which school is easier to enter?
Started by iamcylee
All dental schools are tough to gain admission. Based on my experience last year, schools like Arizona, UNC, Pacific, Nova, Kentucky, and Harvard were difficult to get into.
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Howard only takes minorities? doesn't that include everyone except for caucasians?
is howard really an "easy" school to get into? From stats, it seems that way.
is howard really an "easy" school to get into? From stats, it seems that way.
Howard:
STATISTICS ON FALL 2004 CLASS
- The average age ranged from 21 to 24
- 55% are females
- 78% are underrepresented minorities (not white and probably not asian)
- Class size: 83
- Average GPA: 3.04
- Average DAT Total Science: 15 (<50th percentile!?!?!?)
- National Board Results: Average passing score Part I 80% and Part II 83% (national average is like 85%?!?!?)
Average Passing? That means that only the passing scores were averaged into their average. I wonder what it would be if they actually included all the scores not just the ones that were passing grades.
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WOW
STATISTICS ON FALL 2004 CLASS
- The average age ranged from 21 to 24
- 55% are females
- 78% are underrepresented minorities (not white and probably not asian)
- Class size: 83
- Average GPA: 3.04
- Average DAT Total Science: 15 (<50th percentile!?!?!?)
- National Board Results: Average passing score Part I 80% and Part II 83% (national average is like 85%?!?!?)
Average Passing? That means that only the passing scores were averaged into their average. I wonder what it would be if they actually included all the scores not just the ones that were passing grades.
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WOW
oldboy said:
and yet i got rejected by them w/ a 21/21/16 last year..
iamcylee said:
No school is easy to get into. Including Howard. There are 83 seats at Howard and I'm sure they had 1000 applications for them.
I know it strikes many that Howard's stats are low, but Howard is on a mission to find minorities who haven't had an easy upbringing and turn them into professionals. Its not a school for 99% of white kids. Howard is completely different in philosophy than most dental schools. If you go to Howard, I've been told its what you make of your time there. If you work hard, you'll learn science and dentistry and pass your boards and if you don't then you fail them and you retake them and become a dentist. I think Howard could care less about what the outside world thinks of it. Scores are not everything in this world.
vaio said:
i doubt it.. they probably have preference for other minorities.. (asians aren't considered minorities anymore)
