I've been accepted! It's my first school, I'm going to be a dentist!! I interviewed last week.
Dat: 20 aa, 21 oc, 21gc, 19b, 18q, 23rc, 20pat,
GPA:3.76 total, 3.8 sci, non traditional student, masters, lots and lots of research, applied mid August
Today at 3pm
I don’t know how big your group will be but you start out in a general presentation and opening remarks, then you break off into smaller groups. From there you interview with two different faculty members for one on interviews. Very laid back, they just really want to get to know you. After that you have a lunch and get to speak to a D3 which is cool. Really laid back, honestly. Nice people
Mine is 2/5! It's my first interview, so I'm nervous, but I'm super excited.
If you miss a call they don’t say “well that’s too bad, let’s move to the next one on the list and I hope they get in somewhere,” right? They leave a voicemail don’t they?
I would assume so? I think it would be pretty lame if they did that so I doubt it
Congrats!
I think they have more because I have one on Feb 5
Was this in your most recent semester?
It was during Fall 2017. My current GPA is a 3.6 and my DAT scores are 23 AA and 23 TS.
It doesn’t look “good” but you have great DAT scores and a competitive GPA. I got a C+ in biochemistry the semester before I applied last year and they really browbeat me about it but your numbers are better than mine
Thanks a lot for your response
I appreciate the encouragement! I think we all could use it
Did they acknowledge the update to your application? I would send an update letter ASAP letting them know that you improved X scores and took X classes and are still VERY interested in their program. I would send it ASAP incase they are stopping interviews soon.
nope, you can't. out of staters need to sign a form that says they acknowledge they're locked into the out of state price for all four years
There were about 30 students at my interview, they broke us up into two groups, one group went and did the tour/information sessions and the other group did their interviews and then we switched. You're interviewed by two people, sometimes it was two professors but occasionally it's been a professor and a student. You are interviewed one on one. One of the interviewers will have read your personal statement (but nothing else) and the other will only know your name. I believe you get about 30 minutes for each interview. There's also a lunch portion where you get to eat with a D3/D4 and ask questions.
They probably wouldn't ask unless it's in your PS. One interviewer has only read your PS and the other hasn't seen your application at all. I wasn't specifically asked about my grades, but I was asked "is there anything in your application that you'd me to discuss at the admissions meet?" (or something) and I had a couple C's in some freshman/sophomore courses and a lower PAT score, so I did bring that up and just said with my grades you could see an upward trend, and assured them that I was well prepared to enter and thrive in dental school for x,y,z reasons.
Have you been accepted to both?
UofL is a higher ranked dental school(12th in the nation I believe) has brand new facilities and allows for rotations in specialities once your are D3/D4. UK had a smaller class size and is finishing up renovations currently. I’m not sure if UK does rotations in specialties. Both are doing digital dentistry!
No I’m not too concerned with those issues. The dental school and it’s members are great in my mind!
My concern is more about the possible lack of funding opportunities these scandals create. I have no doubts about the faculty members and ULSD, but I do worry that it will decrease scholarship opportunity. I'm also not sure how the state budget cuts affect the dental school but it does seem like Governor Bevin has it out for UL.
