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I agree with you on the fact that if someone is willing to work hard and reapply and they can score a 20-21 or above, then they deff deserve to get in, without a doubt I agree, however, on saturation I disagree, but I think it's okay to agree to disagreeThere are over 200,000 dentists in the United States. Adding a few dozen, or even a couple hundred more dentists each year is not going to saturate the market. Besides, while some schools have opened, and other schools have increased their class size, still other schools have reduced their class sizes. The only thing people tend to discuss on these forums are the new schools and those which have recently expanded. Furthermore, there is an aging population of boomers who will increasingly need dental care, and there are likely more dentists looking to retire now that the economy is in recovery after the recession.
In my opinion, a major technological breakthrough is more likely to be disruptive to the practice of dentistry on the short-term than gradually expanding the pool of graduating dentists each year.
If you are willing to retake the DAT and work hard to achieve a 21+ I am sure you will have at least one acceptance somewhere assuming that everything else on your application checks out.
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