My Dental School Application Current Status

I’ll admit it: this is intimidating.

Putting my successes and failures out for everyone to see is a bit daunting. Showing how many schools I applied to and their final decisions is important, though. People only talk about their highlights, so I believe that discussing all of my results is much more meaningful than only posting about my acceptances.

I cast a wide net and applied to eighteen schools. Let’s just say I really want to be a dentist and decided I’d do anything to get in somewhere.

Here’s the breakdown of which schools invited me to interview, accepted me, waitlisted me, rejected me, and ghosted me.

University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry
Touro College of Dental Medicine
Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine
Nova Southeastern University College of Dental Medicine
University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry
Marquette University School of Dentistry
Western University of Health Sciences College of Dental Medicine
LECOM School of Dental Medicine
University of Louisville School of Dentistry
Creighton University School of Dentistry
Temple University Maurice H. Kornberg School of Dentistry
University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine
University of Maryland School of Dentistry
Tufts University School of Dental Medicine
Rutgers School of Dental Medicine
University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine
Case School of Dental Medicine

Of course I’m proud to have earned so many interview invites and acceptances. If I only talked about my successes, though, I’d be leaving out half of the picture. All applicants have failures alongside their success, so please keep this in mind to stay sane while applying,

I believe I had a successful cycle and could have applied to fewer schools, but I know that only in retrospect. Programs that I felt I had a good chance of getting into didn’t even interview me, while one school I felt was a stretch accepted me. We never really know what admissions committees look for in a candidate from one year to the next, so the cycle can be unpredictable,

Expensive, Time Consuming, and Exhausting

Despite the way I describe my method of applying to many schools, it worked well for me and I’d recommend it to others. I would figure out which dental schools make sense for you to apply to and then hammer out those applications.

After all, don’t these same three adjectives describe dental school?

I’ll admit it: this is intimidating.

Expensive, Time Consuming, and Exhausting

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