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Predents.com: Still use it?
Started by PDizzle
I think you should set up a donation link because this site helped me judge where i should apply!!! and i can definitely donate!
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I second this, its an excellent idea.
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I miss using the site and like others was looking forward to using it this cycle! before it went down I used it a lot to help me narrow down my list of schools, which in turn saved me from sending out application fees to schools to which I didn't rank up next to the other applicants/attending students. It helped me make make more realistic choices and I would gladly donate some of the money i saved to the site that helped me to save it.
my apps are out the door and especially liked looking at the previous years' data as well as users' comments on individual schools, i.e. how they liked the campus, how the interview went, etc. so please keep those features! and i like the ideas of wiki-style editing and .edu addresses also. it worked for facebook! 🙂
thanks for what you've already done to help so many students and i look forward to the new site and donating. would be great to get a mailing list going or something so we can all know when it's up!
Dave
my apps are out the door and especially liked looking at the previous years' data as well as users' comments on individual schools, i.e. how they liked the campus, how the interview went, etc. so please keep those features! and i like the ideas of wiki-style editing and .edu addresses also. it worked for facebook! 🙂
thanks for what you've already done to help so many students and i look forward to the new site and donating. would be great to get a mailing list going or something so we can all know when it's up!
Dave
but what if someone has graduated 2 years ago and is planning on applying to dental school? In this case I think it's possible that said person would not have a ".edu" email address.
I think restricting membership in such a way would not be a good idea. There could be too many legit users excluded by this requirement and predents works best with more data points, even if there are a few bogus ones.
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Now you can donate the money you would have spent on ink and paper!
i will also donate.
I will donate too... We need predents.com.
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Is predents coming back? I miss it!!! lol
I am willing to donate too 🙂 eventhought i won't apply till next cycle
I'm in the process of starting a Predental website which will have some overlap with predents.com. So, it will have a statistic sharing platform but with some additions such as GPA graphs, and internal PM capabilities and other ideas that I have and read from around the forum.
But aside from that I want to make this website a lot bigger and contain EVERYTHING a US/Canadian dental school applicant may need.....DAT info, application info, AADSAS info, school info, interivew info and many other aspects. Of course this is not an overnight project and will take a lot of time, effort and money.
Using the website will of course be free.
In order to get started I launched a indiegogo.com compaign. indiegogo.com is sort of like kickstarter which can be used in Canada. People on the website browse campaigns and donate to ones they like. Anyway, if any of you are interested in donating here is the link. Any donations will really help.
http://www.indiegogo.com/PreDentalWorld
Also, if you have some website design skills and are interested in the project PM me.
But aside from that I want to make this website a lot bigger and contain EVERYTHING a US/Canadian dental school applicant may need.....DAT info, application info, AADSAS info, school info, interivew info and many other aspects. Of course this is not an overnight project and will take a lot of time, effort and money.
Using the website will of course be free.
In order to get started I launched a indiegogo.com compaign. indiegogo.com is sort of like kickstarter which can be used in Canada. People on the website browse campaigns and donate to ones they like. Anyway, if any of you are interested in donating here is the link. Any donations will really help.
http://www.indiegogo.com/PreDentalWorld
Also, if you have some website design skills and are interested in the project PM me.
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Your link just takes me to the generic website, I can't see your project or any details about what you're trying to accomplish with that link.
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As much as I admire your ambitious plans, I have to ask: do you have programming experience? Building a website with the scope and high level of interactivity that you are proposing takes more than simple forms and html. If you do, more power to you! If you don't, best to start looking for someone who's got the expertise to set the project in motion. Building a website is easier said than done.
I do have website and programming experience. However, this website will take a lot of work so I want to have some help in the website building department.
Best of luck to you, keep up posted! I'd offer to lend a hand, but knowledge from the couple programming classes I took in undergrad has since been replaced by orgo rxns, random taxonomy, and other factoids I'll surely forget in two years.
ps. nice fish tank in your video... fresh or salt?
Haha. It's fresh. I have two other fresh ones but I want to get a salt one. Maybe in dental school.
LOL this is funny. My current spendings are $80 a month. Includes everything to maintain my life... yes $80, in a MAIN CITY.
I think I am the epitome of resourcefulness, either that or I just love to be cheap.
What?! what about living expenses, rent, phone bills, internet bills. I'd like to see a breakdown before I believe this.
I think a site subscription fee may narrow your data set of DAT & GPA scores. I wouldn't want to pay $5 to view & report my scores especially once I have already gained admission.
Lots of sites operate on donations and revenue from ads. I'd love to see the site back up and wouldn't mind paying $5 but I don't think you would have the same data set as you did before so the site would really not be the same as before. Why not have a system like SDN where donations get you perks?
Hope that helps
Lots of sites operate on donations and revenue from ads. I'd love to see the site back up and wouldn't mind paying $5 but I don't think you would have the same data set as you did before so the site would really not be the same as before. Why not have a system like SDN where donations get you perks?
Hope that helps
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I'm happy to announce that SDN has licensed MDApplicants software to implement a new predents.com style system. The programming team is currently working on updating the scripts for the dental community and it will be available very soon!
We are working on creating the new site based on MDApplicants and have a quick question:
Is there an analog to an MD/PhD or DO/PhD for DDS/DMD that should be included, or is this such an unusual case that it is not worth including?
Is there an analog to an MD/PhD or DO/PhD for DDS/DMD that should be included, or is this such an unusual case that it is not worth including?
It exists. DDS and DMD are synonymous. DDS/PhD or DMD/PhD.
would like to preface this with the fact that i have applied and been accepted to multiple dds/phd programs:
while it does exist, it is nothing like the MD/PhD. i'm not sure if it's worth including, since just about every single school that offers it has a different application process. it is absolutely not streamlined and i do not think it would be effective to have it implemented in the site. for example: some schools accept you simultaneously to DDS/PhD, some accept to DDS and then PhD or vice versa, some accept to DDS and then not PhD until 1 or 2 years later. that and there are only a handful of people (i'm thinking 2 or 3) on SDN that are vocal about this type of program.. this is in line with what I've heard from program directors, that the few available spots of these types of programs are not filled each year.
feel free to add it, but as someone who dabbles in programming, it seems like it would be a complete nightmare to implement this in an effective way when the application process itself is terribly disorganized and not very popular.
It is rather rare, I wouldn't even bother with it.
Thanks for the feedback. We'll strike this field from the DDSApps implementation.
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