Question about admission stats

[hye345]

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On predents.com., it shows that most dental schools accept anywhere from 10-15% of applicants, give or take a few. However, some of these schools have an average entering GPA of less than 3.3. Is this because there are many sub-3.0 applicants, or because of the interview process, or what?

 

[SugarNaCl]

On predents.com., it shows that most dental schools accept anywhere from 10-15% of applicants, give or take a few. However, some of these schools have an average entering GPA of less than 3.3. Is this because there are many sub-3.0 applicants, or because of the interview process, or what?

Predents isn't that great of an indication of the actual sampling pool. Try this website instead
http://www.adea.org/Resources/OG/OG_3_WhereToApply.pdf

 

[wigglytooth]

On predents.com., it shows that most dental schools accept anywhere from 10-15% of applicants, give or take a few. However, some of these schools have an average entering GPA of less than 3.3. Is this because there are many sub-3.0 applicants, or because of the interview process, or what?

pages 16-20 for more complete stats:

http://www.adea.org/webdocs/AADSAS/DentistryUpdate.pdf

apparently 15% of all enrollees for 2005 had sub 3.0 GPAs

 

[hye345]

Ok; in general, I arrive at the same conlcusion: some dental schools have GPA averages of less than 3.3, but even for these schools, less than 1/4 of applicants are accepted.

 

[hye345]

Predents isn't that great of an indication of the actual sampling pool. Try this website instead
http://www.adea.org/Resources/OG/OG_3_WhereToApply.pdf

Sorry to bring this thread back to life, but where did you guys get this web page? I try the following URL: http://www.adea.org/Resources/OG , but it says that it is restricted.

 

[Eisenhower]

On predents.com., it shows that most dental schools accept anywhere from 10-15% of applicants, give or take a few. However, some of these schools have an average entering GPA of less than 3.3. Is this because there are many sub-3.0 applicants, or because of the interview process, or what?

I have a question. Before you get into Dental School, is it required that you get interviewed? Or is it just for the applicants that the school is neutral on? I quoted you b/c I clicked that link and noticed that only a percentage got interviewed that got in...

 

[Hysteria24]

I have a question. Before you get into Dental School, is it required that you get interviewed? Or is it just for the applicants that the school is neutral on? I quoted you b/c I clicked that link and noticed that only a percentage got interviewed that got in...

In my experience, I've never heard of a student gaining admission without an interview.

If you are referring to the predents link, it could be that a student recorded the date of his/her acceptance, but never entered the interview date, leading to your assumption.

 

[z3u2]

In my experience, I've never heard of a student gaining admission without an interview.

If you are referring to the predents link, it could be that a student recorded the date of his/her acceptance, but never entered the interview date, leading to your assumption.

i have a friend who got accepted to NYU without interview, the acceptance was sent to her in dec, that was for the class entering 2006

not too sure about her stats, probably only avg, but have been a dental assistant for several years.

 

[sarah_bellum]

NYU is famous for not necessarily requiring interviews.

 

[Eisenhower]

i have a friend who got accepted to NYU without interview, the acceptance was sent to her in dec, that was for the class entering 2006

not too sure about her stats, probably only avg, but have been a dental assistant for several years.

Wow. I was referring to the link I had posted in my first reply on this thread, and since I'm in Dallas, Texas I was specifically looking at Baylor College of Dentistry. Amazed me...

 

[NAVY DDS 2010]

In my experience, I've never heard of a student gaining admission without an interview.

If you are referring to the predents link, it could be that a student recorded the date of his/her acceptance, but never entered the interview date, leading to your assumption.

I am not sure if they still do it, but Creighton use to accept people without having interviews. I was accepted there in 1995 and had never set foot on campus or even spoke with anyone there before rejecting their acceptance offer.