Taking DAT again without telling colleges

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i was wondering how to go about taking a second DAT to see if i could do better and send that to colleges, but I will be applying by end of June to dental schools and was going to take it in August and send only if it is better, otherwise i would just leave it. can you change that on teh application after submitting? how do you tell them if you had a change of heart and wanted to take it over after applying?
 
eBayGod said:
i was wondering how to go about taking a second DAT to see if i could do better and send that to colleges, but I will be applying by end of June to dental schools and was going to take it in August and send only if it is better, otherwise i would just leave it. can you change that on teh application after submitting? how do you tell them if you had a change of heart and wanted to take it over after applying?
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nope it automatically sends it to aadsas because it is connected to your dentpin, and then aadsas sends it to all the d schools. I applied last June, my test scores were sent two weeks after my test (aug 15thish, and aadsas automatically received my scores.
 
I never told the schools I was retaking. But as soon as I got the results I told every school by calling them. I even received 2 interview invites before I retook the dat. That took some pressure off.
 
bdarvish33 said:
nope it automatically sends it to aadsas because it is connected to your dentpin, and then aadsas sends it to all the d schools. I applied last June, my test scores were sent two weeks after my test (aug 15thish, and aadsas automatically received my scores.
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that ^
 
so it'll resend my current score and then resend once i take it again without telling them to, you're saying, right?
 
I'm not sure if you're approaching this properly. If you have a score that is on the border, I think the best thing to look at is which areas you can improve on or need to improve on, and from there see if you think that you do so. We can think of different ways of hiding a poor second DAT score from colleges all we want, but even if you did get a good second DAT score, but went in a roundabout way, don't you think that dental schools would pick up on that?
 
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