Validation
- After Dental Hygiene Program Application received
- After our Application Validation process, you will be sent a letter either verifying your valid application with an invitation to attend the Testing and Introduction Presentation or a letter stating that your application was invalid.
- Validating Dental Hygiene Program Application
- The following items INVALIDATE your application:
- Failure to submit the completed Application, all forms, official transcripts, test sores, AND verification letter(s) by 3:00 pm on January 22, 2010. If it arrives at 3:01 pm on January 22, 2010, it is invalid.
- Failure to CHOOSE a location.
- Failure to follow and meet ALL criteria as outlined in Application Process and Directions, regardless, due dates included.
- Failure to attain the minimum GPA of 2.5 in a Pre-dental Hygiene course (2.0 minimum GPA for computer courses) and a cumulative GPA in the Pre-dental Hygiene courses, excluding the computer courses, of a 3.3.
- Failure to produce a clear Background Check.
- Campus location selection
- Pierce College does not determine where you will attend. YOU must select your location at time of application. Your acceptance will be based on the availability of positions at the campus location. We accept 20 at the Lakewood campus and five (5) at the Port Angeles campus every other fall quarter. The satellite campus is evaluated yearly or bi-yearly for viability. If we determine that there is no longer a need for the satellite campus, the Lakewood campus will accept up to 20 students each year. All student acceptance numbers are subject to change.
- Invitational Testing and Informational Session
- The Testing and Informational Session occurs in late March on a Saturday! You will be invited to attend the testing session IF your Dental Hygiene Program Application is validated. Plan on spending 4 hours with us for the testing and informational session.
- Notification of Acceptance into the Pierce College Dental Hygiene Program!
- All applicants will be notified of their offer of acceptance (conditional or completed), alternate status, or non-acceptance into the Pierce College Dental Hygiene Program by letter mailed on the THIRD FRIDAY in APRIL.
