Why do YOU want to be a dentist?

[4X4MD]

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Answer it like your at an interview.

Im trying to think about whether I should embellish a little bit. I know many people have some problems with this, but honestly, I want to go to Dental School for many practical reasons:

1) It is based in the sciences, which is where my interests lie.
2) It allows one to combine art (I enjoy working with my hands) and creativity along with science and health care.
3) It is an opportunity to be a business owner.
4) It provides job security/stability.
5) It provides financial security/stability.
6) It allows for a lifestyle that I would enjoy.
7) It allows me to be a health care professional, but at the same time, it allows me to participate in other things I am interested in (politics, hunting, fishing, sports, family, business outside of dentistry, etc)

Of course, I would embellish during the interview, but you get the idea.

 

[redchesus]

Basically pick a point that they want to hear that closest resembles your views and extrapolate on that with your own experiences. Everyone embellishes a little (seriously, if someone said they wanted to be a dentist when they were 10 I would call BS, no kid wanted to a dentist... they all wanted to be DINOSAUR TRAINERS).

If you want to touch on the lifestyle/money part of it, do it carefully

 

[Chrono]

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[Tiankum]

because I enjoy it...that's all you have to say

 

[Chrono]

because I enjoy it...that's all you have to say

This is a great reason - but what do you say when they ask "well you've never done it, how do you know you'll love it"

 

[ChubbyBaby]

4) It provides job security/stability.
5) It provides financial security/stability.
6) It allows for a lifestyle that I would enjoy.
7) It allows me to be a health care professional, but at the same time, it allows me to participate in other things I am interested in (politics, hunting, fishing, sports, family, business outside of dentistry, etc)

I wouldn't talk about money/lifestyle too much if asked to explain your desire to enter dentistry.

 

[dentalWorks]

I wouldn't talk about money/lifestyle too much if asked to explain your desire to enter dentistry.

Totally agree, don't bring up money / lifestyle.... cause its usually the elephant in the room. Don't need to bring it up.

abour your 2nd point: "It allows one to combine art (I enjoy working with my hands) and creativity along with science and health care"

Be ready to answer specific questions about how you have used art in the past? are you an artist? how many times have you used your hands in the past? questions like that. Cause if you can't give them specific answers, theyr gonna know ur full of it.

 

[Predoctalk]

I find this to be the most irrelevant question ever. We have all worked hard to be sitting in that room. This is a question I feel they always receive a similar answer to anyway. As mentioned by an above poster there are only so many things you cn say without sounding insincere. Bringing up money may not be the best idea, but it is definitely part of the honest truth. In addition, to say that one loves teeth is just strange. It's obviously a great career to us or we would not be working so hard to achieve a position in DS. When they ask that, say "why do you want to work at this DS and participate on the admissions committee?"

 

[TexasOMFS]

Because I LOVE science, always have since my first biology class in high school. And because Dentistry allows me to combine my love for biological science with my love for working with my hands, all while offering me the opportunities to own my own business, have daily contact with patients, serve my time helping others, and have financial security and a nice lifestyle to boot.