Pre-Dental - Minor

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. Although students in any undergraduate major may apply to dental school, in a typical year, most of students accepted to dental school programs complete undergraduate majors in the biological sciences (the percentage of undergraduates with majors in the biological sciences that enrolled in dental schools in 2009 outnumbered the average percentage of enrollees in all other disciplines combined by nearly a factor of 12). 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 3.0 and perform a minimum of 160 hours of community/pre-dental clinical service. Interested students should contact the Chief Health Care Professions Advisor, Stephen Tajc, Ph.D., to develop an appropriate course of study for their four years of college.