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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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 Great for medical school but for dental school....., June 13, 2004
By "harvard08" (Atlanta, Georgia)
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Barrons is a great book for medical school applicants but doesn't offer too much in the way for dental school applicants. The information found is not organized and I wouldn't personally recommend it. Instead, buy Dr. Kanani's book on dental school admission at dentalschooladmission.com The information is more current, better organized, and theres much more useful information that will actually help you do well in studying for the DAT, but more importantly, in presenting a strong and compelling application that will get you a seat in dental school. It got me in!
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 OK for Medical Schools but avoid for dental schools!, April 03, 2004
By Albert Ridge (Orange County, California)
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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.
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 Not a bad job, April 11, 2000
By A customer
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I had inhibitions about buying this book due to the other reviews, but I've found it extremely helpful. There are plenty of stats regarding the MCATs, GPA and enrollment. Although the descriptions of the curriculae aren't as in depth as I had hoped, it's more than enough to form some initial opinions about the various schools.
2 of 3 people found the above review helpful.
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a very good broad general overview with some mistakes, October 31, 1999
By A customer
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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.
5 of 5 people found the above review helpful.
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 Inaccurate data or out of date materials., August 07, 1999
By A customer
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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.
6 of 7 people found the above review helpful.
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This book is an excellent source of medical schools., July 18, 1999
By A customer
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Barron's Guide to Medical and Dental Schools is an excellent source for pre-medical, dental, osteopathic students. The authors included prerequistites and admission requirements for most of the programs in the U.S. and Canada. It also offers limited information on foriegn medical schools. Some information is outdated and needs to be revised. Very reasonably priced.
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