Justin Ho, a current dental student with an expected
graduation in 2026, loves the University of Minnesota School
of Dentistry, and wants other prospective students to know how great it
is.
“When I was mentoring pre-dental students, I found many of
them never considered Minnesota, just because they didn’t know much about it,”
he explained. Given his own experience with the dental school’s programming and
preparation as an undergraduate, Mr. Ho worked with his fellow American Student
Dental Association (ASDA) members to bridge that gap.
Read on as Mr. Ho details his solution of Mini Dental
School, an eight-week, hybrid program meant to introduce predental and
undergraduate learners to dentistry and the University of Minnesota. In its
inaugural year, Mr. Ho and his classmates journeyed with 85 students, “letting
them dip their toes into the water and see what dental school is like.”
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