sophomore year and no ec's!

[brianbellau]

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I'm really worried that I haven't done any EC's yet since I've been focusing on school work.

My freshman year I worked as a caregiver at a Dementia Care Center (does this look good on application?) and my grades suffered for it, this semester I've been working on pulling my GPA back up but at the expense of no EC's or volunteering.

I'd like some suggestions on what kind of EC's and volunteering would be good (I know the answer is do what you interests you, but that's not specific enough since I'm not sure what interests me will look good to the adcoms), I'm at a CC so there aren't a lot of opportunities.

 

[jeffity]

I'm really worried that I haven't done any EC's yet since I've been focusing on school work.

My freshman year I worked as a caregiver at a Dementia Care Center (does this look good on application?) and my grades suffered for it, this semester I've been working on pulling my GPA back up but at the expense of no EC's or volunteering.

I'd like some suggestions on what kind of EC's and volunteering would be good (I know the answer is do what you interests you, but that's not specific enough since I'm not sure what interests me will look good to the adcoms), I'm at a CC so there aren't a lot of opportunities.

Make sure you are protecting grades and future DAT before entertaining ECs. Especially since it took a toll on you earlier. Also, make the jump to a 4 year soon. Those things will matter a whole lot more than any ECs. Don't worry too much about filling in blanks on the application.

Go with EC(s) you can be consistent with longterm. One over a long period says more than a bunch of one-day activities you just showed up for.

 

[AllHasOne]

Are you crazy? Focus on your grades man, you can start worrying about EC's once you finish your DAT.... Focus for now, you can easily get a lot of good connections with dentists in the future, right now your grades count.

 

[ToothbrushBuddy]

I also work at a dementia care facility, and did during college too. I don't think it was looked on that positively, they seemed to say, "why are you going into dentistry if you are a nursing assistant?" Just concentrate on grades and DAT now, maybe do dental-related volunteer work and shadow during school breaks.

 

[toothexplore]

any kind of volunteer work is good, but make sure you get the ball rolling on your shadowing hours

 

[Troyvdg]

I also work at a dementia care facility, and did during college too. I don't think it was looked on that positively, they seemed to say, "why are you going into dentistry if you are a nursing assistant?" Just concentrate on grades and DAT now, maybe do dental-related volunteer work and shadow during school breaks.

Really? Branching outside the field of dentistry makes you unique. As long as you are doing something that you enjoy and can take away a learning experience that you can apply to your future practice of dentistry, you're good to go.

They asked me about my work at a veterinary hospital..I just flipped it on them.