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Rigor & Work Ethic

Dental school is what you make of it. These test whether you'll do the unglamorous hours nobody assigns you.

• Dental school is largely what you make of it. The students who come out genuinely good are the ones in the sim lab at nine at night, on their own time, drilling the same prep over and over. Are you prepared to do that?Whether you'll do unassigned work. This is the honest description of how…
• Most of our students were at the top of their college class. Here, half of them will be below average for the first time in their lives. How will you handle that?Ego resilience. This is a well-documented shock in professional school and a…
• How do you respond when you put in the work and the result still isn't good enough?Persistence past the point where effort stops paying off — which describes…
• Dental school is equal parts memorizing an enormous amount of material and repeating a physical skill until it's right. Which of those do you find harder?Self-knowledge about how you learn, and whether you've thought about the two…