Get a high score on the Dental Admission Test. To get into dental school, you will have to take the Dental Admission Test (DAT). This test is given by the American Dental Association. The test has 280 questions and takes five hours to complete. An average score on this test is 19 out of 30. It is taken about a year and a half before you start dental school. Most people take it in the spring or summer of their junior year of undergrad.
- The test contains a lot of questions related to natural sciences, along with reading comprehension and quantitative reasoning.
- A high score on this test is important because dental school is very competitive. For example, some of the top dental schools in the country had hundreds of applicants, but only accepted between 100 and 200.
