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KHANSAHAAB

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I get the feeling (from reading a previous thread) that Dental schools consider Canadian gpa's (a person who did undergrad from a canadian school) to be lower than an American gpa (a person who did undergrad from an american school) if their gpa's are the same.

True or False
 
KHANSAHAAB said:
I get the feeling (from reading a previous thread) that Dental schools consider Canadian gpa's (a person who did undergrad from a canadian school) to be lower than an American gpa (a person who did undergrad from an american school) if their gpa's are the same.

True or False
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false?

P.S. let me know what the correct answer is too!
 
KHANSAHAAB said:
I get the feeling (from reading a previous thread) that Dental schools consider Canadian gpa's (a person who did undergrad from a canadian school) to be lower than an American gpa (a person who did undergrad from an american school) if their gpa's are the same.

True or False
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why don't you start a poll? take bets? do something!
 
I would say that is FALSE!
AADSAS calculates your GPA and send it the schools, I highly doubt that schools automatically slash something like 0.5 from your GPA if you went to a Canadian school, especially private schools.
Now, for state schools this might be the case, but all out-of-state applicants are treated in the same way. State Schools usually tell you on their website, out-of-state applicants need a higher GPA to be considered.
 
Don't forget, you're not considered just out of state. You all are still considered foreigners- even if you are just Canadians. You start out at a major disadvantage (bottom of the ranking just because of where you come from- even at the couple of private schools I've talked to). I think that's where this rumor stems from.
 
ISU_Steve said:
Don't forget, you're not considered just out of state. You all are still considered foreigners- even if you are just Canadians. You start out at a major disadvantage (bottom of the ranking just because of where you come from- even at the couple of private schools I've talked to). I think that's where this rumor stems from.
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I don't understand what that suppose to mean 😕
I applied last cycle and never felt that I was discriminated against because I was Canadian, I even got an interview to a U of Mich (highly respected state school).
I would say that most if not all private schools treat all applicants equally, and Canadians are not treated as foreigners by lots of schools, there are in fact few "Canadian applicant friendly" schools such as BU, NYU, D. Mercy and Case.
 
But you are at a disadvantage because of your source country at MOST schools. At least you speak passable English, unlike a lot of the 3rd world foreigners who try to come over here and take our spots in dental and medical schools for whom the idea of verbs, nouns, and basic sentence structure elude them. If your name is Patel, etc. and you weren't born here, then you have no reason to come here just to become an MD or DDS (although it's more of a problem with med schools than dental programs). Sorry, don't mean to rant, but it does irritate me that perfectly good American candidates are being passed over to educate people with no ties to this continent, let alone this country.
 
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