I did some data mining on dental schools in each US state...

[icechewer]

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The US has an average of 1.58 seats for D1 students per 100K people. 4726/(299000000/100000) = 1.58 seats/100K people

These states have a lower-than-average number of seats:

These states have more seats than the average:

Of course, these states have no schools at all: Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Wyoming.

So my opinion is that the first group of states should accept only in-state students, especially the public schools which are state funded. The other schools with more seats than average should accept some out-of-state students.

What do you think? PM me with your email and I will send you the excel file to manipulate/graph/correct/geek out 🙂/ etc.

 

[armorshell]

Ooh statistics. You just hit my sweet spot 😀

However, this is all thrown out of whack by the fact that people from every state go all over the place. Anyone have stats for how many applicants come out of each state?

 

[NOsaintsfan]

Here's my 2 cents.

Your statistics, while they might be accurate, don't actually provide us with anything useful. It doesn't matter if 10,000,000 people live in a particular state if none of those people actually apply to dental school.

What I'm saying is I feel like the ratio of applicants/seat is much more useful. That info is readily available as well.