Thank you in advance to anyone reading through all of this! I am planning to apply in June, but I am pretty concerned about my GPA. Suggestions on my school list would also be appreciated!
Undergrad School: Flagship university with its own dental school
Overall GPA: 3.39
Science GPA: 3.40
Bio-Chem-Physics GPA: 2.97
DAT score (include AA and all sections): PA: 21, QR: 21, RC: 24, Bio: 19, Gen Chem: 28, OChem: 21, Total Sci: 21, AA: 23
State of Residence: California
Major: Anthropology: Human Evolutionary Biology | Anthropology: Medical Anthropology & Global Health
Minority? Filipino?
Shadowing Experience: Shadowed multiple dental students, oral surgeons, and an endodontist
Volunteering Experience:
Relevant Honors or Awards: Graduating from Honors Department, Eagle Scout (is this relevant?)
Misc Info/Things not stated elsewhere: Fluent in Spanish.
School list:
University of Washington
UCSF
UOP
USC
UCLA
Colorado
Boston University
Virginia Commonwealth
Loma Linda
Tufts
University of Michigan
NYU
Oregon Health & Science University
Undergrad School: Flagship university with its own dental school
Overall GPA: 3.39
Science GPA: 3.40
Bio-Chem-Physics GPA: 2.97
DAT score (include AA and all sections): PA: 21, QR: 21, RC: 24, Bio: 19, Gen Chem: 28, OChem: 21, Total Sci: 21, AA: 23
State of Residence: California
Major: Anthropology: Human Evolutionary Biology | Anthropology: Medical Anthropology & Global Health
Minority? Filipino?
Shadowing Experience: Shadowed multiple dental students, oral surgeons, and an endodontist
Volunteering Experience:
- General dentistry clinic volunteer (clinical, 100 hours)
- Boy Scouts of America (I still occasionally volunteer even though I “finished” Eagle Scout in high school)
- Braille Institute (Learned excellent communication skills working with blind students)
- Non-clinical assistant at my university’s oral surgery clinic. (1600 hours).
- Tutoring students from my high school in various subjects (170 hours)
- Dental Assistant at a private Endo clinic (some chairside experience) (100 hours)
- Honors Thesis on osteoarthritis (presented at a symposium)
- 3D scanning of small bones/teeth for an evolutionary bio-anthropology lab (126 hours)
Relevant Honors or Awards: Graduating from Honors Department, Eagle Scout (is this relevant?)
Misc Info/Things not stated elsewhere: Fluent in Spanish.
School list:
University of Washington
UCSF
UOP
USC
UCLA
Colorado
Boston University
Virginia Commonwealth
Loma Linda
Tufts
University of Michigan
NYU
Oregon Health & Science University
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