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Hello everyone, please feel free to share your application experiences to CWRU dental school in this thread. The previous application links are as below, hope they help your application this cycle. Best of luck to your application!

2017-2018: Official Case Western Reserve Univ School of Dental Medicine DMD 2022 Thread
2018-2019: *** Official CWRU School of Dental Medicine 2019 (DMD 2023) THREAD ***

Link to interview prep: Case Western Reserve University School of Dentistry Interview Feedback
----> Be sure to give feedback on your interview to help future applicants! 🙂

*edited by the staff to include link to interview prep​
 
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Just got an interview invite!

Interview #3
School:
Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine
Notification date: 7/29/19
Method of notification: Email
Residency: New York
AADSAS mail-out date: 6/18
Application complete date: 6/21
GPA (science, overall): 3.84, 3.75
DAT (AA/TS/PAT/Reading/any section below a 17): 24/23/22/28/none
Interview date: TBA
 
Interview #2
School:
Case Western University School of Dental Medicine
Notification date: 07/29/2019
Method of notification: Email
Residency: GA
AADSAS mail-out date: 06/08/2019
Application complete date: 06/20/2019
GPA (science, overall): 3.75/3.76
DAT (AA/TS/PAT/Reading/any section below a 17): 20/20/22/22/none
Interview date: TBA
 
Interview #2
School: Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine
Notification date: 7/29/19
Method of notification: Email
Residency: Florida
AADSAS mail-out date: 6/12
Application complete date: N/A
GPA (science, overall): 3.78, 3.56
DAT (AA/TS/PAT/Reading/any section below a 17): 23/23/20/27/none
Interview date: TBA
 
Interview #3
School:
Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine
Notification date: 7/29
Method of notification: Email
Residency: Texas
AADSAS mail-out date: 6/4
Application complete date: 6/12
GPA (science, overall): 3.7, 3.9
DAT (AA/TS/PAT/Reading/any section below a 17): 20/19/20/24/none

🙂 Congrats to everyone with an interview so far!
 
Got my interview invite as well!

Interview #1
School:
Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine
Notification date: 7/29
Method of notification: Email
Residency: Indiana
AADSAS mail-out date: 7/10
Application complete date: 7/12
GPA (science, overall): 3.9, 3.9
DAT (AA/TS/PAT/Reading/any section below a 17): 20/20/23/23/none
 
Judging by the previous year's thread, it seems that applicants received interview invites around this time last year. Has anyone heard from admissions about an interview yet? I'm curious to know when they start offering invitations
 
Judging by the previous year's thread, it seems that applicants received interview invites around this time last year. Has anyone heard from admissions about an interview yet? I'm curious to know when they start offering invitations

A few people have received invites according to the Dental School Admissions Bootcamp group on FB! I also read somewhere (might have been from last year's thread) that Case sends out invites in batches and towards the end of every month. Not sure how accurate this is and/or whether it'll apply for this year.
 
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Has anybody started there Portfolio yet, I am having trouble staying under the 4MB restriction. It is impossible to do anything but a word doc. I tried powerpoint and 1 slide is over the 4MB restriction.
 
Has anybody started there Portfolio yet, I am having trouble staying under the 4MB restriction. It is impossible to do anything but a word doc. I tried powerpoint and 1 slide is over the 4MB restriction.
What portfolio are you talking about? am i missing something?
 
Has anybody started there Portfolio yet, I am having trouble staying under the 4MB restriction. It is impossible to do anything but a word doc. I tried powerpoint and 1 slide is over the 4MB restriction.
I'm having a lot of trouble too....
Even with a word document it's extremely tough to be able to fit everything under the 4MB restriction.
Anyone have any suggestions?
 
Has anybody started there Portfolio yet, I am having trouble staying under the 4MB restriction. It is impossible to do anything but a word doc. I tried powerpoint and 1 slide is over the 4MB restriction.
I'm having a lot of trouble too....
Even with a word document it's extremely tough to be able to fit everything under the 4MB restriction.
Anyone have any suggestions?
When you convert it into a pdf file, it will reduce in size. Test it out
 
Just got an interview invite!

Interview #3
School:
Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine
Notification date: 7/29/19
Method of notification: Email
Residency: New York
AADSAS mail-out date: 6/18
Application complete date: 6/21
GPA (science, overall): 3.84, 3.75
DAT (AA/TS/PAT/Reading/any section below a 17): 24/23/22/28/none
Interview date: TBA
Interview #2
School:
Case Western University School of Dental Medicine
Notification date: 07/29/2019
Method of notification: Email
Residency: GA
AADSAS mail-out date: 06/08/2019
Application complete date: 06/20/2019
GPA (science, overall): 3.75/3.76
DAT (AA/TS/PAT/Reading/any section below a 17): 20/20/22/22/none
Interview date: TBA
What're the earliest interview dates? tryna make an interview tracker 🙂
 
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Just wondering if any international applicants received an interview invitation from Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine so far? Thanks.
 
Interview #3
School: Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine
Notification date: 9/10/2019
Method of notification: Email
Residency: Ohio
AADSAS mail-out date: 7/2
Application complete date: 7/2
GPA (science, overall): 3.56, 3.61
DAT (AA/TS/PAT/Reading/any section below a 17): 21/20/21/24/none
Interview date: TBA
 
Interview #1
School: Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine
Notification date: 9/10/2019
Method of notification: email
Residency: Ohio
AADSAS mail-out date: 7/1
Application complete date: 7/2
GPA (science, overall): 3.66, 3.77
DAT (AA/TS/PAT/Reading/any section below a 17): 20/19/19/22/none
Interview date: TBA
 
Interview #2
School: Case Western Reserve
Notification date: 9/11/19
Method of notification: Email
Residency: NC
AADSAS mail-out date: 6/25
Application complete date: 7/3
GPA (overall, science): 3.79, 3.72
DAT (AA/TS/PAT/Reading/any section below a 17): 20/20/18/20/none
Interview date: 10/31 (It’s mostly end of October and November dates now, for those wondering).
 
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Interview #4
School: Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine
Notification date: 9/10/2019
Method of notification: email
Residency: Colorado
AADSAS mail-out date: 7/10
Application complete date: 7/11
GPA (science, overall): 3.88, 3.85
DAT (AA/TS/PAT/Reading/any section below a 17): 24/24/22/20/none


Going to decline the interview. Hopefully someone deserving receives it!
 
Is this still true? My app was fully verified by June 26th and I have pretty high stats. Still haven't heard anything from them. Have they sent out anything recently? Or are they done with pre-december interviews?
same boat as you🙁
 
I had my interview last week at Case Western and I was really impressed with the caliber of the facilities, location, faculty, and students. The interview day was very relaxed and I enjoyed the actual 1-1 interviews. It was very conversational and they really made me feel like they were interested in what I had to say. Overall great experience!
 
I had my interview last week at Case Western and I was really impressed with the caliber of the facilities, location, faculty, and students. The interview day was very relaxed and I enjoyed the actual 1-1 interviews. It was very conversational and they really made me feel like they were interested in what I had to say. Overall great experience!

May I ask if you submitted a portfolio? And if you did what did you put on there exactly? I’m having trouble getting mine off the ground...
 
May I ask if you submitted a portfolio? And if you did what did you put on there exactly? I’m having trouble getting mine off the ground...

Yes I believe the portfolio is mandatory this year. I did it in PowerPoint format with pictures depicting different areas of my life so they could get a better understanding of who I am. Examples: Family, hobbies, volunteer and leadership experiences, and why I thought Case was a good fit for me.
 
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Yes I believe the portfolio is mandatory this year. I did it in PowerPoint format with pictures depicting different areas of my life so they could get a better understanding of who I am. Examples: Family, hobbies, volunteer and leadership experiences, and why I thought Case was a good fit for me.
Alright, thanks for the input and good luck with your future endeavors!
 
For the portfolio, did yall use powerpoint and place everything one slide? How exactly would they like this formatted?
I used PowerPoint but you can use whatever you want! Mine was about 10 slides and I had to compress the pictures to make it fit within the MB limits. I wouldn't worry too much about it, just be creative and express your interests!
 
I used PowerPoint but you can use whatever you want! Mine was about 10 slides and I had to compress the pictures to make it fit within the MB limits. I wouldn't worry too much about it, just be creative and express your interests!
Thank you so much!!! I just made one slide and put a few pictures on the bottom. I also placed hyperlinks within the slide highlighting my research accomplishments. Hopefully that will be good enough!