Dental School List - Minimum Requirements

Below is a chart listing the minimum requirements of dental schools.

Please Note: These requirements are found on the main schools website. They do not necessarily reflect what is shown on the ADEA application or what is really required. This means that just because a school shows N/A does not mean they don't have a minimum, it just means that it could not be found on their school website. Their secondary application that has more information will contain all the requirements and MAY not reflect what you see here or on the school's websites. Use this as a rough guideline only.

Also note that just because there were no information, or there were no minimums does not mean you would be competitive. For example, Harvard has no minimums but their average GPA and DAT is 3.8/24AA.

For LORS:

C = Committee Letter

S = Science Professor

D = Dentist

N = Non-Specified

P = Professor

O = Other

Or = You have two separate options (e.g. 1C or 2S means you have the option of sending 1 committee letter or sending 2 science professor LORS)

/ = You can substitute a letter (e.g. 1C/1S means that you can substitute a committee letter for a science letter)

School	Minimum GPA	Minimum DAT	Shadowing	LORS
AL - University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)	N/A	N/A	50-100 hrs	C or 2L
AZ - AT Still University of Arizona (ATSU-ASDOH)	2.50s	N/A	N/A	1S, 1D
AZ - Midwestern University Arizona (MWU-AZ)	3.0c, 3.0s	18AA/RC/PAT	N/A	1C /1S, 1D
CA – University of Southern California - Herman Ostrow (USC)	N/A	N/A	N/A	2S(BCP), 1D
CA - Loma Linda University (LLU)	3.3s (Highly Recommended)	20 (Highly recommended)	50 hrs	1D , 1C/1S , 1O(Spiritual leader)
CA - University of California Los Angeles	N/A	N/A	N/A	3N
CA - University of California San Francisco (UCSF)	N/A	N/A	N/A	1S, 1D, 1N
CA - University of the Pacific	N/A	N/A	40 hrs	1C or 2S, 1N
CA - Western University	N/A	N/A	30 hrs	1C or 1D, 2S
CO - University of Colorado Denver (UCD)	N/A	N/A	50 hrs	1C or 2S,1D
CT - University of Connecticut (UCONN)	N/A	N/A	N/A	1C or 3N
DC - Howard University	2.85c, 2.85s	18 in all	N/A	N/A
FL - Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine(LECOM)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
FL - Nova Southeastern University (NOVA / NSU)	3.25c, 3.25s	N/A	N/A	N/A
FL - University of Florida (UF)	N/A	15 in all	N/A	1C or 3N
GA - Augusta University	2.8c	N/A	N/A	1C, 1D
School	Minimum GPA	Minimum DAT	Shadowing	LORS
IA - The University of Iowa	N/A	N/A	N/A	3N
IL - Midwestern University (MZU-IL)	3.0c, 3.0s	18 AA/RC/PAT	N/A	1C/1D, 1D
IL - Southern Illinois University (SIUE)	N/A	N/A	N/A	1C or 2S, 1N
IL - University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
IN - Indiana University	N/A	N/A	100 hrs	1C or 2S, 1N
KY - University of Kentucky (UKY)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
KY - University of Louisville	N/A	N/A	40 hrs	1C or 2S, 1N
LA - Louisiana State University New Orleans (LSU)	N/A	N/A	50-100 hrs Shadow and Community Service each	1C or 2S
MA - Boston University (BU)	N/A	N/A	N/A	1C or 2S, 1D
MA - Harvard University	N/A	N/A	N/A	1C or 2S, 1P
MA - Tufts University	N/A	N/A	75 hrs (40 hrs with GP)	1C or 2P, 1N
MD - University of Maryland	N/A	N/A	100 hrs	1C, 1D or 1S, 1D
ME - University of New England (UNE)	N/A	N/A	30 hrs	1C or 1S, 1D
MI - University of Detroit Mercy (UDM)	N/A	N/A	60 hrs with GP	1C, 1D or 2S, 1D
MI - University of Michigan (UMich)	N/A	N/A	100 hrs	1C or 2S, 1N
MN - University of Minnesota	2.7	N/A	N/A	N/A
School	Minimum GPA	Minimum DAT	Shadowing	LORS
MO - A.T. Still University (ATSU-MOSDOH)	2.5c, 2.5s	N/A	N/A	1C/1S, 1D
MO - University of Missouri - Kansas City (UMKC)	3.0c, 3.0s	16 in all	100 hrs in 5 settings, 100 hours of community service in 5 settings	1C or 1P, 1N, 1D
MS - University of Mississippi (UMC)	N/A	N/A	100 hrs with 4 dentists	2S(BCP), 1D, 1O(volunteer)
NC - East Carolina University (ECU)	N/A	N/A	N/A	1C or 2S (1 bio, 1 chem), 1D (in N. Carolina)
NC - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC)	N/A	N/A	N/A	1C, 1D or 2S, 1D
NE - Creighton University	N/A	17 AA/TS/PAT	N/A	1C or 2S, 1D
NE - University of Nebraska (UNL)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
NJ - Rutgers	N/A	N/A	N/A	1C or 2S, 1P
NV - University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV)	N/A	N/A	N/A	1C, 1D or 2S, 1P, 1D
NY - Columbia University	N/A	N/A	N/A	1C or 3S
NY - New York University (NYU)	N/A	N/A	100 hrs	1C or 2S, 1N
NY - Stony Brook University	3.0	17 in all	N/A	1C or 3S
NY - Touro - New York Medical College (NYMC)	2.7c, 2.7s	N/A	N/A	1C or 2S, 1O
NY - University of Buffalo (UB)	3.0c, 3.0s	16 in all (most recent), 15 in all (previous)	75-100 hrs	1C or 2S, 1N
OH - Case Western Reserve University (CASE)	N/A	N/A	N/A	1C or 2S
OH - The Ohio State University (OSU)	3.0c, 3.0s	17 AA/TS/PAT	40 hrs	N/A
School	Minimum GPA	Minimum DAT	Shadowing	LORS
OK - University of Oklahoma (OUHSC)	2.5	N/A	100 hrs	N/A
OR - Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)	3.0c, 3.0s(BCP)	15 in all	50 hrs (25 must be in GP)	1C or 1S, 1D
PA – Temple University Maurice H. Kornberg (Temple)	N/A	N/A	N/A	1C or 2S
PA - University of Pennsylvania (UPENN)	3.2	N/A	N/A	1C or 2P(Major)
PA - University of Pittsburgh (Pitt)	3.2c, 3.2s, 3.2 prereq	19 AA, 17 in others	N/A	1C or 2P, 1N
PR - University of Puerto Rico (UPR)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
SC - Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)	N/A	N/A	N/A	1C or 3P
TN - Meharry Medical College (MMC)	N/A	N/A	N/A	1C or 2S, 1P
TN - University of Tennessee (UTHSC)	2.75	17, 140 sum	N/A	1C or P(does not specify #)
TX - Texas A&M University (TAMU)	N/A	N/A	N/A	1C/2S, 1D
TX - University of Texas San Antonio (UTHSCSA)	2.8s	17AA	N/A	N/A
TX - University of Texas Houston (UTH)	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
UT - Roseman University	3.0s in last 30 credits	17 AA/TS/RC/PAT	50 hrs	1C or 2S, 1N
UT - University of Utah	N/A	N/A	40 hrs	1C/1P/1D, 2S
VA - Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)	2.5c, 2.7s/m	N/A	N/A	2S, 1D
WA - University of Washington	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
WI - Marquette University	N/A	N/A	N/A	2S, 1N
WV - West Virginia University (WVU)	N/A	N/A	N/A	1C or 3S(1B, 1C, 1P) or 2P(1S, 2Major)
School	Minimum GPA	Minimum DAT	Shadowing	LORS

Posted Jun 26, 2020, 7:53 PM UTC · edited

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