1. Why this school?
2. Would you offer to do free procedures on patients who could not afford them?
3. What are you going to do when you get D’s and F’s in your first year in Dental School?
4. Why dentistry?
5. Who has inspired you?
6. How do you manage your time?
7. How did you study for the DAT and for how long?
8. How was your school work affected by the events in your life?
9. If you caught someone cheating what would you do?
10. Any volunteer/extracurricular/leadership experiences?
11. Tell me about a difficult experience you encountered and how you resolved the situation.
12. Tell me about your parents’ journey here.
13. Tell me about yourself.
14. What are you looking for in a dental school?
15. Does a three-year program suit you well?
16. What do you see yourself doing after graduating from dental school?
17. How did you like undergrad?
18. What kind of community would you like to work in?
19. What have you done to demonstrate hand-skills?
20. What kind of activities do you do that require manual dexterity?
21. Did you ever consider going into medicine?  Why did you switch?
22. What are your future goals?
23. What are you proud of?
24. What is your weakest point?
25. What is the weakest point of your application?
26. Why should we select you over other candidates?
27. Do you see yourself living in San Francisco?  Why do you like this city?
28. What is your favorite book?
29. If you had endless amounts of money, how would you improve dental healthcare for the underprivileged?
30. Tell me about your experiences in the dental office.
31. How do you think you will fit in with the caliber of students here?
32. If you were to choose 3 careers what would they be?
33. Why would you choose dentistry between the three?
34. How do you cope with stress?
35. If you could read your evaluation letters, what would you hope they would say?
36. Describe some characteristics of your personality?  Something you need to work on?
37. How do you measure success?
38. You realize you’ll possibly be spending hours working in the limited space of someone’s mouth.  How do you feel about that?
39. How do you feel about your academic record?
40. Your GPA is excellent, do you consider yourself smart, hardworking or both?
41. If you could tell the admissions committee three things about yourself, what would they be?
42. What was the most significant moment of your life?
43. What was the worst moment of your life?
44. What one quality do you think is most important for a dentist to have?
45. What do you think dental school will be like?
46. Name one person that has influenced you the most and how.
47. What do you do in your spare time?
48. If there’s one thing that you would like me to remember about you, what would it be?
49. What can you bring to our school?
50. How do you handle diversity?
51. What was the hardest thing you had to deal with?
52. How would you like your children to grow up?
53. What will be the most challenging thing in dental school for you?
54. Name three things you have learned from your experiences in dentistry.
55. The effect of HMO’s on dentistry.