For CCSU student Dave
McKenzie, whose published name
will remain a pseudonym, becoming a dentist has been his dream
since high school.
Upon entering college, he
chose molecular biology as a major
that he would passionately submerge himself into for the next four
years in preparation for the challenges ahead.
But even with a prestigious
private university education, attaining top grades, involvement in diverse extracurriculars, countless
hours of shadowing and volunteering , and scoring a standardized test
score of what supposedly is the
“magic” number, one thing has kept
him from a achieving his dream…
he didn’t get in, twice.