Dental Forums

So, under the advice of one of my friends who applied, but never got into medical school, I checked out one of the dental forums frequented by predentals and denstists alike. Its got great threads with a ton of information about the DAT, dental schools, and practicing. I spent quite a bit of time purusing the threads trying to find more direction for DAT studying.

There were some insightful points from some of the users. I even found a great excel chart detailing the organisms and their biological characteristics categorized by phylum. Now, I think this chart is great, but remember, I have never actually taking the DAT so I do not really have any prior knowledge to draw my opinion from. At least it was greatly organized?

In any event there was some great stuff, but one aspect really started to gnaw on me after a while: kids asking whether or not they will get into dental school. Since I do not want to be that guy and put a link to those, I will let it be. But, holy shit there were some boohoo sob stories. I really wanted to go and end their lives right there. I mean, they will not be getting into dental school, so what do they have to live for? Or, get this, one kid saying he has studied DAT Destroyer, I quote, 5! times and still has no success. Sorry kid, may be you need to consider something else.

On the way to a friends house, I called one of my med school friends and told him about what I read. He said that in addition to obsessively talking about all the ins and outs of getting into professional school, you here a "shitload" of complaining in those forums. I know all too well...