Hi there, I’m a junior in highschool and I’m trying to plan out my college route. As of now, my goal is to become a dentist. However, I am also interested in culinary arts (this is my plan b). Is there a good university with a culinary arts major and a pre-dental program (If I don’t get into dental school, I’ll at least have a major that I can utilize)? I’ve been searching and searching but I haven’t come up with anything. Is there a university with these programs?
You can major in any subject that you like and provided you complete the pre-dent requirements, you can apply to dental school. If you major in culinary arts, you will need to find a way to squeeze the extra science courses into your schedule, but it won’t be impossible if you study at a college or university that isn’t solely specialized in culinary arts.
@happymomof1, hardly any non-specialized culinary schools teach cooking, though. . .
The serious culinary schools are specialized ones and generally not part of a 4 year college that would offer pre-dental classes. I’m not sure that your Plan A and Plan B would work well together. But keep researching I guess.
[Marist College](http://www.marist.edu/registrar/catalog/pdfs/undergrad0809/academservices.pdf) has a cross-registration program with the Culinary Institute of America. Students can take traditional courses at Marist and a course or 2/semester (soph-senior year) at the Culinary. If you Google the AND cross-registration, you should find which schools have similar programs.
That does not sound like a good approach to me, something is off about that combo, I suppose just the point that culinary arts is not an academic field, but vocational. Be careful and investigate more. But you might look at Johnson & Wales at least the campus in RI has traditional bio major as well as culinary arts. I think most students there take a business major, hotel admin, food service admin or culinary degree, but they do have more.
Many community colleges have culinary arts. You could start there and move to the 4 year college to get your premeds done.
I think BrownParent has a point. It’s one thing to take courses because they interest you, but a backup in case you don’t get into dental school shouldn’t be a specialized major that you can only get by attending a special (expensive) school. Johnson and Wales seems like a better route for what you want to do.
Drexel, Indiana U - Pennsylvania
http://www.paulsmiths.edu/academics/programs
Both culinary programs and bioscience programs, so it might be possible to cobble together what you need.