Here are the official stats from the ADEA.
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from ADEA -- e-mailed to the national health professions advisors
list-serv:
>We have not yet completed the year 2000 entering class applicant
analysis;
>but here is what we have for the 1999 entering class.
>
>number of applicants: 9010
>number of enrollees: 4209
>% of applicants enrolled: 46.7
>average science GPA of enrollees: 3.26
>average total GPA of enrollees: 3.35
>DAT academic average of enrollees: 18.1
>DAT perceptual ability of enrollees: 17.1
>DAT total science of enrollees: 17.9
>
>While the number of applicants has declined over 8 percent between
1997 and
>1999 (and it is estimated that there was a further 10 percent decline
in
>2000), there has been no decline in average GPA and DAT scores. There
also
>has been no decline in the number of first-time dental school
enrollees.
