What are my chances? Need Advice/Opinions

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I would like to get advice and opinions from everyone here regarding whether I should give it a shot at applying for dental school this year.
A little background...
I am a first generation college student that went to a community college in california. I got my AA and did all my sciences, a year of BIO, CHEM, OCHEM, CALC, a year of physics and took a anatomy class. I had a 3.0gpa in all sciences and overall gpa. That is because I never took 2 non science classes that I did bad in.

I then transferred to a university and had a tough time my first quarter in biochem and virology. I ended up switching to a geography major, for various reasons, but mostly because I did not want to have a low gpa in fear that I would not be able to get it up by the time I graduated.

I graduated with an overall 3.0gpa and, good voluteering/shadowing experience and extra curricular activities, dental assistant liscense etc...Should I retake biochem and virology at the same school, different school? Should I take more sciences classes to show that I am capable of doing well in them? Apply for a post-bachelor program or a masters program? Please help me with some advice or opinions you may have as I am just lost now and dont know what to do..

Thanks everybody

 

[wired202808]

I would like to get advice and opinions from everyone here regarding whether I should give it a shot at applying for dental school this year.
A little background...
I am a first generation college student that went to a community college in california. I got my AA and did all my sciences, a year of BIO, CHEM, OCHEM, CALC, a year of physics and took a anatomy class. I had a 3.0gpa in all sciences and overall gpa. That is because I never took 2 non science classes that I did bad in.

I then transferred to a university and had a tough time my first quarter in biochem and virology. I ended up switching to a geography major, for various reasons, but mostly because I did not want to have a low gpa in fear that I would not be able to get it up by the time I graduated.

I graduated with an overall 3.0gpa and, good voluteering/shadowing experience and extra curricular activities, dental assistant liscense etc...Should I retake biochem and virology at the same school, different school? Should I take more sciences classes to show that I am capable of doing well in them? Apply for a post-bachelor program or a masters program? Please help me with some advice or opinions you may have as I am just lost now and dont know what to do..

Thanks everybody

3.0 GPA is very low and will probably equal a rejection. Take a masters program to boost up your grades. Average GPAs tend to hover between 3.4 to 3.6 (in regular and sGPAs)

Also w/o taking the DAT your chances cannot be quantified, if you get a high score on the DAT that might help but you still need a GPA bump. a 3.0 is not good for the average student and on average will be a rejection.

 

[TwentyTwelve]

3.0 GPA is very low and will probably equal a rejection. Take a masters program to boost up your grades. Average GPAs tend to hover between 3.4 to 3.6 (in regular and sGPAs)

Also w/o taking the DAT your chances cannot be quantified, if you get a high score on the DAT that might help but you still need a GPA bump. a 3.0 is not good for the average student and on average will be a rejection.

+1...

Its going to be tough going with a 3.0 no matter what your DAT score is...not that it can't be done but you will be up against a massive wall...

Your best bet is either do an informal post-bac and take the classes you tried to avoid by switching majors (microbio, immunology, histology, cell bio etc.) or complete a science based masters...

The fact that you got a 3.0 at a CC, did poorly in a university setting, and then switched majors to avoid science classes at a high level speaks very poorly to dental schools...thus, the way to improve this is to attack everything you previously could not do, or tried to avoid, to dispel any doubt schools may have about your academic ability...then of course do well on the DAT...

Good luck!! 👍

 

[teh dentist]

I had a 3.3 GPA from a major university. I had a very hard time applying but DID get in. I would take others advice, and do the masters, or post bac to get that GPA up. Keep your head up, you will get in with some determination!