ends...and acceptance.

[chancer]

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Hi,

Late 20's and finishing up my undergrad science pre-req's. My overall gpa is around a 3.4 but science classes are closer to 3.0.

Still haven't made up my mind on what program I will apply to, but denistry is becoming more attractive for a lot of reasons.

I have read however that dental school acceptance is extreme. Like 5% or something. Is this true? Also, I pretty have spent my savings on undergrad.

So, all postbac will be private and gov loans. Is anyone else funding their postbac entirely the same way.

thanks.

 

[DMBAND]

lol, the dental admission process is getting rather competetive but 5% would be would be crazy, the number of applicants that get accepted is closer to 33%! And to be honest I think MOST people end up taking out loans or financial aid for dental/med school, I know I am! Goodluck. are you applying for the next cycle?

 

[djeffreyt]

that 5% makes sense only if you think about acceptances in a certain way.

There are around 11,000 or 12,000 applicants this cycle, and there are about 4,100 dental school spots at all the schools...so about 33% of applicants, overall, get into a dental school.

But if you are talking about the % of applicants to any single particular school getting accepted, those numbers vary a lot.

Mississippi, for example, only takes in state residents, so they only have around 150-200 applicants each year for their 36 open spots....so that's about a 18-30% acceptance rate

Other popular schools like Nova get over 3000 applicants for about 100 open spots...and that is like a 3.3% acceptance rate. This isn't to say that the rate of acceptance isn't actually higher cause not everyone takes the offer from every school, so Nova probably accepts twice as many students (6.6%) and only half say yes.

Maybe that's where you got 5%.

 

[Drill2Fill]

Could you image what the DAT scores would be like if they only accepted 5%.

 

[chancer]

Hi,
I was pulling stats from UW. It says 1021 applicants for 55 positions. But the UW is a harder school to get into. Your right though, looking at stats for all schools it would be a higher admission rate. I think being accepted to one that grants state residency after one year would be choice.

The only thing I am worried about is the ADEA calculates GPA from all classes taken. Some of the science classes I took nearly 10 years ago, and didn't do so great. So, I had them retaken. I did much better this time, but it still really affects my science GPA.

thanks for the responses...

 

[diane07]

State schools accept a majority of in state applicants. The reason: state schools receive funding from the state, and if tax dollars are being used - then it's to their advantage to ensure that plenty of grads end up residing and serving in that state.

Some schools recieve 3000+ applications and others receive several hundred.

So basically, you have to tailor how you're coming up with your percentages based on the different schools.