I know they are very picky about people from out of state. I've heard of a few people going up for interviews since I had mine in September, but I'm not sure whats going on now.
Last year the avg GPA was around 3.4, and the DAT was 17 I think. From what I've heard, all of the out of state students they accepted last year had very high marks.
When I applied 2 years ago I was offered an interview in January as an out-of-stater (from Texas). My stats were 18/18/15 -- 3.91 sGPA, 3.83 cumGPA
I think you probably stand a good chance of being offered an interview, even if it's after December 1st.
Yea I'm from WV.
The average of all 51 accepted was 17DAT & 3.5GPA. I have a few friends that are attending there now, and they have all told me that the out of state students had high GPA/DAT scores. I'm just guessing that if 17/3.5 is the average, then there are probably quite a few instate students well under that to compensate for the out of state students that have a 20+DAT and 3.9+GPA. I've just always heard from many people that WVU prefers instate students from rural areas.
Like you said, 19 were out of state, but 9 of them had "ties to WV" so that just leaves 10 out of state spots really. Last year they interviewed around 150, and 82 of them were in state (out of 1400+ total applicants).
Here is some facts/figures for you:
http://www.hsc.wvu.edu/sod/Admissions/facts_figures.pdf
Makes me feel good that 4 are from Ohio, I guess?
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haha I would imagine so. Where in Ohio are you from? I live just across the Ohio river from Proctorville.
I'm sure none of you can answer this, but why do they have to deviate from the norm and require 3 "different" sciences LORs and one has to be from physics, right?
I just have two sciences and one from dentist, which is what is required by majority of dental schools.
So do I even stand a chance for an interview being out of state? I live in AZ Cum GPA, 3.42 Sci GPA, 3.3 DAT 19
I toured the school during the summer. It was hard to find as a first time visitor.
They only required me to have one LOR from the sciences. They wanted my other two to come from faculty from the dental hygiene program I graduated from.
On a side note, I don't think WVU sends out acceptance letters on Dec 1st. When I was there, they told me they would send out requests for a background check if they were still interested. They wouldn't say if that was a guarantee acceptance tho.
Well it's good that you have a really good chance to get in!! Is this the only school you applied to?
They only required me to have one LOR from the sciences. They wanted my other two to come from faculty from the dental hygiene program I graduated from.
So should I contact the school and ask them about my situation? I have a feeling that they will simply tell me to go find some LOR as they require.
Yea I'm sure that's exactly what happened. At the time of my interview they had only received 1 of my LORs so I know they don't look at them until afterwards.
Nope no interview.
