Hello fellow pre-dents!
currently a pharmacy student graduating 2020 and hoping to go straight into dental school that year.
Grad/professional GPA: 3.6 (likely to go up. Performing very well again this semester)
Undergrad cGPA: 3.4
Total cGPA (grad + undergrad) likely to be around upper 3.5x
Undergrad sGPA: 3.2 ((( [this is with all prereqs except physics 2. Ive even taken MOST of the upper level courses that dental schools recommend even in my first and second year of pharm school (a&p, immunology, biochem, microbiology, genetics, genomics, etc)] & even upper level math. I honestly will prob lay low and take some easy science courses to boost my sGPA to at least a 3.4 so that the rest of my app actually gets looked at.
I havent taken DAT yet but am currently using DAT/Math destroyer and Cliffs AP bio to study every other week until i take it in Nov or Dec. (aiming for 21+)
Gonna have at least 100 hours shadowing once app cycle starts back up. Over 200 hours of service learning/volunteering - exec of an org in pharm dedicated to serving the underserved (good thing for dentistry), exec of 3 other orgs.
Already have 2 professors that will write my LORs (both PhDs). Hoping i can get an LOR from a specialist but we’ll see.
Manual dexterity: pharmaceutical sterile (IVs, chemo, etc) and nonsterile compounding - even got an advanced certificate for it. (May help my app? I hope)
My questions for you all & those who are currently or already going/went thru the process:
1. Do you think my pharmD will help my app even with my sGPA (ugh im embarrassed)? Since ive shown to do well with managing didactic courses with clinicals and being involved w/ orgs...
2. Should i go on and take the easy science courses to boost my sGPA? (I know most admissions for these professional schools is really a number game before they even glance at your app)
3. What else could boost my app? Open to anything.
P.S. switching to dentistry because realized i dont enjoy pharmacy as much as i thought i did and only enjoy the creativity of it (compounding) which only takes up 5% of what we do. Dentistry allows me to put my creativity to use while making patients smile in a patient-centered environment 100% of the time. <3
currently a pharmacy student graduating 2020 and hoping to go straight into dental school that year.
Grad/professional GPA: 3.6 (likely to go up. Performing very well again this semester)
Undergrad cGPA: 3.4
Total cGPA (grad + undergrad) likely to be around upper 3.5x
Undergrad sGPA: 3.2 ((( [this is with all prereqs except physics 2. Ive even taken MOST of the upper level courses that dental schools recommend even in my first and second year of pharm school (a&p, immunology, biochem, microbiology, genetics, genomics, etc)] & even upper level math. I honestly will prob lay low and take some easy science courses to boost my sGPA to at least a 3.4 so that the rest of my app actually gets looked at.
I havent taken DAT yet but am currently using DAT/Math destroyer and Cliffs AP bio to study every other week until i take it in Nov or Dec. (aiming for 21+)
Gonna have at least 100 hours shadowing once app cycle starts back up. Over 200 hours of service learning/volunteering - exec of an org in pharm dedicated to serving the underserved (good thing for dentistry), exec of 3 other orgs.
Already have 2 professors that will write my LORs (both PhDs). Hoping i can get an LOR from a specialist but we’ll see.
Manual dexterity: pharmaceutical sterile (IVs, chemo, etc) and nonsterile compounding - even got an advanced certificate for it. (May help my app? I hope)
My questions for you all & those who are currently or already going/went thru the process:
1. Do you think my pharmD will help my app even with my sGPA (ugh im embarrassed)? Since ive shown to do well with managing didactic courses with clinicals and being involved w/ orgs...
2. Should i go on and take the easy science courses to boost my sGPA? (I know most admissions for these professional schools is really a number game before they even glance at your app)
3. What else could boost my app? Open to anything.
P.S. switching to dentistry because realized i dont enjoy pharmacy as much as i thought i did and only enjoy the creativity of it (compounding) which only takes up 5% of what we do. Dentistry allows me to put my creativity to use while making patients smile in a patient-centered environment 100% of the time. <3