What is the most important thing on your transcript?

[besqaurewithme]

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hehe, vote!

 

[savvysearch]

I dont get it. Why would an interview be on your transcript?

 

[aphistis]

Indeed. The only poll item on your <em>grades</em> transcript might be, well, your <em>grades</em>.

 

[besqaurewithme]

Maybe I should have reread my original statement. But everyone gets it I hope 🙂

 

[Zurich5]

I would have to say my interview was the best thing on my transcript. I also hope to obtain my DMD one day, because I shadowed with a DMD and they're like way better than DDS's....just kidding, besquare funny pole.

 

[ecdoesit]

i thought this is a trick question 😕 😕

 

[shizzleDDS]

I think that the DAT is the MOST important factor for getting in. It is the best correlation for success in dental school, good on the DAT=good in dental school (usually that is).

 

[aphistis]

Originally posted by shizzleDDS
I think that the DAT is the MOST important factor for getting in. It is the best correlation for success in dental school, good on the DAT=good in dental school (usually that is).

Not necessarily. It's pretty widely acknowledged that the PAT in particular has little correlation with dental school success. As for the most important factor in the admissions decision, it changes depending on the school you're looking at. At IUSD, for example, science GPA is the most important factor.

 

[blankguy]

If PAT is of little correlation why did they include that in the DAT?

 

[aphistis]

They thought it was a good idea when they instituted it--no more subjective and time-consuming hand-scoring of chalk carvings! Since then, I'm guessing the combined forces of bureaucratic inertia, and the absence of ideas for a significantly better testing method, are keeping it in place.

 

[Thaxil]

Aphistis, you said that the science GPA is more important then other GPAs and other aspects.
How do you think they value BCP GPA? Can a low science GPA be balanced with an high BCP GPA?

 

[aphistis]

Originally posted by Thaxil
Aphistis, you said that the science GPA is more important then other GPAs and other aspects.
How do you think they value BCP GPA? Can a low science GPA be balanced with an high BCP GPA?

Just for clarification: I said IUSD weighs science GPA most heavily. Chances are we're not the only school who thinks that way, but you can't make generalized assumptions based on what my particular school does.

As for your situation, I suppose it's possible...but if you can pull A's in biology, chemistry, and physics classes, there's not much left to pull down your science GPA. Science and BCP GPA's aren't interchangeable, but the latter is a pretty big component of the former.

 

[Thaxil]

Thank Aphistis,

My science GPA is low do to some class I took in math that I did not put much effort in achieving my best grade.


To address the tread, I feel the GPA is the most important, not the number but the way you achieve it. An increasing GPA is stronger then the same GPA that is decreasing. Also, the major and course load per quarter.