2020: Competitiveness of admission to MD vs DMD/DDS schools

[mmc12]

Is it generally harder to get into a MD Allopathic US medical school than a USA dental school? Could most incoming dental students be competitive for admissions for an MD school? (assuming they modify their applications and gain the medicine-related extracurricular activities)

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[bracketbuster68]

The short answer is MD is generally harder. Many dental students could be competitive for an MD school, but far more would be competitive for DO.

 

[axiumgod]

In general, my guess is MD > DMD=DO > Caribbean MD

I think it probably varies between the tier of the schools though, i.e. lower tier MD schools may be less competitive than the most competitive dental schools

 

[ToothJockey]

When in doubt, always look at the statistics

https://www.aamc.org/system/files/2020-04/2019_FACTS_Table_A-23_0.pdf

 

[doc toothache]

When in doubt, always look at the statistics

https://www.aamc.org/system/files/2020-04/2019_FACTS_Table_A-23_0.pdf

That would require some effort and handling a mouse and keyboard is exhausting.

 

[LegendaryPanda]

I looked at all the data from the official websites and found the averages for the year 2018. The MD has much higher standards than both DO and DDS/DMD. DO and DDS/DMD have very similar GPA standards, but there's no actual correlation between MCAT and DAT to make any sort of direct conjecture. As a person who actually took the MCAT, I can say for sure that it is way harder than the DAT, but I can't for sure say that 64 percentile on the MCAT is equivalent to 78 percentile on the DAT, although that's about roughly where I would equate them. So @hersh_98 was pretty spot on with their guess, maybe MD > DDS/DMD >= DO. Prior to this I would have thought that MD > DO > DDS for sure. I knew DO were less competitive than MD, and I figured like 3.6/507 MCAT, but I did not realize DO scores were so much lower.

Average MD school matriculant:
cGPA - 3.72
sGPA -3.65
MCAT - 511.2 (87 percentile according to 2017-2018 scale)

Average DO school matriculant:
cGPA - 3.54
sGPA - 3.43
MCAT - 504 (64 percentile according to 2017-2018 scale)
Pre-2015 MCAT - 25 (50 percentile)

Average Dental school matriculant:
cGPA - 3.55
sGPA - 3.45
DAT - 20.5 (Between 73-82 percentile at roughly 78% according to 2017 scale)

Sources:

https://www.aamc.org/system/files/2019-10/2019_FACTS_Table_A-16.pdf

https://www.aacom.org/docs/default-source/data-and-trends/2018-aacomas-applicant-matriculant-profile-summary-report.pdf?sfvrsn=28753a97_14

https://aamc-orange.global.ssl.fastly.net/production/media/filer_public/86/8a/868a293e-561d-4d29-be44-a7b6363df496/mcat_total_and_section_score_percentile_ranks_2017_for_web.pdf

http://www.ada.org/~/media/ADA/Education%20and%20Careers/Files/dat_users_manual.ashx

Applicants, Enrollees and Graduates

www.adea.org

 

[HighestHand]

Bahaha, now we can all tell those people making stupid jokes about dentists being failed doctors to shove it.

The age old joke: "What do you call a doctor who couldn't get into medical school? A dentist."