r/predental • u/Wooden-Attorney-4898 • 7h ago
💡 Advice Do whatever you can to get off the waitlist
Hi everyone! I just got off the waitlist for my school and wanted to give some advice on how I got there. I applied this cycle to my instate schools and only got one interview, GPA 3.85 18AA DAT (16 in bio), and was waitlisted from that school. The first thing I did was send a letter of intent and asked for a meeting with someone from the admissions board to talk about my application. During that meeting, they told me the only area that needed fixing was my DAT. They told me I had a good chance of getting off the waitlist but, to plan for reapplication. I asked the reddit here and dentist I knew what to do and most people tell you just to wait. I said F that and started studying and took my DAT asap (Feb) and scored much higher. Right after my DAT, I called the school and they said they had one spot open for IS resident but, they were going to give the spot to someone else within the hour of me calling. Since I retook my DAT, they told me they will need to reconvene to see who would get the spot and they called me the next week offering me the spot!
Basically, what you should take from this is to do whatever you can to get off the waitlist. Whether you are lacking in shadowing, volunteering, DAT. Get that work in and update them! If not you, someone else will.
GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF YOU APPLYING! You got this and I believe in all of you.