The Pre-Dental Guide: a guide for successfully getting into dental school
WANTED: DENTAL SCHOOL APPLICANTS. The Pre-dental Guide is a comprehensive resource for those who wish to enter the field of dentistry. The purpose of this book is to provide pre-dental students with pertinent information about the various factors to consider when choosing and applying to dental school. Also, the major elements of the Dental Admission Test (DAT), and advice on how to take it, are explained in some detail. In addition, this book makes recommendations regarding the pre-dental r
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Review by Benjamin Britton for The Pre-Dental Guide: a guide for successfully getting into dental school
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Well, if you’re a serious pre-dent, you’d know there’s not much as far as pre-dental books go.
This book and a few others are the choices. You can find a lot of info online theres even an online forum called student doctor network (google studentdoctor its the 1st listing). Good for pre-anything medical.
Pros: It gives some of the ‘tricks’ to the DAT. Some good info that will save time and some very good strategies on what to look for and mistakes to avoid. The author states at the end of the book that he was in the 97th percentile for the DAT and helped administer and consult for the DAT after he was a dentist. So, some good info you won’t find elsewhere.
Cons:… well, this book sorely needs and edit or two. For being in the 97th percentile and a top scholar since highschool you’d think the author would remember his English classes and would’ve given this book a proofread. Not completely up to date on all the dental schools in America… I noted that it does not include the Arizona School of Dentistry.
There are some typo’s, some poor grammar, and some improper formatting in places… one example, a sentence is broken in half at the end of a paragraph, and the second half is indented and starts the next paragraph.
Overall… If you’re a predent, there isn’t much in the way of pre-den’t materials on the market. This is one of the best you have available, which isn’t saying much. What this book offers that makes it worth buying is the DAT info. Serious pre-dents should study for the MCAT and add a few DAT reviews for the perceptual ability section of the DAT.
If you’re willing to put up with the editing problems, you’ll gain some valuable info on the DAT. If this book had an edit or two, I’d probably give it 4 or 5 stars.
~BB
June 22nd, 2010 at 7:59 am
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Joseph S. Kim has obviously gone through the steps to get into Dental school. I found that this book was very informative and tells it like it is. The lists of what to studying for the DAT are on the money! I bought several other “help guides” and it was so clear that the Phd’s hadn’t gone thru the actual process where as Kim either has or he really did his homework. I really recommend this book if you are wanting to get a written guide that will help direct you.
June 22nd, 2010 at 8:19 am
Review by Wai Ling Chan for The Pre-Dental Guide: a guide for successfully getting into dental school
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It was helpful in terms of it has pretty much everything that you should know before you apply to dental school. Just use this book as a guide to plan and get some idea when you have no clue. It won’t give more than that. It gives some strategies for DAT but it’s not enough for sure to improve your DAT score. As I said earlier…just use this book as a guide.
June 22nd, 2010 at 9:06 am
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A reasonable book covering the basic aspects of applying to dental school. I’m not sure if it helped much as I found this information elsewhere to.
June 22nd, 2010 at 9:57 am
Review by Scott man for The Pre-Dental Guide: a guide for successfully getting into dental school
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I think that had I bought this book a year ago it would have been a better purchase for me but since I’m already set on being a dentist and just needed the study guides for the DAT, this book was just a good add-on with the price Amazon had. It is still useful for me but not near as much as it could be for students trying to decide if they would like to become a dentist.
June 22nd, 2010 at 10:25 am