Shadowing Hours Proof

Started by MowgliR
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Do any dental schools verify that you did a certain amount of volunteer hours?

ASDOH requires you to state your volunteering bosses and hours in your supplemental application. Likewise Tufts requires you to have a LOR with 30 hrs. If they check up, I'm not sure.

Honesty is the best policy.
 
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Tufts asks for a letter from a dentist verifying you shadowed for 30 hours. I didn't end up getting this letter in until after my interview, however, and it was fine.
 
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I think I remember Ohio State asking me to send in a sheet with the dentists signature and number of hours observed. None of the other 11 schools I applied to asked for anything.
 
I will confirm that you need to get a signature from a dentist you shadowed for OSU
 
Shadowing is more for us to know dentistry is right for us. I don't think schools care too much for it and hence won't really to get proof you actually did it.

Schools could easily call up the office you shadowed in though. 😀