Academic Catalog and Handbooks

2024-2025 Edition

Dentistry

Advisors: David Mitchell

Dental schools consider majors in any discipline to be acceptable for admission. Prerequisite coursework most often includes one year of biology, general and organic chemistry, physics, and one semester of biochemistry and mathematics. Upper division coursework in literature and in courses that have an intensive writing component are also typically required.

Admission to dental school is competitive and the admission process considers coursework, grades, performance on the Dental Admissions Test (DAT), dental exposure, manual dexterity, letters of evaluation and personal interviews during the time an applicant is applying to dental school. General information can be found in the CSB/SJU pre-professional health programs web page (http://www.csbsju.edu/pre-professional-health/pre-dental). Additional resources include the American Dental Association web site (http://www.ada.org) and the American Dental Education Association (http://www.adea.org).