dental school ACCEPTANCE rate

[yrl]

i was going through the official guide, and they only list the # of applicants, the # interviewed, and the # of people who actually go.

but ABOUT what % of those interviewed are actually ACCEPTED (but may choose to not enroll). does anyone know?

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[therock21]

Good luck finding that info buddy, your best bet to get an idea of that information is to look around predents.com

 

[takedailyfiber]

No concrete numbers, and if there were, they don't say much anyway. Different for every school, usually you won't know exact numbers until you attend an interview, where the admissions people tell everyone how things look.

Some schools interview by the bunches, and accept lower amounts (maybe 20%?).

Some schools accept a huge portion of those interviewed (over 50%). This is important: If you get an interview, realize that you're absolutely in a position to get yourself in dental school.

This is from my experience last cycle, talking to people, watching admissions presentations, etc.

 

[Lethstang]

if you take the total number of applicants last year, and then compare it to the total number of seats, you have a 40% acceptance rate.

 

[pacific2013]

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?p=9215293#post9215293

 

[pumpUup]

I had interviews at NOVA and Midwestern.
Nova = interviews 400 and then accept 110 i think
Midwestern = interviews 500 and then accept 111.

I think about 70% accepted students go to other school so basically i think u get 1/3 chance to get accepted if u got an interview.

 

[baseballjunkie]

Tufts was 70-80%. Many of the private, expensive schools are around that number. Many state schools are much less, because they know their in-state residents want to pay lower tuition so they will take the acceptance...

 

[ashlander]

I had interviews at NOVA and Midwestern.
Nova = interviews 400 and then accept 110 i think
Midwestern = interviews 500 and then accept 111.

I think about 70% accepted students go to other school so basically i think u get 1/3 chance to get accepted if u got an interview.

I don't think this is right. Those numbers = each school's class size.
For the actual rate, I think Nova is somewhere 50% after interview, meaning about 200+ get accepted and about half of them attend.
Midwestern def. higher than 50% after interview if they interview 500.., and less than half of accepted attend.
These are just my estimates since those two schools are very expensive and many will go to their instate public schools if possible.
Also, all those admissions won't go out at the same time(dec.1) just in case more than their class capacity choose to attend..so they would have long waitlists and many of them eventually get off the waitlist and get in.
I think some schools interview A LOT and offer admissions to more than twice their class size since many ppl turn them down.
However, I think schools like UCLA, UOP interview very few and admit ~90% of them and most of them do attend.

 

[AskJeeves]

i was going through the official guide, and they only list the # of applicants, the # interviewed, and the # of people who actually go.

but ABOUT what % of those interviewed are actually ACCEPTED (but may choose to not enroll). does anyone know?

Approximately 10,000 applicants apply each year and approximately 4000 dental students are graduated each year. So if you do the math, approximately 40% get in somewhere.

 

[pacific2013]

I had interviews at NOVA and Midwestern.
Nova = interviews 400 and then accept 110 i think
Midwestern = interviews 500 and then accept 111.

I think about 70% accepted students go to other school so basically i think u get 1/3 chance to get accepted if u got an interview.

According to the Excel file that I linked to, Midwestern Class of 2013 accepted 213 students out of the 570 applicants that interviewed. Look at column Y, AA, AF, and AH. Some schools such as Nova do not list all the admissions info. The number "111" is the number of matriculated students, not the total number of students who were accepted.

 

[Skygrandpager]

Here ya go, this should help:

http://www.adea.org/publications/Documents/OG_2010/OG2010_ch3.pdf