Thinking about becoming Dental
Hello,
I recently graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a degree in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Since highschool I always knew that I wanted to go into dental, however, I lost contact with my parents due to some abuse and family issues. Thus, I picked a major that really wasn’t related to dental or isn’t really correlated with dental but had strong job opportunities after college which could buy me the time and freedom to then work towards my dental dreams. During college, I was unable to really volunteer or anything and really was only able to focus on the chemical engineering side of things (so 3 years research, 1 publication, 1 patent, Saudi Arabia study abroad and Aramco internship in Saudi Arabia and part time retail jobs throughout college). I did this because I knew I wanted to be financially stable through and after college. Now that I have a job lined up, I want to start volunteering and shadowing at a dentists office. I’m currently 21. I graduated from Tech with a 3.98 GPA (had one B).
I wanted to ask about how to obtain shadowing/clinical experience and are their any dentist offices that work during the weekends? Seeing how I will have my engineering job, I’m hoping I can find something for the weekends! Any advice on this? Also, what kind of DAT score should I aim for to make me a competitive applicant for the average dental school? There seems to be a lot of discourse and conflicting advice on that?
Thank you!