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Nov 24, 2024
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2010-2011 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Pre-Dental - Minor
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The pre-dental minor prepares students who are interested in applying to dental school. Most dental schools require a strong undergraduate background in the sciences as well as substantial clinical experience. In addition to academic excellence at the undergraduate institutions, many dental schools include additional criteria such as community service, extracurricular activities, pre-dental experience, and research in their evaluation of potential candidates. Pre-dental students must maintain a minimum GPA of 3.4 and perform a minimum of 160 hours of community/pre-dental clinical service. Interested students should contact the chief health care professions advisor, B.W. Witz, Ph.D., to develop an appropriate course of study for their four years of college.
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Required Courses for Pre-Dental - Minor
The Nazareth College Pre-Dental Medicine Program
was structured using a compilation of requirements listed by dental schools at
the following institutions: SUNY Stonybrook, SUNY Buffalo,
University of
Pennsylvania,
and
Case
Western Reserve
University.
The following courses (52 credit hours) are required for a Pre-Dental minor. Elective Courses for Pre-Dental - Minor
In addition to the required 52 credit hours, the
following courses are highly recommended for Pre-Dental minor students:
Additional Information
Students wishing to apply to Dental School
must do so through the American Association of Dental Schools Application
Service (AADSAS) and take the Dental Admissions Test (DAT), typically no later
than the October before the year the student intends to matriculate in dental
school. The AADSAS reports that the average undergraduate GPA of enrollees in
U.S.
dental schools in 1998 was 3.33; the average DAT score of this class was 18.2.
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