Louisville Dental School Interview: Format, Dates, Questions

Louisville describes the day across a few pages:

• The school's story. The 2026-2027 catalog says interviewees get information on the school's goals, strengths, expectations and student performance, and that financial considerations are discussed.
• Faculty and students. Applicants meet with faculty and interact with students.
• A detailed tour. The info sessions and visits page says invited applicants get a detailed tour as part of interview day.
• Your interviews: one or two one-on-ones.

Dress in business professional attire, the FAQ says. Watch your email for the two documents you must return before the interview, and for the response deadline on your invitation, which goes to the email on your AADSAS application. Check your spam folder.

1. ADEA AADSAS, with a December 31 deadline. The traditional admissions page encourages applying much earlier, around June.
2. $65 fee by request. After AADSAS verifies your application, Louisville emails a fee request. Its current page says there is no supplemental application.
3. Casper, required before your application is reviewed.
4. Interview invitations from late July or early August, for interviews late August to February.
5. First offers on December 15. Offers made through January 31 give you 30 days to reply, and offers from February 1 to May 15 give 15 days. The deposit is $200 for Kentucky residents and $1,000 for non-residents.
6. Waitlist. It is not ranked, and Louisville says many students have historically been admitted from it. Waitlisted applicants must email the school to stay active.

Louisville interviews about 400 to 450 applicants a year for 120 seats, and interviews run into February, so applying early gives you more interview dates to choose from.

Ethics and clear thinking

The FAQ names ethical reasoning and critical thinking. Expect at least one question where you have to work through a situation with no perfect answer, and talk through how you decide.

Applicants from everywhere

Louisville takes 120 students a year, and the FAQ says the class typically has about 30 to 35 Kentucky residents and 85 to 90 students from other states and countries. Out-of-state applicants are the majority here. Because residency is decided at the interview stage, have your residency documents and story straight before you arrive.

Service and community care

Louisville's community outreach page says every student takes part in service learning and community-based learning through all four years. Fourth-year students who receive its clinical outreach scholarship do extra rotations at clinics in Paducah, Bowling Green and Morehead.

Digital dentistry

The school's facilities page says students begin using digital scanners in preclinical courses. A school news post says its expanded digital dentistry and 3D printing lab more than doubles the original size.

• Practice conversation, not scripts. Louisville asks for unrehearsed conversation. Know your key stories as bullet points, then practice telling them differently each time.
• Practice ethical reasoning out loud. Name the problem, the people affected, two options and what you would do and why.
• Prepare a "why Louisville" answer that fits a national school. Most students come from outside Kentucky. Point to service learning, the rotations or digital dentistry, not just location.
• Know your shadowing. Louisville requires at least 40 hours in general dentistry. Have one moment from it you can describe in detail.
• Return the two documents early, and bring any residency paperwork the school asks for.

1. Write each of your five key stories as three bullet points, no full sentences.
2. Have a friend run a 25-minute interview from the list above, adding one follow-up per answer.
3. For the ethics questions, ask them to push back on your choice once. Practice holding or changing your view calmly.
4. Record it. Mark any answer that sounded memorized.
5. Two days later, run a second interview with a different friend and different follow-ups.

Practicing alone? Confetto's dental school interview prep runs AI mock interviews that ask follow-up questions based on what you actually said and give rubric-based feedback afterward.

What is the Louisville dental school interview format?

Typically one or two one-on-one interviews of about 20 to 30 minutes each, per the school's FAQ, last dated for the 2023-24 cycle. Check your invitation for this cycle's format.

Is the Louisville dental interview in person?

The FAQ's most recent statement says interviews were in person only for the 2023-2024 cycle. Louisville's current pages don't state the 2026-27 mode as of November 2026, so check your invitation.

When does Louisville send interview invitations?

By email, typically starting in late July or early August, for interviews from late August to February.

Does Louisville require Casper for dental school?

Yes. Every applicant must complete Casper before the application is reviewed. Duet isn't required.

When does Louisville send acceptances?

First-round offers go out December 15, or the nearest weekday ADEA designates.

Applying to other dental schools? See our guides to the University of Michigan School of Dentistry and NYU College of Dentistry interviews, or Louisville's dental school acceptance rate and class stats.

Sources: University of Louisville School of Dentistry DMD admissions FAQs, Traditional admissions process, Admissions criteria and requirements, Info sessions and visits, Community outreach and Facilities and technology pages, and the 2026-2027 catalog.

Confetto isn't affiliated with the University of Louisville. Everything here about the school comes from its public admissions pages, checked in November 2026.

Formats and dates can change between cycles, so go by your invitation email.