological bio are muy interesting to me.
 
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