Year off?

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How do you guys feel about taking a year off after graduating college instead of applying after junior year and starting dental school right after your senior year?

Does this break affect your chances of admission? By taking a year off I feel that I will be able to prepare more/better for the DAT and relax before presumably four very tough years.
 
Slimfast said:
How do you guys feel about taking a year off after graduating college instead of applying after junior year and starting dental school right after your senior year?

Does this break affect your chances of admission? By taking a year off I feel that I will be able to prepare more/better for the DAT and relax before presumably four very tough years.
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This is actually pretty common for Harvard pre-meds. They take 2 years off to do something else, usually Teach for America. Med school admissions see it as a move towards maturity.
 
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