WAMC School List as CA Resident

[predentjj]

Hi, I'm currently making my dental schools list and I'm looking for any input. Please let me know if there are any suggestions for other schools or with the current schools. Thank you!

Date of submission: Early, June/July
Overall GPA: 3.793
Science GPA: 3.842
DAT score (include AA and all sections): 21 AA, 22 TS, 22 Bio, 23 GC, 21 OC, 20 RC, 21 QR, 24 PAT
State of Residence: CA

Major: Biology
Minority? Yes
Reapplicant? No
Nontrad? No

Shadowing Experience: 150+ hours - 40 with oral surgeon and 110+ with general dentist
Volunteering Experience: 400+ hours - dental volunteering with general dentist, teaching elementary students about the importance of oral health and hygiene, tutoring and advising community college students and high school students in marginalized communities, directing health fairs in the LA area about hypertension prevention
Research: 100+ hours of research, named an author in presentation but no publications
Other Extracurriculars: Heavily involved in cultural clubs such as cultural dances, board positions in cultural club and cultural health club

School list:
UCLA, UOP, UCSF, UPenn, UoA, Midwestern-AZ, Midwestern-IL, Tufts, OHSU, UMich, UNLV, UMaryland, and Marquette

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[macsak]

Hi, I'm currently making my dental schools list and I'm looking for any input. Please let me know if there are any suggestions for other schools or with the current schools. Thank you!

Date of submission: Early, June/July
Overall GPA: 3.793
Science GPA: 3.842
DAT score (include AA and all sections): 21 AA, 22 TS, 22 Bio, 23 GC, 21 OC, 20 RC, 21 QR, 24 PAT
State of Residence: CA

Major: Biology
Minority? Yes
Reapplicant? No
Nontrad? No

Shadowing Experience: 150+ hours - 40 with oral surgeon and 110+ with general dentist
Volunteering Experience: 400+ hours - dental volunteering with general dentist, teaching elementary students about the importance of oral health and hygiene, tutoring and advising community college students and high school students in marginalized communities, directing health fairs in the LA area about hypertension prevention
Research: 100+ hours of research, named an author in presentation but no publications
Other Extracurriculars: Heavily involved in cultural clubs such as cultural dances, board positions in cultural club and cultural health club

School list:
UCLA, UOP, UCSF, UPenn, UoA, Midwestern-AZ, Midwestern-IL, Tufts, OHSU, UMich, UNLV, UMaryland, and Marquette

how did you come up with this list?
what school is UoA?

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Can you be more specific how your identify as a minority?

 

[predentjj]

how did you come up with this list?
what school is UoA?

Thanks for your reply! I chose instate schools because I'm a CA resident, and the OOS schools were based on whether they were OOS friendly and how many CA students enrolled in those schools and taking my DAT score into account. Sorry, UoA is ASDOH.

 

[predentjj]

Can you be more specific how your identify as a minority?

Thanks for your reply! I'm Hispanic/Asian.

 

[macsak]

Thanks for your reply! I chose instate schools because I'm a CA resident, and the OOS schools were based on whether they were OOS friendly and how many CA students enrolled in those schools and taking my DAT score into account. Sorry, UoA is ASDOH.

UCLA
UOP
UCSF
UPenn
UMich
5 of the 8 or so most difficult schools to get into in the US outside of the texas schools
you have good stats, but these schools are reaches for everyone

OHSU
UNLV
UMaryland
in-line public schools, but i don't understand umaryland. i would recommend choosing a couple publics closer to CA and removing maryland.

ASDOH
Midwestern-AZ
Midwestern-IL
Tufts
Marquette
these are safeties for you, tufts and marquette are outliers geographically, and you likely don't need this many safeties anyways

 

[drDental_]

Thanks for your reply! I chose instate schools because I'm a CA resident, and the OOS schools were based on whether they were OOS friendly and how many CA students enrolled in those schools and taking my DAT score into account. Sorry, UoA is ASDOH.

Marquette isn’t actually OOS-friendly having accepted ~ 6.09 % of OOS applicants in 2022 per ADEA OG. They also only enrolled three CA residents the same year.

 

[predentjj]

UCLA
UOP
UCSF
UPenn
UMich
5 of the 8 or so most difficult schools to get into in the US outside of the texas schools
you have good stats, but these schools are reaches for everyone

OHSU
UNLV
UMaryland
in-line public schools, but i don't understand umaryland. i would recommend choosing a couple publics closer to CA and removing maryland.

ASDOH
Midwestern-AZ
Midwestern-IL
Tufts
Marquette
these are safeties for you, tufts and marquette are outliers geographically, and you likely don't need this many safeties anyways

I see, do you think it's worth it to apply to all five of those reach schools then or should I cut down on them? If anything, I'd probably reconsider the OOS reach schools. I'll take a look at UMaryland again and refine my list a bit more. Thanks for your input!

 

[predentjj]

Marquette isn’t actually OOS-friendly having accepted ~ 6.09 % of OOS applicants in 2022 per ADEA OG. They also only enrolled three CA residents the same year.

Ohh okay, thank you for letting me know! Wouldn't that statistic by ADEA OG be due to the high number of OOS applications? I was just looking at the Booster statistics where they say that 51% of the class were OOS students so I'm a bit confused. But yea, 3 CA resident doesn't sound that appealing... I guess just to clarify, what makes a school OOS friendly?

 

[macsak]

I see, do you think it's worth it to apply to all five of those reach schools then or should I cut down on them? If anything, I'd probably reconsider the OOS reach schools. I'll take a look at UMaryland again and refine my list a bit more. Thanks for your input!

your list should be a few reach schools, mostly in-range schools, and a couple safeties
you can have 5 reaches, as long as you don't reduce the amount of in-range or safety schools...

 

[predentjj]

your list should be a few reach schools, mostly in-range schools, and a couple safeties
you can have 5 reaches, as long as you don't reduce the amount of in-range or safety schools...

Gotcha, thank you!

 

[drDental_]

Ohh okay, thank you for letting me know! Wouldn't that statistic by ADEA OG be due to the high number of OOS applications?

Partially, yes (140 OOS offers / 2,298 OOS applicants).

I was just looking at the Booster statistics where they say that 51% of the class were OOS students so I'm a bit confused.

This is the class distribution.

But yea, 3 CA resident doesn't sound that appealing... I guess just to clarify, what makes a school OOS friendly?

See above.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

The DSE (which is just the OG) has Marquette with a 50/50 distribution goal of in-state/OOS. The latest information:
2125 OOS applied, 242 interviewed (11%) for 51 matriculants (class of 100). 13 states, no Canadians are represented.

Not all private schools hold seats for in-state candidates. For example,
Midwestern AZ: 2321 applied, 317 interviewed (13.7%), 108 matriculated out of 146 total students. 26 states and 3 countries (non-AZ).

The real question: have you been to Milwaukee? In the winter?

I agree: pick a closer public than Maryland. You skipped over the Utah and Colorado schools, but maybe you don't like the cold or altitude. If you have Pacific, you might as well try Roseman.