How confident can you be...

[rebmem eman]

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How confident can you be that you're most likely going to be accepted by a school if you were interviewed, your DAT AA is, say, three points above the average at the school, and your GPA is a bit higher than the average? Does dental admissions work like college admissions where sometimes you're just not a good fit for the dental school, not the type of person they were looking for even though your stats were spot-on? Are dental schools fickle that way?

 

[Seahawk]

How confident can you be that you're most likely going to be accepted by a school if you were interviewed, your DAT AA is, say, three points above the average at the school, and your GPA is a bit higher than the average? Does dental admissions work like college admissions where sometimes you're just not a good fit for the dental school, not the type of person they were looking for even though your stats were spot-on? Are dental schools fickle that way?

Yes. Of course, stats help... but I have seen too many people with amazing stats get rejected in whilst people with low stats get in to believe any other way.

 

[ewu6three]

This is precisely the case. This is why dental schools have an interview process and (most) undergrads do not.

 

[autoclavemonkey]

From what I've observed from this cycle, an interview can be responsible up to 20-25% of your admission chance/grade so to say. Maybe not all schools do this, but two schools I interviewed at admitted that they rank students after adding points from your interview. It's not all that surprising considering how many applicants they receive and interview.