Pre-Med spill over.

[harkkam]

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I've noticed alot of people have started to change their mind from medicine over to dentistry.

I was wondering how this would effect all us regular folks who dont have gpa in the high 3's like a 3.8 or 3.7.

One of my professors told me that these individuals apply for medical school and the ones who get rejected then move down to dentistry. Since their Gpa's are stellar they make it harder for everybody else to get admitted into dental school.

I was wondering if in two years time dentistry will be as comeptitive as pre-med is now.

My hunch is that yes some what, but however dentists are retiring at a quite a fast rate as well and to keep up with demand, that the schools are going to try and push out high number of dentists to meet that demand. Meaning more seats perhaps. Im not sure but just a guess.

 

[ummjoey]

is this another premed vs predent thread?

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=504738
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=504063
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=504172
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=486214
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=482221
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=482502
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=475235

to answer you question.........i dont think dentistry is for everyone.

 

[ucla2134]

I've noticed alot of people have started to change their mind from medicine over to dentistry.

I was wondering how this would effect all us regular folks who dont have gpa in the high 3's like a 3.8 or 3.7.

One of my professors told me that these individuals apply for medical school and the ones who get rejected then move down to dentistry. Since their Gpa's are stellar they make it harder for everybody else to get admitted into dental school.

I was wondering if in two years time dentistry will be as comeptitive as pre-med is now.

My hunch is that yes some what, but however dentists are retiring at a quite a fast rate as well and to keep up with demand, that the schools are going to try and push out high number of dentists to meet that demand. Meaning more seats perhaps. Im not sure but just a guess.

I am really doubt that individual who got 3.8 or 3.7 got reject from med school unless they got horrible score on Mcat and no EC or research whatsoever.
A lot of predent has the same stat and still got reject. I think it is a combination of factors that got you into dental school or med school, not just base solely on GPA

 

[tamkhan]

I don't med school hopefuls moving into dentistry will significantly affect the dentist to patient ratio in the US. The ADA will fill up that gap by recruiting foreign trained dentists.

 

[blankguy]

I've noticed alot of people have started to change their mind from medicine over to dentistry.

I was wondering how this would effect all us regular folks who dont have gpa in the high 3's like a 3.8 or 3.7.

One of my professors told me that these individuals apply for medical school and the ones who get rejected then move down to dentistry. Since their Gpa's are stellar they make it harder for everybody else to get admitted into dental school.

I was wondering if in two years time dentistry will be as comeptitive as pre-med is now.

My hunch is that yes some what, but however dentists are retiring at a quite a fast rate as well and to keep up with demand, that the schools are going to try and push out high number of dentists to meet that demand. Meaning more seats perhaps. Im not sure but just a guess.

Statistically GPAwise it probably won't affect it that much because in some cases the GPA of dental schools are roughly the same as medical school. The GPA for dental school had been rising for quite some time. I hear about premeds reconsidering and becoming predents not because they couldn't hack it as premeds.

I heard that in the next decade there is going to be a large number of dental schools opening. We have already seen 2 in arizona, there's another one in California, East Carolina in North Carolina with UNC increasing enrollment, possibly another private one in Florida, and others that I have not heard from.

 

[Greensalad]

I for one would favor seeing higher avg GPAs. Anything lower than a 3.7 from a school that's not ~top 50 is not hard at all to achieve, regardless of workload, extracurriculars and personal issues. I definitely wouldn't want a slacker doctor who has a natural tendency to live by imperfection and indifference towards responsibility.

 

[JamieMac]

I heard that in the next decade there is going to be a large number of dental schools opening.

How large is this "large number"? This would not bode well for the profession. It is also no small task to just open a dental school. I think it would be better if existing schools just added spots...provided they have the infrastructure to do so.

 

[NSUfutureDDS]

I heard that in the next decade there is going to be a large number of dental schools opening. We have already seen 2 in arizona, there's another one in California, East Carolina in North Carolina with UNC increasing enrollment, possibly another private one in Florida, and others that I have not heard from.

Where did you hear about or see this? I'm really curious, especially whatever information you have about another Florida dental school opening.😎

 

[MnBr63]

I've noticed alot of people have started to change their mind from medicine over to dentistry.

I was wondering how this would effect all us regular folks who dont have gpa in the high 3's like a 3.8 or 3.7.

One of my professors told me that these individuals apply for medical school and the ones who get rejected then move down to dentistry. Since their Gpa's are stellar they make it harder for everybody else to get admitted into dental school.

I was wondering if in two years time dentistry will be as comeptitive as pre-med is now.

My hunch is that yes some what, but however dentists are retiring at a quite a fast rate as well and to keep up with demand, that the schools are going to try and push out high number of dentists to meet that demand. Meaning more seats perhaps. Im not sure but just a guess.

Again, I don't like that this is assuming that dental students are med school rejects. As someone else pointed out, there are different reasons for wanting to go dental instead of medical. One is not the back up of another.

As far as competitiveness goes, (*Please someone correct me if my numbers are off) The average Applicant/ Enroll ratio in DS was 23.54 Within the past 10 years the number of seats have not increased by much, only as a new school opens. Each of the only 56 dental schools has a set number of seats they are allowed to offer (most have around 80 seats, some with 35, some >100.) Yes there is a growing need for dentists, but that need doesn't make it easier to get into school since the number of seats in dental school are not growing as fast.

Last year more than 42,300 students applied to medical school and 17,800 were accepted (42%.) 4666 were accepted to dental school.


Numbers were obtained from the following sources:
http://www.aamc.org/newsroom/pressrel/2007/071016.htm
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=503848
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=502682

 

[blankguy]

Where did you hear about or see this? I'm really curious, especially whatever information you have about another Florida dental school opening.😎

Dental school faculty that I talked to. Of course I won't believe it until I see it.
10 school within the next 10 yrs. I am very skeptical about such reckless expansion. I take it with a grain of salt. I think a lot of this is just talk among the dental educators and administrators at this point. All this talk is confined to them so people like us don't have access to this info and it is speculation at this point.

 

[bkoh]

I've noticed alot of people have started to change their mind from medicine over to dentistry.

I was wondering how this would effect all us regular folks who dont have gpa in the high 3's like a 3.8 or 3.7.

One of my professors told me that these individuals apply for medical school and the ones who get rejected then move down to dentistry. Since their Gpa's are stellar they make it harder for everybody else to get admitted into dental school.

I was wondering if in two years time dentistry will be as comeptitive as pre-med is now.

Its already happening here in Canada, at least at the University of toronto.
Their avg GPA entrace for Dents actually surpassed the avg GPA for meds... I think it was 3.92 for dents vs 3.9 for meds 😛

 

[toofshucker]

After being rejected from an Allopathic school, there are a lot easier ways to become a doctor than dental school. I bet most pre-meds would rather be DO's than DMD's.