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Recently, some have questioned the advisability of applying to dental school before completion of a bachelor's degree. The following information was compiled from the ADEA Official Guide to Dental schools 2006. The 2005 figures were used since a large number of schools did not report the statistics for the 2006 scholastic year. The reader should note that the data for 4 years of college and a bacc. degree are somewhat misleading for a number of institutions. The data for 4 years presumably indicates that students have completed 4 years of college without receiving a degree. If we assume that the figures for the bacc degree are correct we can estimate the percentage of students that have completed 4 years.
One SDNer suggested that the number of enrollees with 2 years of college may be low only because there are very few in this group that are applying. While this may be a plausible explanation, the more likely reason is that adcoms may be disinclined to take a chance on relatively young students who may or may not follow through with their conviction about dentistry, and possibly, resulting in higher a attrition rate, at least in this group.
One SDNer suggested that the number of enrollees with 2 years of college may be low only because there are very few in this group that are applying. While this may be a plausible explanation, the more likely reason is that adcoms may be disinclined to take a chance on relatively young students who may or may not follow through with their conviction about dentistry, and possibly, resulting in higher a attrition rate, at least in this group.
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Predental Education of all first year enrollees for 2005
Total 2 yrs 3 yrs 4 yrs Bacc Mast Ph.D. % w/Bac
Alabama 56 0 0 [B]56 [/B][B]54[/B] 2 0 96.43
Arizona 54 n/a 5 n/a 48 1 0 88.89
Loma L 95 n/a 1 n/a 94 98.95
UCLA 88 0 1 1 86 1 0 97.73
UCSF 80 0 0 0 78 1 1 97.5
UOP 141 1 11 8 116 2 3 82.27
USC 147 n/a n/a n/a 144 3 0 97.96
Colo 50 0 8 9 41 1 0 82
Conn 39 0 0 [B]38[/B] [B]38 [/B]1 0 97.44
Florida 82 0 0 [B]82 [/B][B]77[/B] 5 0 93.9
Georgia 62 0 0 1 59 2 0 95.16
Ill 66 0 0 [B]66[/B] [B]66 [/B]4 0 100
S Illi 50 0 10 0 39 1 0 78
Ind 101 0 3 [B]95 [/B][B]80[/B] 3 0 79.21
Iowa 76 0 18 0 56 2 0 73.68
Kent 56 0 1 3 50 2 0 89.29
Louis 60 0 1 3 53 3 0 88.33
Maryl 124 0 0 0 118 4 0 95.16
Boston 115 0 1 6 106 2 0 92.17
Harvard 35 n/a n/a n/a 32 2 1 91.43
Tufts 158 8 [B]150[/B] [B]150 [/B]6 0 94.94
Mercy 78 7 5 1 63 2 0 80.77
Mich 110 0 2 2 100 5 1 90.91
Minn 98 0 10 7 79 1 0 80.61
MissKC 100 0 1 10 87 2 0 87
Creight 85 0 14 [B]71 [/B][B]62 [/B]1 0 72.94
Nebras 45 0 7 5 32 1 0 71.11
Nevada 75 0 4 20 50 0 1 66.67
UMDNJ 88 1 13 1 76 3 0 86.36
Columb 78 n/a n/a n/a 74 2 2 94.87
NY 232 0 8 0 207 15 1 89.22
SUNYBuf 85 0 0 [B]85 [/B][B]82[/B] 3 1 96.47
SUNY SB 39 n/a n/a n/a 39 1 0 100
NCarol 81 0 1 [B]76 [/B][B]76[/B] 4 0 93.83
Case 75 2 3 12 56 2 0 74.67
Ohio 104 0 9 6 89 4 0 85.58
Oklahom 60 0 1 10 44 5 73.33
Oregon 75 0 0 1 74 0 0 98.67
Penn 116 0 8 0 106 3 0 91.38
Pitt 80 0 5 [B]71 [/B][B]71[/B] 5 1 88.75
Temple 125 0 5 14 97 8 0 77.6
SCarol 54 0 0 0 54 1 0 100
Meharry 60 0 0 7 59 3 0 98.33
Tenn 80 0 0 15 64 1 0 80
Baylor 91 0 1 1 88 1 0 96.7
UT Hou 74 0 4 8 62 0 0 83.78
UT-SA 90 0 13 1 65 4 0 72.22
Virg 90 0 1 [B]88 [/B][B]88 [/B]1 0 97.78
Wash 56 0 2 [B]53[/B] [B]53 [/B]1 0 94.64
WVrg 50 0 15 5 27 1 1 54
Marqu 80 0 13 [B]67 [/B][B]67 [/B]0 0 83.75
PP 40 0 0 n/a 36 0 0 90
Count 4329 11 213 1155 3812 148 13
% 0.25% 4.92% 26.68% 88.06% 3.42% 0.30%
Cor Count 192
Corr% 4.45
Bold numbers represent questionable stats.
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