Dental School Chances Calculator
Enter your DAT score and GPA to see your admission category — Safety, Target, Reach, or Far Reach — at all 67 US dental schools with published admissions data, best fits first. Shareable link. Based on official admissions data. Your category breakdown and strongest matches show instantly; the full ranked list comes with a free account.
Your Dental School Summary
You're a Target or better at 14 of 67 schools.
DAT 20 · GPA 3.50 · 67 schools analyzed
0
Safety · 0%
14
Target · 21%
39
Reach · 58%
14
Far Reach · 21%
Average admission probability across these schools: 17%. Individual probabilities below account for your percentile vs each school's admitted class and acceptance rate.
Your Best-Fit Dental Schools
Your 5 strongest fits of 67 US schools with published data. Updates as you change your stats.
| # | School | DAT (25/med/75) | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| 57 | Howard University College of Dentistry Washington, DC | 16 / 18 / 20 | Target |
| 58 | Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry Nashville, TN | 16 / 18 / 20 | Target |
| 61 | Western University College of Dental Medicine Pomona, CA | 18 / 20 / 22 | Target |
| 54 | University of New England College of Dental Medicine Portland, ME | 17 / 19 / 21 | Target |
| 62 | LECOM School of Dental Medicine Bradenton, FL | 17 / 19 / 21 | Target |
62 more dental schools scored for DAT 20 · GPA 3.50
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Data from official dentistry school disclosures. Match categories are estimates based on percentile vs admitted-student medians and acceptance rate — they are not a guarantee of admission.
The dental school admissions landscape
What the numbers look like across the 67 US dental schools with published admissions data — and where your stats need to land to be competitive.
21
Median admitted DAT
18–470 across schools
3.58
Median admitted GPA
3.12–3.91 across schools
21+
Competitive DAT
Top half of programs
3.65+
Competitive GPA
Top half of programs
Across these 67 dental schools, the typical admitted student sits near a DAT of 21 and a GPA of 3.58. To be competitive at the more selective half, aim for a DAT of 21+ with a GPA around 3.65+.
Selectivity varies widely: 67 dentistry schools admit fewer than 1 in 5 applicants, while 0 admit more than 60%. The most selective is A.T. Still University - Arizona (2%); the most accessible is University of Mississippi Medical Center (17%).
That spread is why a single “DAT score I need” number is misleading — the same stats can be a Safety at one school and a Far Reach at another. Enter yours above to see the split across every school.
How many schools open up as your DAT rises
Holding GPA at the cohort median (3.58), the number of dental schools where you'd be a Target or better.
| DAT | Target or better | of which Safety |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | 14 / 67 | 0 |
| 20 | 21 / 67 | 0 |
| 22 | 50 / 67 | 0 |
| 23 | 54 / 67 | 1 |
| 24 | 57 / 67 | 2 |
How the dental chances calculator works
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Enter your DAT score
Type your DAT score (range 1–30) into the calculator. Estimates are allowed — you can also enter a target score you're working towards.
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Enter your GPA
Enter your undergraduate GPA (range 2.0–4.0). Use cumulative GPA on the 4.0 scale. Your match categories update immediately.
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Review your match categories at every school
The calculator scores all 67 US dental schools with published admissions data and shows whether you are a Safety, Target, Reach, or Far Reach — best fits first. Safety = your stats exceed 75% of admitted students and the modelled admission chance is 60% or better; Target = at or above the median; Reach = below median but within the admitted range; Far Reach = below the 25th percentile. At highly selective schools strong stats alone do not make a Safety, so those appear as Targets. Your full category breakdown and strongest matches appear immediately; the complete ranked list opens with a free account.
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Instant match categories
Percentile-based scoring vs each school's 25th/50th/75th DAT and GPA.
Calibrated probabilities
Logistic model using acceptance rate — so 'Safety' at Yale Law differs from an open-admission school.
Shareable results
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How categories are calculated
- Safety (75-100): your stats exceed 75% of admitted students and the modelled admission chance is 60% or better.
- Target (50-74): at or above the median admit.
- Reach (25-49): below median but within the admitted range.
- Far Reach (0-24): below the 25th percentile of admitted students.
Beating the admitted median is not the same as being likely to get in. Where a school admits only a small share of everyone who applies, strong stats still leave you short of a coin flip, so those schools are shown as Targets rather than Safeties — in some programmes that means no Safety exists at any score.
Dentistry uses a 50/50 DAT/GPA weighting.