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Assuming all the other qualifications are good, how likely is a dental school going to accept you if you've previously been dismissed from med. school.
question from a med. school dropout
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I went through your previous posts and was stumped by some of your remarks.
"Like I said, I'm against foreigners coming to my house and taking my bread. If every US med. student was given 4 month to study, we could pretty much make the boards irrelevant since everyone would get really high scores. And in response to the notion that we need FMGs to make the US medical system work, we've recently increased admissions here in the states so that we need less of your...ahem "assistance".
If you think so highly of yourself, why don't you stay in your country and practice there. "
Although on the side note, i feel sorry for the situation you are going through. Acceptance to any dental school is not easy anymore. They look at every aspects of your academia and social part as well as your life experiences.
My best bet would be to talk to people at the d schools or Optometry schools (if you are thinking of that as well).
"Like I said, I'm against foreigners coming to my house and taking my bread. If every US med. student was given 4 month to study, we could pretty much make the boards irrelevant since everyone would get really high scores. And in response to the notion that we need FMGs to make the US medical system work, we've recently increased admissions here in the states so that we need less of your...ahem "assistance".
If you think so highly of yourself, why don't you stay in your country and practice there. "
Although on the side note, i feel sorry for the situation you are going through. Acceptance to any dental school is not easy anymore. They look at every aspects of your academia and social part as well as your life experiences.
My best bet would be to talk to people at the d schools or Optometry schools (if you are thinking of that as well).
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I'm not sure. At many of my interviews, I had interviewers and dental students tell me that their dental students have a more rigorous schedule than the med students and that their med students have much more free time than their dental students. (Obviously I can't speak from experience. This is just what I have been told by adcoms and other students.) If you were dismissed from med school, they might think that you can't handle dental school.
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Depends on why you left med school. Being dismissed for academic failure or ethical breach isn't going to endear you to dental schools who have plenty of other applicants to pick from.
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Good luck but it will be difficult especially when there are so many other good qualified applicants that haven't yet been givena a chance. Second chances are hard to come by in professional schools.
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Just apply to the private schools. You can look them up on the ADA website.
All they care about is the $$$$$
Heck if you're willing to spend 100K/year for 4-5 years, they'll take in anyone! Especially if you have the ethical and academic potential.
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wow...ridiculous. gunnerDMD is running through forums like he invented amalgam. haha like it was said before, it depends why you left. there are no magical numbers that will get you into dental school. they might get you an interview, but this question might make/break your chances.
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Dental school is extremely challenging, and should only be attempted if you have a STRONG interest in this unique field. Some schools may overlook being 'dismissed' from medical school - be careful though, you may only be setting yourself up for failure. (BTW, the best schools to look at would be BU, NYU, USC).
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what do you call a doctor that failed out of med school?
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err I believe the answer to that joke would be a dentist...
All the med school dropouts and rejects turning to dentistry are making this joke into a reality.
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bud um chee
We'll follow this case and see if this joke holds true. Good Luck Reborn07.
We'll follow this case and see if this joke holds true. Good Luck Reborn07.
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Huh? What're you based this on? Dental school applications are higher than ever.
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Your chances are probably not too good. If you couldn't handle med school, what makes you think you could handle dental school? For the first two years, dental students have it much worse than meds...
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This is equally silly. Unless you've been through both, you have no idea whether or not this is true.
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Looking at this persons post history I get the impression he/she had trouble passing one of the med school STEP exams. Those exams are pretty tough; tougher than dental school boards. For example, Yah-E did well enough on the dental boards to get into an MD-OMFS program, yet was booted out because he couldn't pass STEP I.
The REAL question here is: should you be entering a field just because it's financially and social hierarchically similar to the one you got booted out of? I don't think so. If you have no interest in TEETH, dental school is going to be tough for you.
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Aphistis, i say that because my brother is in medical school, same year as myself and we talk frequently. I should have put a "tends to be" in there I suppose. Dents have much more class time and lab work on top of didactics...Most meds that I have talked to admit that dental school is rougher for the first 2 years, save the boards of course.
Sucks that he had trouble with the boards...maybe he would do just fine in dental school. I know the med boards are significantly harder...but even that I hear is changing.
Sucks that he had trouble with the boards...maybe he would do just fine in dental school. I know the med boards are significantly harder...but even that I hear is changing.
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Just out of curiosity I wonder how many dental schools will accept a med school dropout/reject vs medical schools willing to accept a dental school dropout/reject.
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A person's motivation for wherever they are applying is what would likely be asked about, so, maybe (total guess) it would be easier to convince people that you realized you weren't that into teeth, or you had no aptitude for fixing them, than it would be to convince people you suddenly realized all you were ever interested in was teeth...?! (A pure speculation - I'm out of my league on this one! LOL! I just know I'd be more suspicious of the med school dropout wanting to go into dental school than I would be of the dental student wanting to switch into medicine, not because of anything other than motivation.)
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I have to give your props for randomly bringing this thread back!
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Your chances are VERY slim to none. Dental school is much more harder to than medical school to gain admission to, and twice as hard to complete. I don't know why you were dropped from med school, but if it was for performance reasons you would definitely have hard time completing 4 years in dentistry. It's a much more rigorous and fast pace course of study, especially if it isn't your first choice, you don't have a passion for it which will make it even harder.
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A bit extreme.
Do they care about money? Yeah which school doesn't. Also no state funding = higher tuition.
They take anyone? If by anyone you mean they don't give preference to instate then I agree.
What a load of crap. He had extreme difficulty getting into the OMFS program, trying over and over multiple times.
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