Case Western dental school acceptance rate

How the Case Western rate is worked out

Case Western publishes its own admissions numbers for the Entering Class of 2025: 1,836 applications, 285 interviewed, 80 enrolled. 80 divided by 1,836 is 4.4%. Source

The school does not publish how many offers it made, so this counts students who enrolled. The share offered a seat is somewhat higher, because some admitted applicants go elsewhere.

Case Western DAT scores and GPA

Case Western reports an average DAT Academic Average of 446.75 (Entering Class of 2025, new DAT scale (median 440)). These are on the DAT's newer three-digit score scale, so they can't be compared directly with the older 1 to 30 scores. Source

Case Western reports an average overall GPA of 3.72 (Entering Class of 2025 (median 3.77)). The average science GPA was 3.66. Source

These describe admitted students, not cutoffs. See how they compare across schools in our average GPA for dental school guide, and work out your own with our AADSAS GPA calculator.

What Case Western asks of applicants

• Case Western asks for at least 90 semester hours of college coursework (at least 60 from an accredited US or Canadian institution, and up to 60 from a community college), including at least 6 semester hours each of general chemistry, organic chemistry, biology, physics and English or writing-intensive coursework in the humanities. Every prerequisite must be completed for a letter grade of C or higher (C- does not satisfy the requirement), and AP, IB or test-exemption credits are not recognized for prerequisites unless you retake those courses or take an equal number of upper-level credits in the same discipline. Source
• Every Case Western applicant must take Casper from Acuity Insights, and the committee won't review a file until those scores arrive. Source
• Case Western lists 2026-27 DMD tuition of $92,760 for each of the four years, before fees. Source

For the courses, DAT and shadowing most schools ask for, see our dental school requirements guide.

The Case Western dental school interview

Case Western requires a personal interview with its faculty or staff before any offer. Invitations go out on a rolling first-completed, first-considered basis from the AADSAS application and letters of recommendation, so it urges applying soon after AADSAS opens on or soon after June 1. While the application deadline is January 1, the committee begins scheduling interviews in August, sends its first offers of admission on approximately December 15 with rolling admission after that, and requires a non-refundable $1,000 deposit applied to first-year tuition to hold a seat. Source

About Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine

• Case Western says it received 1,836 applications for the Entering Class of 2025, interviewed 285 applicants and matriculated 80. Source
• Case Western teaches with its REAL curriculum and says its dental students were the first in the US to learn anatomy with HoloAnatomy mixed reality. Source

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