Schools requesting official dat score thread! Saving you money $25 at a time!

[wantVCUdental]

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Hi everyone,
so according to AADSAS AND ADA:
"If the schools you requested participate in a standardized application service, e.g., the Associated American Dental Schools Application Service (AADSAS) or the Texas Medical and Dental Schools Application Service (TMDSAS), the scores will be available to the schools directly and through the application service."

Let's start a list of which schools want official scores! i am going to call all the schools that i applied to and start a list, and i hope that you guys can call as well and get more answers from the schools!

 

[peanutb123]

There are couple threads out there which are a month or couple weeks old, that has about 10-15 schools reported already.

May be that will cut your work down a little

 

[wantVCUdental]

Just made a whole bunch of phone calls:

Called AADSAS 2x, with 2 different operators:
1. NO NEED TO SEND OFFICIAL SCORE THROUGH AADSAS
2. Depends on schools, if the schools ask for official scores, then you need to send through ADA, however DAT scores are attached to all aadsas applications via Dent Pin (I didn't pay ADA, but he still told me that they(AADSAS) have my scores, and that will be attached to my applications to all the schools that i applied to).

Now, calling the schools:

MWU (Arizona) - Don't need to send official score through ADA, AADSAS score is sufficient
ASDOH - Don't need to send official score through ADA, AADSAS score is sufficient
Maryland - NOT SURE, the person who answered the phone didn't know what was going on this year
Minnesota - Don't need to send official score through ADA, AADSAS score is sufficient (though he sounded a little unsure also)
Buffalo- Don't need to send official score through ADA, AADSAS score is sufficient
NYU- Don't need to send official score through ADA, AADSAS score is sufficient
VCU- NOT SURE, I was told: pay ADA to release scores to AADSAS (but aadsas said they already have my scores, and i didn't request it through ADA therefore didn't pay), so i am going to assume that i don't need to send official score through ADA, AADSAS score is sufficient

conclusion so far : Don't need to pay $25/school for ADA to release score

That's all the schools that i applied to and that i could get in touch with this morning, hope this helps. If you guys can also call and further add to what I got, that would make everyone's life easier 🙂
GOOD LUCK EVERYONE

 

[jenbruin]

here's info from another thread:

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=735757

 

[schen140]

uop - no need for separate dat report
ucsf - no need for separate dat report
ucla - they have not decided yet, dont send for now, they will contact you later on if they need it
loma linda - yes, send*

im not sure if the LL person i talked to knew what she was talking about though, she didnt seem to be aware of the new dentpin system. i have to call again sometime to hopefully talk to another representitive