Learn about medical school admissions from Upgrade tutors who have been successful in getting into dental schools abroad.
Some schools require shadowing, and while it's important, it's not a requirement because it's a difficult activity to do at the high school level. If you don't have a dentist in your area, I've seen many students make up for it with other related medical or general service.
Also, each school has a minimum GPA, which will always be a minimum, and students who get in have much higher GPAs, like 3.97. If you've taken a lot of APs, sometimes you can get in with a 3.6, 3.7.
The question is what matters in EC, and I've seen students get in with common volunteer work, tutoring juniors, volunteering at a dog shelter, etc. I think they don't really care about sports, but they do care about volunteer work that helps others.
The most important thing is to understand the UK admissions system. All the portals you apply to are through UCAS, so it's important to know how competitive it is, what the academic test scores are, etc. Usually, people apply with their GCSEs, IBs, and A-levels, but I've seen a lot of people apply without researching the school itself, so I would emphasize the importance of researching before applying.
For medical schools in the UK, there are two types of interviews: Multiple Mini-Interviews and Panel Interviews.
In the Multiple Mini-Interview, you'll be interviewed by different people from different positions at each station, so the questions are very varied. There are also role-playing, crisis handling skills, graph analysis questions, and so on, so you can understand that they look at a variety of things across the board.
The Panel Interview is conducted by 2-3 doctors or professors from Oxford Cambridge who keep asking you questions like a normal interview.
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