City:
Dallas
State:
Texas
Category:
Summer
Type:
Dental
SPEP Collegiate II is a six-week program which provides college and post-college students an opportunity to:
- prepare for and successfully take the DAT,
- strengthen their academic science background,
- learn more about the field of dental medicine,
- broaden their interest in biomedical and clinical sciences,
- learn useful study patterns for professional study,
- increase their competitiveness for admission to dental school, and
- enhance their success once admitted to dental school.
Eligibility:
- Have dentistry as their career choice
- Be a U.S. citizen or a permanent resident (preference will be given to residents of the State of Texas)
- Have completed 60 semester hours of college by the end of the Spring Semester, 2020
- Have completed 8 hours of general chemistry, 8 hours of biology, and 8 hours of organic chemistry by the end of the Spring Semester, 2020
- Provide all transcripts from colleges/universities attended
- Have a grade point average of 2.75 or higher
- Submit an online application, including a one-page essay stating how SPEP Collegiate II will benefit the applicant’s pursuit of dentistry as a career
- Submit one letter of recommendation from the applicant’s Pre- Health Advisor (or Advisory Committee) or two letters of recommendation from science professors from courses taken
- Complete a phone interview with Program staff
- Sign a contract, agreeing to participate in all required Program activities
- Be a member of a dentally-underserved population and/or be from a *disadvantaged background. Demonstrate a strong potential of working with underserved populations or in communities with limited access to dental health care.
- An *academically disadvantaged individual is one who comes from an environment that has inhibited the individual from obtaining the knowledge, skill and ability to enroll in and graduate from a health professions school. For the purpose of this program, an applicant is considered academically disadvantaged if he or she is or will be a first generation college graduate to earn a baccalaureate degree in his or her family. An applicant is also considered academically disadvantaged if he or she meets at least 4 of the following criteria:
- English is not the applicant’s primary language
- Overcame or is experiencing extreme hardship
- From a single parent family
- Non-traditional student (including older age)
- Significant employment while attending school
- Attended a low-performing high school
- Resident of a financially poor school district
- Resident of a county designated as underserved by health professionals
- Resident of a lowest 10% per capita income county
- Other disadvantaged factor(s) identified by the applicant
Duration:
6 weeks
Deadline:
Late January