 Hello everybody, Andrea Trask here with Dental Health Tutoring. So I want to talk to you guys about being accepted into either the Dental Hygiene Program or the Dental Assisting Program. A lot of people ask me if you have core marks in high school, will the Dental Hygiene Program or the Dental Assisting Program be too hard for you? No, it will not because if you think about it, at least this is the way for me or was for me. So I can only speak for myself here. But I didn't like high school, I was not learning things that I wanted to learn and I got horrible marks. I did study very, very hard actually, but I would be lucky to get a 75, you know, and that to me is not the most amazing marks. But when I went to Dental Assisting School and then Dental Hygiene School, I had honors all throughout. Even when I took restorative hygiene about two years ago, same thing, I had amazing marks. Sorry guys, something just kind of popped up here. But I had very good marks. But my high school teachers, they would all tell you if you were to ask them, Andrea didn't really have the most amazing marks, you know, but as soon as I took a college program that I wanted to, I loved learning new things. I loved to study and learn. I mean that love of learning quickly fades because you become exhausted and then you realize how much you have to study. But all in all, I was learning things that I wanted to learn. So even if you have poor marks in public school and high school, it doesn't matter. It doesn't mean that you won't be an amazing dental hygiene student or dental assisting student. So take the program if that's what you want. I do have people ask me, well, should you take the dental hygiene program or the dental assisting program? It depends on what you want to do. If you're not sure, like if you're just honestly not sure, then I suggest taking the dental assisting program first because it's less intense and you can do a little bit of everything. You are the ones who are cleaning up the rooms, setting up the rooms, helping the dentist. When I was a dental assistant, I was a receptionist actually first. So I did a little bit of everything and you know what, I loved it. Like I did, I loved it, but I always wanted to clean teeth. So I knew that that is what I wanted to do. I wanted to be able to work on my own with the dental assistant. They work alongside the dentist all day and that's awesome. But I just wanted to do my own thing. So I like being able to see my patients, talk to my patients, clean their teeth, say goodbye, you know, like things like that. So I just loved cleaning teeth and to be a dental assistant, you are doing a little bit of everything. As a dental hygienist, you are always cleaning teeth. So are you the type of person who wants to be doing the same thing every day? Maybe not. If you don't, then maybe dental assisting is more for you because you are doing so many things all the time. So it just kind of depends on what you want to do. But I guess in a nutshell, don't be afraid if you have poor marks now. Even if you're just starting your dental hygiene program and your dental assisting program and if you have poor marks, that's normal because everything's new to you. You are learning everything new. It's a fast paced program. So just coming out of high school, any college program you take the first semester will be the hardest because you're learning everything. You are learning how to study. You probably have to work at the same time. You might live on your own. So just everything's new. So keep your head up. Keep your chin up. Study hard and you will make it. So good luck, everybody.