DAT Bootcamp vs Princeton Review DAT: Which One Preps You for the Real Exam?

Short answer: DAT Bootcamp was built from the ground up around the DAT's specific format, timing, and quirks, while Princeton Review's DAT course sits inside a much bigger multi-exam test-prep catalog and reads like it was adapted from MCAT and SAT infrastructure. If you want materials that feel like the actual Prometric exam, exam-specific tools generally beat a generalist brand's version of the same test. That doesn't make Princeton Review bad: it just means you need to know what you're optimizing for.

We're the founders of DATPractice, and we both scored in the 97th-plus percentile on the DAT (one of us with a legacy-scale 25 AA and a 30 in organic chemistry, the other with a 27 AA and a 29 Total Science). Obvious disclosure: we built a DAT prep product, so read everything below knowing where we stand. Here's our honest reasoning anyway, because the underlying question: specialist vs. generalist test prep: matters regardless of which company you pick.