For those of you still waiting;
-If you haven't heard from them (or other schools) since you submitted, consider sending an "update" email. I made a word/pdf "update" of the things I had done since my app was submitted in the summer- research I had done, classes, volunteering, training etc - and just said I would like to add this to my file for consideration. Puts you back on their radar without being annoying or neurotic and shows you're committed to lifelong education. COINCIDENTALLY a few days later on Christmas eve I got an interview invite.
-Don't get caught up in the pissing match of stats or "rate my chances" here on SDN. I promise you, not one admissions committee cares one iota what anyone here thinks your chances are. You know what average and good stats are, anything more is just stroking your ego or feeding your neurosis. Because...
-At the end of the day everyone is different. Even if you had straight 30's and a 4.0 you aren't guaranteed to get in. Obviously do well academically but everyone does well academically so think about boosting your profile by being well rounded, being interesting, etc. Truthfully, pre-dent academics aren't a fail proof indicator of dental school success. On average 4-5 people will fail out/have to repeat etc and it's NOT necessarily the people with the lowest entering stats.
-True life; our class lost I think 4 from academics the first semester (& 3 at the end of the year for hand skills) and of those 4 none were the lowest entering GPA/DAT, the reason I know is that it was me (they announced the "range" of entering scores during orientation and I had a slight panic attack that maybe I wouldn't make it). It took me 4 years and 3 application cycles to get in. I rank in the top 15 in the class now so, again, the metrics used for acceptance or getting into lots of schools (I only got accepted to VCU, OOS) aren't necessarily indicators for success.
TL;DR - hope this helps, feel free to ask me any questions
Be calm and good luck
