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Hi everyone,
I did my Masters in Neuropsychology overseas. When I moved to USA I decided to switch career and become a dentist. I went back to college to catch up with prereqs. I had 0 background in the sciences whatsoever since we didn't take any science courses during my curriculum.
Well, I applied to 15 schools in the last cycle. You can see my data on predents.com (http://predents.com/?page=user&user_id=9137).
I put so much money and effort in this process and didn't even get a single interview. This along with some personal issues pushed me into a severe depression. So I took a semester off to recover and retook the DAT. As you can pick from my data on predents.com I bombed the RC section but did ok in the other sections. I would hate to take the DAT for a third time specially since I know that I can't score high on the RC section. English is my third language and I did a lot of practice for my second attempt.
To my misfortunate adds that I have only taken one Upper level science course and got a 2.5 in it. I know this is a big red alarm on my application, so my plan is to take a bunch of upper level science courses during summer and fall semester.
The problem is schools don't tell me specifically what to work on. Some say I applied late (my second DAT was taken in Nov,so most schools reviewed my application with my first DAT score which was a AA18 TS17 RC17). Others, say it was that I didn't have enough Upper Level Science Courses. When I asked them if I should retake the DAT they weren't sure and they said its up to me.
How do u guys think are my chances for this cycle? And what would u do to maximize ur chance? I don't have the money to apply to 15 schools again so I will have to apply to 5 schools max.
Thank you all for your advice.
I did my Masters in Neuropsychology overseas. When I moved to USA I decided to switch career and become a dentist. I went back to college to catch up with prereqs. I had 0 background in the sciences whatsoever since we didn't take any science courses during my curriculum.
Well, I applied to 15 schools in the last cycle. You can see my data on predents.com (http://predents.com/?page=user&user_id=9137).
I put so much money and effort in this process and didn't even get a single interview. This along with some personal issues pushed me into a severe depression. So I took a semester off to recover and retook the DAT. As you can pick from my data on predents.com I bombed the RC section but did ok in the other sections. I would hate to take the DAT for a third time specially since I know that I can't score high on the RC section. English is my third language and I did a lot of practice for my second attempt.
To my misfortunate adds that I have only taken one Upper level science course and got a 2.5 in it. I know this is a big red alarm on my application, so my plan is to take a bunch of upper level science courses during summer and fall semester.
The problem is schools don't tell me specifically what to work on. Some say I applied late (my second DAT was taken in Nov,so most schools reviewed my application with my first DAT score which was a AA18 TS17 RC17). Others, say it was that I didn't have enough Upper Level Science Courses. When I asked them if I should retake the DAT they weren't sure and they said its up to me.
How do u guys think are my chances for this cycle? And what would u do to maximize ur chance? I don't have the money to apply to 15 schools again so I will have to apply to 5 schools max.
Thank you all for your advice.
