Barron's Guide to Medical and Dental Schools
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (591 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812097882 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 612 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Answers and explanations are given for all questions so candidates can analyze personal strengths and weaknesses and focus future study efforts. Additional features include a model Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) and an extensive sampling of questions from recent Dental College Admission Tests (DAT). Their response will generate personalized recommendations listing the schools where they stand the best chance of acceptance. The newly updated edition of this complete career guidance manual and school directory presents profiles of all accredited medical, dental, and osteopathic schools in the United States and Canada. A brand new extra included with this edition is a CD-ROM for Windows. School descriptions and accompanying charts cite admission requirements, course requirements, selection criteria, application filing deadlines, tuition and fees, average class size, percentage of men and women students, and much more. Advice on getting through the admission process includes many typical interview questions, sample admission essays, and information on coping with the lengthy admission forms typically required by medical and dental schools. In print for many years with regular updatings, this book is one of the most highly regarded in its field.. It features a questionnaire for medical school candidates to complete
a very good broad general overview with some mistakes This book is great in terms of giving stats on allopathic schools and information about types of medicine and the MCAT. I feel like maybe too much was being attempted. I don't know about the dental school info., but as for the osteopathic medical section, there are lots of mistakes regarding class sizes (more than once the entire school's population was given as the first year population) and there is very little information, in general, given for each school. And one more thing: there are now 19 osteo schools in the US (not 17) and the application process for each begins with the AACOMAS application. I guess these incorrect details ca. Albert Ridge said OK for Medical Schools but avoid for dental schools!. If you're applying to medical school, this book would serve you well. For dental schools. it's another story. I wouldn't buy this book again if I were applying to dental school. Go to predentalinfo.com if you want the meat and potatoes of how to sort through dental schools and actually get accepted. Cheers, Jason.. "A comprehensive review of requirements and statistics" A Customer This book explored the required undergraduate coursework along with dental and medical school admission statistical material, but showed no knowledge about the MCAT/DAT and essay writing, which are key in medical/dental school admissions.