...when the reported numbers of things like 2.5% are actually the enrollment numbers? Do dental schools only accept the amount of seats they have?
Admissions rates vs. enrollment rate
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I could be wrong, but right of the bat, isn't the average of yearly applicants like 12,000 per year for the last 2 years?
And the number of seats available for 1st year dental students is like 5,000.....
How is this 2.5%?
This is almost a 50/50 chance... More accurately, approximately a 40% chance for an applicant....
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Midwestern and probably a few more schools accept more seats than they have because they expect a few people to drop out or transfer. For example for 2015, Midwestern matriculated 131 people but only have 125 seats.
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This is accurate, in the 80s there was nearly a 1 : 1.26 matriculate to applicant ratio for dentists, this caused many dental schools to accept more and put out lackluster dentists. This lead to the closing of about 6-8 schools. On average there's about 13-15000 applicants per year with the ~5000 seats giving you about 33% acceptance.
It's an interesting read: http://news.vin.com/VINNews.aspx?articleId=27460
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Do they assume that everyone they accept will matriculate to their school? Even though some people receive acceptances to more than one school? Some undergraduate institutions accept double the amount of seats they have because they know not everyone will attend their school.
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Some (I'd assume most) schools accept more students than they matriculate because they run under the assumption that not every student they accept will choose to attend their school. For example, UNLV accepted 209 students for the 2012-2013 admission cycle and enrolled 84:
Ehh it's not that easy to say 40% chance of acceptance. for this to be true it would mean that every applicant fit every single schools requirement and they applied to every single dental school which we know isn't the case. It's better tojust calculate your own chance of acceptance for x number of schools applied to.
