What do I need for Harvard?

[Daniel Schruth]

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DMD/MBA from Harvard or UPenn/Wharton? For Harvard, probably 24+ DAT and 730+ GMAT. 22+ DAT for UPenn and 730+ GMAT. Scoring in the 99th percentile in both of these exams is a tall order. Looks like you have to apply to both programs independently and be accepted to both. What experience do you have to make you attractive to HBS or Wharton? I applied to business school before dental school, but only to the big 3. I had a 730+ GMAT, advanced science degree from a prestigious university, very unique work background and I didn't get interviews at Wharton or Harvard, though I did interview at Stanford GSB. I also scored 24+ on the DAT and did not get an interview at HSDM.

What you need to really be shooting for is to get into the cheapest dental school as possible.

Big Hoss

Listen to Big Hoss. The importance of applying to the cheapest dental school possible cannot be reiterated enough. Educational debt can burden your career much more than an ivy league DDS degree can help it.

I admire the honesty of your post. However, if you truly wish to run a dental corporation someday (and I've worked for several both "corporate owned" and "dentist owned") you may just want to start one yourself. I think that may be easier than attempting to join an existing corporation. Furtherly, if you did start your own dental corporation, keeping your educational debt low and starting early is paramount.

 

[Potatoserv]

Harvard needs research experience. I didn’t have any and didn’t even get an interview. 28AA and about same gpa as you with tons of extracurriculars. Best of luck!

YMMV, I managed to get an interview with no research on my app

 

[BMEndo]

Take everything you read here with a grain of salt. I worked along side plenty of ivey league grads at amazon and all of them self promoted out within a year. People skills and experience are much better indicators of future sucess than name of the school you went to. Sucessful people can go to any school and become sucessful. Schools don't make sucessful people, experience does.