UCLA Dental School

Applying to College
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<p>I plan on applying here later in my years:</p>

<p>however, what does this all mean?</p>

<p>Requirements/Pre-requisites for Admission</p>

<li><p>Course/Curriculum Requirements</p>

<p># of years: Formal minimum 3; majority have 4

of units: 90 semester units or 135 quarter units</p>

<ul>
<li>Limitations on accredited community college course work: only 70 semester or 105 quarter units will be accepted.
**Online classes for web-based education are not accepted.</li>
</ul>

<p>Required courses with One (1) year of lab (2 sem/3 qtr)
Semester hours Quarter hours
Inorganic/General Chemistry 8 12
Organic Chemistry 6 8
Physics 8 12
Biology 8 12</p>

<p>Other required courses: No lab required
English Composition 6 8
Introductory Psychology 3 4
Biochemistry 3 4</p>

<p>Other recommended courses:</p>

<p>Choose from among histology, physiology, human or comparative anatomy, social sciences, microbiology, communication, business, composition, technical writing, fine arts, philosophy, engineering and classics.</p></li>
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<p><a href=“http://uclasod.dent.ucla.edu/admissions/index.asp?id=345#requirements[/url]”>http://uclasod.dent.ucla.edu/admissions/index.asp?id=345#requirements</a></p>

<p>I am highly confused. What does this mean? What if my school doesn’t offer a dental program? Meaning, it has no dental school and no pre-dent as a major. Can I just major in chemistry and make my way through to a dental school?</p>

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<p>You do not need to worry about this yet.</p>

<p>You can major in anything as long as you finish required courses.</p>

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<p>What does that mean...what is a semester unit? Will a major in chem fufill that?</p>

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<p>????bump???</p>

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<p>Dental schools all have requirements.</p>

<p>You fulfill those requirements by taking appropriate courses.</p>

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<p>some colleges are on the semester system, others on the quarter system. If you take a year-long course at a semester school you will typically take 2 semesters of the class at 4 units per class, total of 8 semester units. Take the same class at a quarter-system school and you take 3 classes of 4 units apiece, total of 12 quarter units.</p>

<p>BTW there is no such thing as "pre-dental", "pre-medical", "pre-law" etc as majors.</p>

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<p>Will majoring in chem sufficiently match those requirements?</p>

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<p>gee, I don't know. Why don't you go to the websites of the colleges you are considering, see what the requirements are for a major in Chem, and decide for yourself?</p>