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Applying to Dental Assisting

Indigenous applicants apply through the general Dental Assisting application process.

Please take a moment to review the Dental Assisting website. If you have any questions specifically about the program/program requirements reach out to the Dentistry program directly at admissions@dentistry.ualberta.ca or 780-492-1319.

Indigenous Stream Interviews

Our office (WIHP) focuses on the Indigenous Stream interviews, while the Dentistry program handles the MMI interviews. We host an informal, conversational style interview with applicants and a panel of Indigenous interviewers. The panel is usually made up of one WIHP team member, a current Indigenous student, a faculty member, and community member. Here we get an understanding of your pathway to medicine and how our program can best support you as you move forward into the program. From there, the panelists submit their comments on who is recommended to join the program through Wapanachakos, and who is recommended to join the general stream.

GPA for Indigenous Applicants

All Indigenous applicants follow the minimum grade averages for high school applicants to be accepted into the interviews. This is a minimum of 65% in each of the following high school subjects:

• English Language Arts 30-1 0r 30-2

Two of the following:

• Biology 30
• Chemistry 30
• Science 30

One of the following:

• Math 30-1
• Math 30-2
• Pure Math 30
• Applied Math 30

*High school courses can be substituted if an applicant has the post-secondary equivalent, with a grade of C+ or above. The eligible courses are:

• English or writing (3 units)
• Biology (3 units)
• Chemistry (3 units)
• Any science (3 units)
• Mathematics or statistics (3 units)

If you are well far and beyond these requirements, that is excellent but you do not need to have a competitive average as you would going into the general admissions process.

Indigenous Application Requirements

Indigenous people applying into the program need to submit all the same things listed in the general application requirements. We do require notarized proof of Indigenous ancestry as outlined in the º£½ÇÉçÇø Calendar, (submitted through your UAlberta Launchpad) for people looking to enter the Indigenous stream. This also needs to be submitted by the application deadline.

• a certified copy* of a Status card from the Government of Canada;
• a certified copy* of a Métis membership card from one of the five Métis Provincial Affiliates or recognized Territorial organizations; Métis Nation of Alberta, Métis Nation of Ontario, Manitoba Metis Federation, Métis Nation Saskatchewan, Métis Nation British Columbia, Northwest Territory Métis Nation. Additionally, the student may present a membership card from the Métis Settlements General Council showing membership in a Métis Settlement of Alberta;
• a certified copy* of an enrolment card issued by Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.
• documentation that an ancestor’s name has been entered 1) in the Indian Register according to the Indian Act, or 2) on the band list of an individual band, or 3) as beneficiaries of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement or other claim regions such as Nunatsiavut, Nunavik, and Inuvialuit;
• written confirmation of Indigenous identity from Indigenous Services
• written confirmation of Inuit enrolment from Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.
• written confirmation of membership by a band council which has enacted its own band membership code

The º£½ÇÉçÇø recognizes that Indigeneity and connecting to your Indigenous identity can be a complex process. We work closely with the º£½ÇÉçÇø Committee on the Documentation of Indigeneity to review documentation that is not listed above.

*Certified copy references that the documents will be from a certified organization. Documentation does not need to be notarized to be submitted.