Timeline Help

[jrdnshaffer]

Hello everyone, this is my first time posting on the site and have learned a lot of useful information as far applying to dental school, but I have a weird situation on my hands.

I go to a school on the quarter system and I missed a quarter my sophomore year due to having labrum and rotator cuff surgery from baseball. The way my school offers organic chem is that you have to take the classes 3 quarters in a row. This made it to where I had to wait to take my o-chems this year, pushing me back on taking the DAT until summer.

I will be graduating in the fall and am wondering if I should take the DAT as soon as I am finished with my organics and apply to schools in the summer or if I should wait and apply until I have graduated in the fall and take a gap year. Regardless, I feel as though I will have a gap year no matter what. Any tips or useful advice would be greatly appreciated!!

 

[887194]

Well if you apply this cycle, you will save a year. I took the DAT w/o taking Orgo 2 and used chad videos for Orgo review. You can probably take the DAT in June/July. As long as everything else is ready, you should be okay.

 

[jing jing e]

if it's only dat that's holding you back, go for it this year. that is you have everything else mostly set by the time school ends so you can focus on dat