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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

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.

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.

This book is just a waste. It is old and outdated. Just go to SDN for any info you need to apply to dental school.

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.

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.

I was hoping for something with a little more insight into dentistry, with more practical advice on how to get into a dental school, with more ideas of how to prepare now as a pre-dental student. It was useful in some aspects of different fields of dentistry and gave me a better idea of the DAT, which I dont know much about because it's still a good year off. This book is useful if have no idea about going into dentistry or on the fence and want to know more.

I read this book cover to cover. It has all of the basic information that one could already think of when applying to dental school like take the DAT, study hard, do well in school, volunteer at a dentists office, etc, etc. I like to read so I've bought quite a few book on getting into dental school. A great read this is more current with some real life tips that I actually used is a book by Dr. Kanani. I can't find it on amazon so do a search in google for "ultimate dental school guide" without the quotes and you should find it. Good luck to everyone. I'm going to Columbia next year!

Having only minimum knowledge of exactly what one needs to do to get into dental school, I found this guide a tremendous help and extremely easy to follow. The info that Dr. Kim has given in this guide can be found elsewhere, but why do time consuming searching when he has included it all here? I highly recommend this book. It won't leave you asking questions later.

My wife is finishing her prerequisites for Dentistry and for her birthday I purchased her just about every 5-Star book that had anything to do with Dentistry. This one she could not put down and it was written in a way that guides, explains, and sets expectations. Highly recomended per her, and she's a scientist!