1. Applying to Dental School 2012 Start Fall 2013

2. 7 Basics for Applying Apply for DENTPIN Take the DAT
Sign up for AADSAS
Fill out your application
Writing your Personal Statement
Submitting your LOEs
Submitting your Transcripts

3. Step 1 Register for a DENTPIN http://www.ada.org/1225.aspx

4. Step 2 Take the DAT http://www.ada.org/dat.aspx

5. Step 3 Sign up for AADSAS https://portal.aadsasweb.org/

6. Step 4 Fill out your application

7. Step 4 Fill out your application
7 Parts:
Applicant Information
Education
Professional Experience
Personal Statement
Letters of Evaluation (LOEs)
Release Statement
Dental School Designations

8. Fill out your application Part 1 Applicant Information
Biographic Information
Address, 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

9. Fill out your application Part 2 Education
High School Information (no transcripts)
Colleges Attended
All undergraduate, graduate and professional schools you have attended or plan to attend (with transcripts)
Coursework
ALL coursework completed exactly as it appears on your transcript
DAT Scores

10. Fill out your application Part 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)

11. Fill out your application Part 3 Dentistry/Shadowing Experience
Need to include:
Name of supervisor
Position Title
Type of Dentistry Observed
Brief description of activities
Total Number of Hours
Position type (Paid, volunteer, shadowing, other)
Start Month/Year
End Month/Year

12. Fill out your application Part 3 Extracurricular/Volunteer/Service
Need to include:
Name of Organization
Position Title
Brief description of activities
Average Weekly Hours
Total Number of Hours
Start Month/Year
End Month/Year
O, remember, remember not to misrepresent your mission. Only include hours you actually spent in community service.

13. Fill out your application Part 3 Research
Need to include:
Principal Investigator
Location of Research Project
Position Title
Brief Description of activities
Total Number of Hours
Position type (Volunteer, Academic Credit, Paid)
Start Month/Year
End Month/ Year

14. Fill out your application Part 3 Work Experience
Need to include:
Name of Employer
Position Title
City
State
Brief Description
Total Number of Hours
Start Month/Year
End Month/Year

15. Fill out your application Part 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.

16. Fill out your application Parts 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 correct
Advisor 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 Designations
Select the Dental Schools you want your application sent to

17. Step 5 Writing 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)

18. Step 5 Writing your Personal Statement
Resources:
The Writing Center on campus
The Career Prep Services at the main ADC
The PowerPoints and examples on our website/I-Learn (coming soon)
Brother Cameron’s presentation on I-Learn (coming soon)

19. Step 6 Letters of Evaluation
LOE Service
BYU-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.

20. Step 6 Letters of Evaluation
LOE Service Instructions
Visit the LOE Service page on the Health Professions Website
Download and fill out the Evaluator Form
Give the form to your evaluator and ask them to turn in the form with their letter
In the AADSAS LOE section, enter in Haley Krumblis’ information and designate that a committee letter will be uploaded
Sis Krumblis and tell her which letters you want uploaded

21. Step 6 Letters of Evaluation
LOE Service Form
Your 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 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

22. Step 6 Letters 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 Statement
The most important quality in a letter is that it is personal

23. Step 7 Transcripts Transcript Matching Form
The 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.

24. Step 7 Transcripts Transcript Requests
To request an official transcript from the school, visit 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.

25. Cost to Apply
For the 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.

26. Cost to Apply

27. 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.

28. 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)

29. 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.

30. Questions?