University of California Los Angeles School of Dentistry (2024)

What are your suggestions for the admissions office?

"N/A"More from this Member| Report Response

"None!"More from this Member| Report Response

"None"More from this Member| Report Response

"sandwiches were a bit hard"More from this Member| Report Response

"Maybe make the tour student-led rather than admissions-officer led?"More from this Member| Report Response

"I was so hungry after the interview. They should provide breakfast..."More from this Member| Report Response

"People are really nce at UCLA, but I was so starving during the interview!"More from this Member| Report Response

What is one of the specific questions they asked you (question 1)?

"They had already read my application and just wanted further information. They asked specific questions about my unique extracurriculars and also my answer to the essay."More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Why you?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"First question: Why dentistry? What got you interested?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Where do you see yourself practicing after you graduate from dental school?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Do you have any questions for me?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"About my school honor"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Questions about teaching/TA experience."More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"How did you like UCLA (undergrad)?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"no real questions.."More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"There were no real specific interview type questions. As others have said it was pretty open and conversational. I would say that my interviewer, who was one of the group practice administrators, did not really review my AADSAS application. The questions that came up were all based on the essay that I wrote at the start of the day. I wrote about my job as I'm a nontraditional applicant. In the essay I stated leadership was forced on me and she asked what I meant by that."More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"What do you do to relax?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Do you want to specialize?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"So, have you visited our dental school before (considering that I live close to school) my honest answer: NoWhat are the questions you have about our school? (Yes, this was the next question)"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"tell us about your research experience"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Tell me about yourself"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Why dentistry, and why not medicine? (Brothers are in medical school)"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Why dentistry?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"As you know, dental school is much different than undergrad. It takes a large time commitment. Have you had any time during school where you were really under a lot of pressure with school/work?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Which school did you get in?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"What did you do in the research project? What was your duties?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Which schools did you apply to?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Tell me about the most stressful quarter you had in college."More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"what do you do in your free time, when you are not studying?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Tell me why you want to be a dentist?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"You had excellent grades in high school, why did you decide to go to community college first?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"What is your favorite book?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Talk about urself. "More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Why UCLA?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"How did you become interested in dentistry?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Tell me about your family."More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Why should we choose you over other candidates?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Why not medicine?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Tell us about yourself. "More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"what do you see yourself in ten years?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Tell me about yourself...why do you have these certain goals"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"How does blah relate to dentistry."More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Standard questions: what got you interested in dentistry? "More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Tell me about yourself."More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"How does your research experience relate to your wanting to be a dentist?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

What was the most interesting question?

"How do you use technology for remote dental clinics?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Dental school requires you to be selfish. You need to succeed to put yourself in a position to do well later on and provide for your family. There will be times when you have to put yourself before your family during dental school. (Can you handle that? Are you willing to do that?) was implied from the statement."More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Dentistry is a very social career, what do you think about that?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"What have you learned from being a teacher?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Interesting is relative I guess. I thought it was interesting that her questions were not really questions that would be used to determine if I was an acceptable candidate but instead to see if I'd be willing to put up with being a dental student."More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"I was not born in the US, so I had some questions about how I grew up."More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

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"None"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"What's the biggest problem facing dentistry today?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Why did you decide to stop playing football when you got into college. I was a Pac-10 recruit in high school and decided to go academic but coached varsity football in my sophom*ore year of College. Didn't expect this but gave my reasoning for giving up."More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"tell me about yourself"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"What have you learned from your thesis?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"You took a class called ''Creativity and Knowledge.'' Tell us about that."More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"[after seeing that both my parents were dentists] so tell me about your parents' practice."More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"If you don't get into UCLA will you go to the out of state school that you got in?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Name some things you can do which can positively change dentistry and public awareness of dentistry"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Tell me about the most stressful quarter you had in college. "More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"In twenty or thirty years, what do you think will be the major issues facing dentistry? How do you propose to help resolve them? "More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Do you feel your academically prepared to handle UCLA's curriculum?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Why not vet?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Nothing really interesting."More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"N/A"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"How was the travel to Crater Lake, Oregon?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"no interesting questions - just the standard stuff"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Same as the difficult question... the entire 40 minutes was taken up by two questions that acted as a foundation for the entire "interview""More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Tell me about your most stressful semester as an undergrad."More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"How does my major relate to the field of dentistry?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Talk about the effect of HMOs on dentistry."More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Tell us about yourself."More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"about certain type of food... no details =)"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Where do you see yourself in 10 years"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"What did you think about USC?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"sizing of scrubs, lab coats, and gloves"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Well, it is not quite a question, but they size you for your lab coat and gloves."More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Do you really have a passion for dentistry?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Where do you see yourself in 5 years? 15 years?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Why didn't you go straight into dental school post-graduation?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"Asked me lots of questions about my family."More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too

"What time did you get here this morning?"More from this Member| Report Response| I was asked this question too