Pre-Dental Resources

Pacific ASDA’s Pre-Dental Events

Pacific ASDA often holds Pre-Dental Day to provide pre-dental students with a chance at hands-on experiments, mock interviews, networking, and a tour of the Dugoni School of Dentistry. Current dental students volunteer to share their knowledge and experiences with all attendees.

Pacific ASDA also started a mentoring program called Toothbuds. Current dental students and prospective applicants/dental students are paired up as mentor and mentee! Mentors can help mentees in multiple capacities, including revising personal statements and providing inside information on what they wish they knew during the application process, how they chose which school to attend, as well as anything they would have done differently. Applications open sporadically.

For more information about Pre-Dental Day or Toothbuds, contact Pacific ASDA Pre-Dental Committee co-chairs Sharynne Alfonso at s_alfonso1@u.pacific.edu or Mahfam Golshan at m_golshan@u.pacific.edu.

Join Pre-Dental ASDA

Pre-Dental ASDA is open to all undergraduate and high school students, as well as any individual hoping to pursue dentistry, including international dentists. U.S. residence is required. This is not a branch of Pacific ASDA, but of National ASDA.

Benefits

• Education about issues that will impact you as both a pre-dental and dental student

• Interactive experiences with dental students and dental professionals at national events

• Early involvement in organized dentistry

• Access to ASDA’s “Getting into Dental School” Guide

• Access to ASDA’s pre-dental journal, “The Polished Predental”

• Tips and tricks for applying to dental school, including information about letters of recommendations and writing the personal statement

Membership runs for a full calendar year from Jan 1st to Dec 31st). Join for $71 annually here.