Recommended courses for dental school

[Patch34]

Hi all!

I have a question regarding recommended courses for dental school.

My adviser gave me a list of courses that they recommend taking before applying to dental school.

The list: Anatomy and Physiology, Microbiology, Genetics, Cell Biology, Animal Physiology, and Biochemistry.

I am a senior this year, and I plan on applying during the summer of 2014. I plan on taking the genetics, animal physiology, and biochemistry from the list during my senior year. I don't want to take anatomy and physiology, microbiology, and cell biology as the courses are known in my school as being one of the most intense classes. And I don't want to jeopardize my grade.... I was thinking of taking it during the year off that I will have.

My question is this, for any one applying or have applied:

1. Are dental schools not going to like my resume as they see that I do not have much upper science classes? All I will have is: Biology I and II, Physics I and II, Chemistry I and II, Organic Chemistry I and II, Genetics, Animal Physiology, and Biochemistry.

2. Recommended courses for dental school-- I know it is recommended, but will dental school prefer/have preferences towards students with all the courses from above?

3. Anyone apply without anatomy and physiology? My adviser keeps on pushing me to take it, but I am already overwhelmed with my other classes that I do not want to take and get a bad grade... Should I take it before applying to make me more competitive?

4. Anyone apply with a degree other than in sciences and had these troubles?

Thanks. And sorry for so many questions!

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[Changedude21]

Hi all!

I have a question regarding recommended courses for dental school.

My adviser gave me a list of courses that they recommend taking before applying to dental school.

The list: Anatomy and Physiology, Microbiology, Genetics, Cell Biology, Animal Physiology, and Biochemistry.

I am a senior this year, and I plan on applying during the summer of 2014. I plan on taking the genetics, animal physiology, and biochemistry from the list during my senior year. I don't want to take anatomy and physiology, microbiology, and cell biology as the courses are known in my school as being one of the most intense classes. And I don't want to jeopardize my grade.... I was thinking of taking it during the year off that I will have.

My question is this, for any one applying or have applied:

1. Are dental schools not going to like my resume as they see that I do not have much upper science classes? All I will have is: Biology I and II, Physics I and II, Chemistry I and II, Organic Chemistry I and II, Genetics, Animal Physiology, and Biochemistry.

2. Recommended courses for dental school-- I know it is recommended, but will dental school prefer/have preferences towards students with all the courses from above?

3. Anyone apply without anatomy and physiology? My adviser keeps on pushing me to take it, but I am already overwhelmed with my other classes that I do not want to take and get a bad grade... Should I take it before applying to make me more competitive?

4. Anyone apply with a degree other than in sciences and had these troubles?

Thanks. And sorry for so many questions!

1. I think as long as you did well in the ones you DID take, you should be fine. Adcoms like well rounded applicants, so if you are a non-science major and did well, they should like that.

2. I don't necessarily think so. Each school's website has a list of "recommended" courses, so you can look at that to get a better idea. I am a Bio major though and have taken most of those courses, so I guess a non-science major applying might be able to give better advice. I applied 2 years ago without microbiology, art/design classes, business classes and got 5 interviews.

3. I don't know. I took A&P. some schools require it though. Also, a lot of schools require biochem. and some others require microbiology. So you should take them eventually depending on what schools you want to apply to.

4. Maybe someone without a lot of science courses can help better. But if you have a good gpa and good sgpa in the science courses you have taken, along with a good DAT, schools won't really care which recommended courses you took.

 

[nardim]

Are the courses full year? My biochem class junior year was full year and I know it's beginning to looking like the "second orgo" in admissions, especially since it is a first year class in almost every dental school.

 

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