APPLYING TO DENTAL SCHOOL 2012

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7 Basics for Applying

1. Apply for DENTPIN2. Take the DAT3. Sign up for AADSAS4. Fill out your application5. Writing your Personal Statement6. Submitting your LOEs7. Submitting your Transcripts

Step 1Register for a DENTPIN

http://www.ada.org/1225.aspx

Step 2Take the DAT

http://www.ada.org/dat.aspx

Step 3Sign up for AADSAS

https://portal.aadsasweb.org/

Step 4Fill out your application

Step 4Fill out your application

7 Parts:1. Applicant Information2. Education3. Professional Experience4. Personal Statement5. Letters of Evaluation (LOEs)6. Release Statement7. Dental School Designations

Fill out your applicationPart 1

Applicant Information

Biographic InformationAddress, Ethnicity, Place of Birth, etc.

Parent and Family Background Information

Manual dexterity, hand-eye coordination, dentist in family, violation of laws, languages, etc.

Disadvantage Status

Fill out your applicationPart 2

Education

High School Information (no transcripts) Colleges Attended

All undergraduate, graduate and professional schools you have attended or plan to attend (with transcripts)

CourseworkALL coursework completed exactly as it

appears on your transcript DAT Scores

Fill out your applicationPart 3

Professional Experience

Academic Enrichment Programs Awards, Honors and Scholarships (5 max) Dentistry/Shadowing Experience (10 max) Extracurricular, Volunteering, and Community

Service (10 max) Research Experience (5 max) Work Experience (5 max)

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Dentistry/Shadowing Experience

Need to include:Name of supervisorPosition TitleType of Dentistry ObservedBrief description of activitiesTotal Number of HoursPosition type (Paid, volunteer, shadowing, other)Start Month/YearEnd Month/Year

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Extracurricular/Volunteer/Service

Need to include:Name of OrganizationPosition TitleBrief description of activitiesAverage Weekly HoursTotal Number of HoursStart Month/YearEnd Month/Year

O, remember, remember not to misrepresent your mission. Only include hours you actually spent in community service.

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Research

Need to include:Principal InvestigatorLocation of Research ProjectPosition TitleBrief Description of activitiesTotal Number of HoursPosition type (Volunteer, Academic Credit, Paid)Start Month/YearEnd Month/ Year

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Work Experience

Need to include:Name of EmployerPosition TitleCityStateBrief DescriptionTotal Number of HoursStart Month/YearEnd Month/Year

Fill out your applicationPart 3

Professional Experience

This section will probably take the most amount of time aside from your Personal Statement. Make sure to start early so this section won’t hold you up. It is best to keep track as you go along. For help with this, see the Professional Experience Excel Spreadsheet on our website.

Fill out your applicationParts 4-7

Part 4- Personal Statement (coming up) Part 5- LOEs (coming up) Part 6- Release Statements

Application Certification○ You certify that all the information in your application is

correctAdvisor Release Statement

○ You can give or deny permission for your Pre-Health Advisor to see your DAT scores and Dental School acceptances.

Part 7- Dental School DesignationsSelect the Dental Schools you want your application sent

to

Step 5Writing your Personal Statement

Advice:Start early (6 months to a year ahead of

time). Writing a Personal Statement takes a lot of time.

Have as many people read it as you can.Use stories to tell about yourself (if a picture

is worth a thousand words, a story can tell a thousand traits).

Avoid listing things, especially things that are included in other parts of your application.

Stick to the word limit (4,500 characters including spaces)

Step 5Writing your Personal Statement

Resources:The Writing Center on campusThe Career Prep Services at the main ADCThe PowerPoints and examples on our

website/I-Learn (coming soon)Brother Cameron’s presentation on I-Learn

(coming soon)

Step 6Letters of Evaluation

LOE ServiceBYU-Idaho offers a LOE service to help you

with your letters. Sister Krumblis takes care of your letters and informs you when you have received one. She is also the one who uploads your letters to AADSAS. She will keep it on file for up to 5 years. It is your responsibility to tell her when and what letters to upload. Make sure not to wait until the last minute.

Step 6Letters of Evaluation

LOE Service InstructionsVisit the LOE Service page on the

Health Professions WebsiteDownload and fill out the Evaluator FormGive the form to your evaluator and ask

them to turn in the form with their letterIn the AADSAS LOE section, enter in Haley

Krumblis’ information and designate that a committee letter will be uploaded

Email Sis Krumblis and tell her which letters you want uploaded

Step 6Letters of Evaluation

LOE Service FormYour CAS ID is your AADSAS Application ID

and it can be found in the top right corner of any section of your application○ If you do not have your AADSAS ID when you

give the form to your evaluator, leave it blank, but make sure to include it in your email to Sis Krumblis when she uploads them

Do not worry about the “Letter CAS ID”When you fill out the form, make sure to sign

the “Declaration of Confidentiality”○ Note: Most schools will not accept letters if they

know you have seen them

Step 6Letters of Evaluation

LOE Advice:Give plenty of time for your evaluator to

write your letter. About a month is recommended

Provide your evaluator with a packet of information to aid them in their letter○ Ex: Provide them with an unofficial transcript,

a résumé, or your Personal StatementThe most important quality in a letter is that

it is personal

Step 7Transcripts

Transcript Matching FormThe Colleges Attended section allows you to

print Transcript matching Forms. AADSAS requires that you print a Transcript Matching Form for each transcript being requested. Your official transcript must have a Transcript Matching Form attached to it when it is sent into AADSAS.

Step 7Transcripts

Transcript RequestsTo request an official transcript from the

school, visit http://www2.byui.edu/RegistrarsOffice/TranscriptRequest.htm and fill out the Transcript Request Form. Take that form and the Transcript Matching form from AADSAS to Kimball 190. BYU-I will send it out for free.

Cost to Apply For the 2011-2012 Application Cycle, the

base fee for using the AADSAS Application System was $235 (which included one school) and $75 for each additional school. We cannot know for sure if these costs have stayed the same or if they have increased until AADSAS opens again.

Cost to Apply

Where to go…? Choosing a dental school is not always

easy. There are a number of different things to take into account when trying to choose where to apply. Things to look at are:

Tuition Equipment costs Residency Length of program Scholarships offered.

Where to go…? Not only should you take into

consideration the cost of the program and the means by which you will pay for it, but also:

Location The school's philosophy and teaching

style Instructor to student ratio Focus of the program (clinical,

research, etc)

Where to go…? The search for a dental school can be

a lengthy process, but the best way to get a feel for what you like in a dental school is to research each school. You can go to their website, talk with those dentists you have shadowed to see what they liked about the school they attended, contact the admissions committee or even tour their campus.

Questions?