What are my options?

[honeycomb1220]

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I graduated last year with a degree in engineering and a 2.8 gpa. In school I went through a some family problems and wasn't really sure what I wanted to do with my life so it was hard for me to stay focused in my classes. I worked for a year and realized engineering is not for me. I quit my job and did some soul searching and came to the conclusion that I want to pursue dentistry.

-My dilemma here is obviously my gpa, but also I have to finish my Bio and Orgo chem prereqs.
-Should i take my prereqs and if I hopefully get all A's maybe think about applying If I receive a good enough DAT score or should I consider additional postbacc work to push my gpa up to a 3.0?
-I really want to go to dental school, I just want to get there with the most proper planning possible?

 

[Teeths]

I graduated last year with a degree in engineering and a 2.8 gpa. In school I went through a some family problems and wasn't really sure what I wanted to do with my life so it was hard for me to stay focused in my classes. I worked for a year and realized engineering is not for me. I quit my job and did some soul searching and came to the conclusion that I want to pursue dentistry.

-My dilemma here is obviously my gpa, but also I have to finish my Bio and Orgo chem prereqs.
-Should i take my prereqs and if I hopefully get all A's maybe think about applying If I receive a good enough DAT score or should I consider additional postbacc work to push my gpa up to a 3.0?
-I really want to go to dental school, I just want to get there with the most proper planning possible?

You obviously have to get all of the prereq classes done, so that'll increase your science GPA but it's important that you get A's in these classes!! You really need to get your science GPA up to a 3.0, not just cumulative GPA, so you can do this by taking science classes as an informal post bac or look into SMP (biomedical or science heavy masters program that's completed in a year usually). The SMP will cost you, but if you do well in it and on your DAT you'll be able to make it into dental school. Good luck

 

[honeycomb1220]

I know this might be a silly question but dental schools calculate the science gpa as your bio, chem and physics classes right? Do they count math classes in your science gpa as well?