University of California, San Francisco Dentistry
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Contacts
Website: http://dentistry.ucsf.edu/
Phone: (415) 476-2737
Admissions e-mail: admissions@dentistry.ucsf.edu
Location: San Francisco, California, USA.
Program Information
- Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS)
- 4 year program
- Joint Programs are available. For more information, click here
Admission statistics
- Total number of applicants in 2016: 2114
- Class size in 2016: 89
- International students are eligible to apply
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Admission Requirements
Course and Degree Requirements
- Degree: Minimum 93 credits completed at an accredited 4-year college/university in any major. A Bachelor’s degree is not required but recommended.
- Required Courses
- English (6 credits)
- Inorganic Chemistry with Lab (8 credits)
- Biochemistry (3 credits)
- Organic Chemistry with Lab (4 credits)
- Physics with Lab (8 credits)
- Biological Sciences with Lab (8 credits)
- Psychology (3 credits)
- Social Sciences, Humanities or Foreign Language (11 credits)
- Recommended Courses
- Embryology
- Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy
- Genetics
- Statistics
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GPA
- Average accepted CGPA of admitted applicants 2016: 3.57
- Science GPA: 3.50
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DAT
- Minimum scores:
- Total Science: 17
- Academic Average: 17
- Average accepted scores 2016:
- Total Science: 21.8
- Academic Average: 21.7
- Only US DAT accepted
- DAT must have been written within 2 years of application and should be written no later than September 15th of application year
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Supporting Documents
- AADSAS Application
- Official transcripts from all post-secondary institutions attended
- DAT
- 3 letters of recommendation
- one from a science professor, one from a dentist with whom the applicant volunteered and one from an advisor, researcher or mentor.
- one letter of recommendation may be sent instead from a member of a pre-professional health advisory committee.
- $75 Registration fee
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Interview
- Students are invited for an interview once the school receives the applicants’ Secondary Application.
- Interviews are conducted by a faculty member and a dental student.
- Typically 250-275 applicants interviewed per year
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Timeline
- September 15: Recommended last day to take the DAT in order for scores to be received on time
- October 15: Application deadline
- December – March: Notifications of acceptance are sent out
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Tuition 2017-2018
- California Residents
- First year tuition: $48,040
- Non-California Residents
- First year tuition: $60,293
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