Dropping out of dental school to go back into consulting

So I'm currently finishing up my first year of dental school and I'm starting to think that I've made a big mistake. Here's my story

I graduated from a state school in biochemistry. I worked a lot in the hospital trying to make myself believe that this was what I wanted but I couldn't make a real connection.
Both my parents were consultants for years and so I decided to give it a shot. The summer of my second year I was extended an internship offer at a big global search firm which was then extend into a part time analyst role over the academic year. From then my plan was to continue working and hopefully get asked to come back full time upon graduation. Due to a bad year however I was informed during my lead into fourth year that they just wouldn't have the resources to hire me full time
I desperately tried to find a job as fourth year started. With no luck I figured what the hell I'll apply to dental school and see what happens and the rest is history.

So far I've managed to stay out of debt by burning through all my savings and getting some scholarships.
My question is what would be the best option?
I've taken a couple of practice GMAT tests and have been consistently hitting high 740's to low 750's. Would applying to business be a good idea? Would that approximately 2 years of part time work experience be any good?

I want to mention that this is just something that I've been thinking about. Just want to hear some opinions and feel the waters. I've discussed this at length with a lot of people and I realize that this could just be "the grass is always greener on the other side" mentality.

 

I'm confused on your experience. Do you only have Part-time internship experience thus far? How old are you? Did you recently graduate and enroll straight into Dental school? If you only have internship experience, I would say get some full-time business/finance experience for a few years before enrolling into Business school. You're obviously a really smart guy (getting into Dental school and averaging 750's on GMAT) so obtaining a top Entry-Level finance job shouldn't be hard. You can always enroll back into Dental school I believe if you don't like Consulting/Finance. I'm actually in the opposite thought process as you right now, I'm in Finance but looking to maybe do the Med/Dental route

 

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