hey dragonfly,
UDMercy is a pretty reputable school, they've opened clinics about 3-4 yrs ago(not exactly sure when),so you've pretty much have state of the art tech in the labs. The actual dental school is on the out skirts of detroit, so there is a large patient population, lots of opportunity for patient care. As far as admissions, I don't believe they will take a second thought at an application that doesn't have at LEAST an 18/18, and I'm not sure if the base of 18 applies to all catagories of the dat, however they are strict with the scores. They are also prompt in all aspects of the admissions process.
if you call, they'll send you quite a bit of info....or email your address....