School of Dental Medicine

Entrance Requirements

Entrance requirements for this program include the same preprofessional course of study currently followed for entrance into Schools of Dental Medicine and Medicine at Case. A manual dexterity evaluation will be held. The MCAT is required while the DAT is optional. The MCAT should be completed no later than September 12th of the year in which you are applying.

Criteria For Admission

All applicants are considered regardless of major. Prerequisite courses are as follows:

• 12 semester hours of chemistry, of which 6 hours are organic chemistry;
• 6 semester hours of biology;
• 6 semester hours of physics;
• 6 semester hours of English.

The science courses must include laboratory instruction. Suggested predental science electives include comparative anatomy, cell biology, genetics, biochemistry, microbiology, and physiology.

Experience indicates that students likely to be given first priority are those who have achieved superior grades in the basic sciences and who have taken an adequate sampling of courses in the social sciences and humanities to give them a broad background.

GPAs are not considered the only measure of a student’s level of performance in school. Also taken into account is the type of college attended and the relationship between grades obtained and entrance exams scores.