Early Decision

[FLGirl22]

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Does anyone know if any dental schools offer an early decision option?

 

[smileforme31]

seriously?...

 

[bluejays]

None of the dental schools do this. The earliest notification from any school is December 1st.

 

[trixie2126]

Minnesota has an early decision program-they notified applicants in sept whether or not they were accepted. However, since MN is a state school, typically it only accepts in-state applicants and some regional (they only accept about 5 out of state/out of regional states).

 

[Cleric7x9]

Dental schools are bound by contract with AADSAS not to let students know earlier than Dec 1. If Minnesota did, it was informal, or they broke the rules.

 

[Jake8]

There are some programs at schools where you can do a junior honors type deal where as a freshman if you have good grades then you take an accelerated load and place into that dental school either junior or senior year. However those are normally rare and vary school to school. I know UF did something similar, but my fall freshman grades knocked me off the necessary 4.0.

Also if you do a masters program at some schools you are a shoe in for a spot in their dental school as long as you make the necessary grades. Nova immediately comes to mind, but the master program takes less than 5 people each year for dental.

 

[joh02034]

Dental schools are bound by contract with AADSAS not to let students know earlier than Dec 1. If Minnesota did, it was informal, or they broke the rules.

It is the same acceptance as in Dec 1 but has higher requirements. Like DAT of 19 and each section must be 17 or higher. In addition to that, your GPA can't fall below 3.0 for any semester after acceptance and all grades need to be C or above (so fall and spring semesters). Overall GPA needs to stay above 3.4 and science 3.2. If you follow these, you are accepted. But with the Dec 1 acceptances, you only need a C or above for your remaining classes. Basically you trade off finding out early for just tanking it for the rest of the year. But they are both official acceptances.

 

[doc toothache]

Dental schools are bound by contract with AADSAS not to let students know earlier than Dec 1. If Minnesota did, it was informal, or they broke the rules.

You are confusing AADSAS with ADEA. There is no contract. The ADEA simply has recommendations and guidelines.

https://portal.aadsasweb.org/aadsas2009/instructions/adeaguidelines2009.pdf

 

[Contach]

december 1st is pretty fu#$ing early.

 

[trixie2126]

It is the same acceptance as in Dec 1 but has higher requirements. Like DAT of 19 and each section must be 17 or higher. In addition to that, your GPA can't fall below 3.0 for any semester after acceptance and all grades need to be C or above (so fall and spring semesters). Overall GPA needs to stay above 3.4 and science 3.2. If you follow these, you are accepted. But with the Dec 1 acceptances, you only need a C or above for your remaining classes. Basically you trade off finding out early for just tanking it for the rest of the year. But they are both official acceptances.

They actually just changed the gpa requirements to the following (these new requirements are being implented next year): overall gpa needs to be at or above 3.6 and science gpa at or above 3.5. The DAT requirements are still the same.

 

[joh02034]

They actually just changed the gpa requirements to the following (these new requirements are being implented next year): overall gpa needs to be at or above 3.6 and science gpa at or above 3.5. The DAT requirements are still the same.

It says that at the time of the application you need those, but I wonder if you have to maintain it once accepted. The criteria to maintain acceptance I got was the ones above, but of course it is possible, and likely, that they are increasing the standards.

 

[joh02034]

It looks like they are actually phasing the EDP out of admissions. Personally, I didn't really understand why they had it in the first place (even though I did it).

 

[DrReo]

It looks like they are actually phasing the EDP out of admissions. Personally, I didn't really understand why they had it in the first place (even though I did it).

Exactly:

http://www.dentistry.umn.edu/progra...nformation/early_admission_criteria/home.html