Barron's Guide to Medical and Dental Schools [Paperback]

Saul Wischnitzer (Author), Edith Wischnitzer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1997 | Series: Barron's Guide to Medical and Dental Schools

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. 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. Additional features include a model Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) and an extensive sampling of questions from recent Dental College Admission Tests (DAT). Answers and explanations are given for all questions so candidates can analyze personal strengths and weaknesses and focus future study efforts. A brand new extra included with this edition is a CD-ROM for Windows. It features a questionnaire for medical school candidates to complete. Their response will generate personalized recommendations listing the schools where they stand the best chance of acceptance. In print for many years with regular updatings, this book is one of the most highly regarded in its field.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 612 pages
• Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Inc; 8 Sub edition (June 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812097882
• ISBN-13: 978-0812097887
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 7.8 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,685,172 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars a very good broad general overview with some mistakes, October 31, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Barron's Guide to Medical and Dental Schools (Paperback)

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 can be attributed to the book's EXTREME outdatedness in terms of osteopathy. However, it is the only book I've found that is so comprehensive in terms of giving the average pre-med a decent glimpse of everything there is out there regarding the medical field and medical education.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Inaccurate data or out of date materials., August 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Barron's Guide to Medical and Dental Schools (Paperback)

If you are looking for Dental school information this book is inaccurate. Most of the material is out of date. It does not contain very much information about each school. It is a waste of your money.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars OK for Medical Schools but avoid for dental schools!, April 3, 2004

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Albert Ridge (Orange County, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Barron's Guide to Medical and Dental Schools with CDROM (Barron's Guide to Medical & Dental Schools) (Paperback)

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.