jona814

I'm currently a High School Junior, do I have a chance in getting to the University of Pacific accelerated dental program?
*High School GPA : 3.8 weighted (3.5 Unweighted)
Taken courses such as AP Psychology and Physics and i'm planning on taking AP Biology, IB Math SL, and Chemistry next year.
*I already have 20 hours of community service and I'm planning on adding at least 40-100 hours this summer in my local library.
*I also successfully found a dentist that's going to let me job shadow him this summer and up until I get accepted into UoP's accelerated program.
*Activities/sports: Swimming for two years(I will swim next year), lacrosse (sophmore year, and I'm also going to continue it next year), investing club(last half of my sophmore year and a little of this year), computer science/ACE club(this year)
*I'm also the first generation of my family to go to college if that helps (I was born here and my parents are from South America)
*I am 100% sure that I want to become a dentist when I grow up, my brother in law is also going to get into this program (he's been working for the dentist im going to job shadow for a long time)
* I also got a weighed 4.1, 4.0, and 3.9 GPA for the past 3 quarters
... The downfall is that i got a 1330 on my SAT

chubach

Wrong sub-forum!

Trulyyours

Work hard and do better in the SAT!

sixstringsrocker

It seems due to daylight savings or some random error in system time, my reply to Lucative appeared before his/her post I was replying to.

@lucative

It's because this is a sub forum for international students from Nepal. Most students from Nepal don't have a good idea of the application process from the american student's point of view. For example, Nepal doesn't have a GPA system, the schools usually are on a percentage basis where scoring above 90% is virtually impossible. Our exams are at the end of the year and that's 100% of our score.
there is no calculation of "hours" of community service.
Very few students take AP, very very few and it's usually after you finish high school. High schools don't offer AP at all.
I've been to the US for 2 years and I still don't understand the weighted/UW gpa stuff.
Also, most students have never heard of the university of pacific, including me.
I personally don't want to give incorrect information.

lucative

I am very discouraged by the replies of the previous two posters. One post "wrong sub-forum" without helping to redirect person to the correct forum and the other person says "do better in the SAT". Wow great advice with so much thinking applied. So great help you guys are! NOT!! Here's my advice. Go to the UOP website and there they will have the targets for the students they are looking to admit. IMHO your stats are fine but you do have to get your SATs scores higher. For instance, UOP requests all their pre-pharm applicants to have a minimum GPA of 3.7 and a combined SAT math+CR score of 1350 with a minimum CR score of 630. Of course, the higher the better. To boost your SAT score, we found the best way was to take all the College Board Blue Book Tests you can find and try to understand why your wrong answers are not correct. I have two kids doing fine at UOP so I know what I am saying. One is finishing his PharmD and the other is pre-dental. Good Luck.