COVID-19 Impacts on Application Cycle

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Will dental schools look at your application before you have DAT scores in? I was not able to get a test date until the beginning of August which is well past priority deadline for the school that I want to attend. With everything going on do you think that they might extend interviews without DAT scores and then evaluate them as they arrive? I know it usually takes an additional 2-4 weeks after you take the exam for your scores to be reported and I am worried that I will have little change of acceptance regardless at this point.
 
LC06091 said:
Will dental schools look at your application before you have DAT scores in? I was not able to get a test date until the beginning of August which is well past priority deadline for the school that I want to attend. With everything going on do you think that they might extend interviews without DAT scores and then evaluate them as they arrive? I know it usually takes an additional 2-4 weeks after you take the exam for your scores to be reported and I am worried that I will have little change of acceptance regardless at this point.
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Most people applying this cycle haven’t taken their DAT yet. They will figure it out, don’t stress. Most schools don’t even have their first rounds of interviews until September/October anyways.


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LC06091 said:
Will dental schools look at your application before you have DAT scores in? I was not able to get a test date until the beginning of August which is well past priority deadline for the school that I want to attend. With everything going on do you think that they might extend interviews without DAT scores and then evaluate them as they arrive? I know it usually takes an additional 2-4 weeks after you take the exam for your scores to be reported and I am worried that I will have little change of acceptance regardless at this point.
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no
you can fax/email your preliminary scores that you can print out when you finish the DAT, and some schools will consider you
 
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