Total # of applicants

[scott11]

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Does anyone know an estimate of the total # of dental applicants each year? It seems that with all the new dental schools opening, getting accepted is not that difficult. This last year Midwestern and USN opened and added about 150 seats and now this year it looks like Florida is opening a school with 100 seats, USN and Midwestern will both "up" their seat total and I think there are one or two other schools opening.

Sure this is great for applicants, it will be much much easier to get accepted somewhere but does it scare any of you? It seems that there are already so many dentists. Sure everyone says all the "baby boomer" dentists are retiring soon but guess what?... They aren't! My dad is a dentist and I know plenty that are his same age. With the way the economy is they all say they will be working an extra 10 years or so... It scares the crap out of me!

 

[dentalWorks]

Does anyone know an estimate of the total # of dental applicants each year? It seems that with all the new dental schools opening, getting accepted is not that difficult. This last year Midwestern and USN opened and added about 150 seats and now this year it looks like Florida is opening a school with 100 seats, USN and Midwestern will both "up" their seat total and I think there are one or two other schools opening.

Sure this is great for applicants, it will be much much easier to get accepted somewhere but does it scare any of you? It seems that there are already so many dentists. Sure everyone says all the "baby boomer" dentists are retiring soon but guess what?... They aren't! My dad is a dentist and I know plenty that are his same age. With the way the economy is they all say they will be working an extra 10 years or so... It scares the crap out of me!

Over the past couple of years... number of applicants is between 12-13,000. Just 5-6 years ago, it was around 8k.

I don't think it will ever get past 13k tho.... dental tuition is sky rocketing (300-400k debt isn't uncommon).... I believe in the upcoming 5-10 years, dentistry's competition will reduce for reasons like too much debt, over saturation of GP dentists in major cities, average starting salary of associates being in the low 100s (maybe even less).

 

[NYOD]

of all those applicants, how many ultimately end up matriculating? 10-15%?

 

[jntm46]

of all those applicants, how many ultimately end up matriculating? 10-15%?

I would say its around 40% that gets in to dental school.

 

[rockclock]

I would say its around 40% that gets in to dental school.

agreed. about 5000 seats total per year at all the dental schools combined...

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=810649

 

[dentalWorks]

with the new schools opening up, and existing schools adding new seats.... Its getting near 5000 now (maybe slightly higher)

I know 5 years ago, detroit Mercy's class was about 75 student. This year, its 95. Pretty much all schools are adding more seats (how could they not? schools charge 50-60k+ per year worth of tuition, its a money making business for them to accept more)

 

[NYOD]

40% 😱

doesn't that number seem a bit high? that definitely adds some perspective.

 

[notin]

adding more schools only makes it easier to get in if the average accepted GPA/DAT go down. % accepted alone doesn't mean much.

 

[dds chgo]

adding more schools only makes it easier to get in if the average accepted GPA/DAT go down. % accepted alone doesn't mean much.

% accepted is all that matters. The GPA/DAT average scores depends on % of applicants accepted. If it goes up to 50%, then all you need to do is score in top half of test takers.

 

[bing12]

40% 😱

doesn't that number seem a bit high? that definitely adds some perspective.

U.S medical schools have an acceptance rate of 44%

Look at Chart 3 in attachment

 

[Doc Smile]

 

[notin]

% accepted is all that matters. The GPA/DAT average scores depends on % of applicants accepted. If it goes up to 50%, then all you need to do is score in top half of test takers.

The quality of the applicant pool is all that matters, and the best measure of that is GPA/DAT stats. Consideration of % accepted is completely unnecessary as any impact it has on the average accepted GPA/DAT will be demonstrated by a change in said average accepted GPA/DAT. As demonstrated by medical school accepting 44% of applicants but being considerably harder to be accepted at than dental school.