Recommondation letters

[siba]

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I'm from ucsd, a big public school. I'm worried about asking professors for letters. Is recom letter a big thing for dental schools to look at? How did you guys to get good letters? I mean I know all the common "rules", like going to their office hours, talking to your professors after class, and getting noticed by gaining good grades in those classes. However, you all know how competivie it is to get noticed in a big school, especially in my school where majority of student want to enter some health-related grad schools. I'm definitely try my best to get As, but there definitely has to be more to get a good letter. Is it really worth it to get good rec letters? Thx!

 

[rupkaur]

I'm from ucsd, a big public school. I'm worried about asking professors for letters. Is recom letter a big thing for dental schools to look at? How did you guys to get good letters? I mean I know all the common "rules", like going to their office hours, talking to your professors after class, and getting noticed by gaining good grades in those classes. However, you all know how competivie it is to get noticed in a big school, especially in my school where majority of student want to enter some health-related grad schools. I'm definitely try my best to get As, but there definitely has to be more to get a good letter. Is it really worth it to get good rec letters? Thx!

Hi Siba, I know it is hard to get good letters. I don't know how imp is it to have letters bcz I am also applying this year. Try to ask unique questions from instructor. Sometimes, I ask questions, which are hard to be answered by professors. It does not matter what u got in the class, just try to make good impression on professor. I got letters where I got B in the class. You can try to work for any professor like research and get good letter there. If u are getting A, then I am sure professor can compare you with the class and write that I gave only 15 A out of 100 students and she is one of them. When u ask letter, most likelly professor will ask u about ure internship exp, ure overall GPA, how u r doing in other classes? In this way, professor can write all these things in the letter. I hope this will help.

 

[futrdentist]

I'm from ucsd, a big public school. I'm worried about asking professors for letters. Is recom letter a big thing for dental schools to look at? How did you guys to get good letters? I mean I know all the common "rules", like going to their office hours, talking to your professors after class, and getting noticed by gaining good grades in those classes. However, you all know how competivie it is to get noticed in a big school, especially in my school where majority of student want to enter some health-related grad schools. I'm definitely try my best to get As, but there definitely has to be more to get a good letter. Is it really worth it to get good rec letters? Thx!

I recommend you learn how to spell recommendation before you ask for any letters! Spelling is crucial to your credibility.

 

[aurora507]

I'm from ucsd, a big public school. I'm worried about asking professors for letters. Is recom letter a big thing for dental schools to look at? How did you guys to get good letters? I mean I know all the common "rules", like going to their office hours, talking to your professors after class, and getting noticed by gaining good grades in those classes. However, you all know how competivie it is to get noticed in a big school, especially in my school where majority of student want to enter some health-related grad schools. I'm definitely try my best to get As, but there definitely has to be more to get a good letter. Is it really worth it to get good rec letters? Thx!

Many of them will also ask for a copy of your personal statement, so be sure to spend some time writing a good one. You want them to see your passion for dentistry and determination to get into dental school, so that they can take what they saw as positives in you (eg. hard-working), and apply it to how ready they feel you are for the rigors of dental school.

 

[siba]

Thank you guys. As you've guessed, apparently English is not my first language (not that I wanna make excuse for spelling "recommendation" wrong. 🙁 )

Can I take my english composition courses in JC or abroad? I'm still a sophmore and not planning to take DAT soon.

Could you give some suggestions about how to improve reading session in DAT? I know to read books and journals in general. But it there anything specific that I can do make a drastic change? Thx!

 

[futrdentist]

Thank you guys. As you've guessed, apparently English is not my first language (not that I wanna make excuse for spelling "recommendation" wrong. 🙁 )

Can I take my english composition courses in JC or abroad? I'm still a sophmore and not planning to take DAT soon.

Could you give some suggestions about how to improve reading session in DAT? I know to read books and journals in general. But it there anything specific that I can do make a drastic change? Thx!

Hey, I recommend not reading the actual passages for the reading section and just jumping into the paragraphs. If you're not that good at English, then reading isn't really going to help you anyway (even if you are good, I'd skip them). The answers are in there word for word. Just gotta look for them, so spare yourself reading and save those extra 5 or 10 minutes for answer searching.

 

[reapply2007]

Good advice from the futrdentist. Or skim and then look for it. Ocassionally an understanding/thematic question pops up but you could miss all of those, but get all of the word search questions and do respectably.

Take a review course. It sounds like you'd benefit from it.

 

[siba]

Thanks everyone! 🙂 Can I take my english composition courses in JC or abroad? I'm still a sophmore and not planning to take DAT soon.