interest in
pursuing dentistry as a career. From 1991 through 1996,
students participated in this program. Baylor College of Dentistry soon
realized the need to offer a longer, more intense enrichment program
and additional facilitated-entry and retention activities, which would
better prepare participants for admission into dental school, as well
as increase their likelihood of success once admitted.
What
started as a three-week program in 1991 with ten students participating
in four courses has grown to its current size, where 25
students participate in eight weeks of enrichment and retention
activities, pre-application counseling and post-application advocacy,
in addition to the six core courses. 324
students participated in the Summer Pre-Dental Enrichment Program from
1997 to the summer of 2007, for a total of 367 students involved since
the beginning of the program.
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