<p>HELLO,</p>
<p>can someone advise me how the pre-dental at Indiana University of Pennsylvania works? How is the school overall? Will Majoring in Natural Sciences and Mathematics help me get to dental school?</p>
<p>What are your stats?
IUP is a decent but not great directional. It’s good if you have a GPA around 2.8-3.2 and average test scores but don’t have enough money or interest to get into one of the many very good private colleges in PA/OH or a PSU or Pitt branch campus for a 2+2.
If you’re still looking for colleges: look into West Chester, Slippery Rock, the Pitt Branch campuses, Chatham in Pittsburgh, Washington&Jefferson, York, Juniata.</p>
<p>IUP’s pre-dentistry track is placed in the Natural Science program, so that’s what you would major in. I believe they also have an optional 3+4 arrangement with Temple’s dental school, which means that you do three years of undergraduate at IUP, and then get your bachelor’s after your first year of dental school. Some 3+4 programs are harder to get into than an applicant to the natural science program who intends to do the normal pace. And you’d have to apply to enter as a freshman.</p>
<p>Even if you don’t have interest the 3+4 accelerated program, the fact that it exists probably means that IUP is well set-up to advise and prepare applicants for dental school.</p>