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Take Spring Semester off for DAT?
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say good bye to your dentistry career
I would not do that. Better to study for it while taking classes.
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take it in the summer to get max study time if you can... unless you really didn't retain any material from your classes waiting a semester and a month or two won't kill you.
You won't need a whole semester to study for the DAT. If you learned the material when you were taking the classes, you will need at most 3 to 4 weeks of full time study. A better plan is to take a light load of sciences classes related to the DAT and schedule a few hours a day to study for the whole semester.
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the dat isn't that bad. you need 3 weeks to prep; you'd be bored if you took a whole semester off. you learn most of the material completing your prereq's. plus if you can't do dat prep with like 18 credit hours, then you should worry. dent school is a lot more intense than that combo.
You would be competing against 1000's of others who managed 16 credits and still found time to study...but you CAN do it if you want. I wouldn't recommend it.
