Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine: Average DAT, GPA, and How to Get In

Numbers below come from the school's own published materials as of July 2026 (each is linked to its source). Admissions stats shift every cycle — treat these as a snapshot and confirm on the school's official admissions page before you apply.

Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine (CWRU SoDM) is a private DMD program in Cleveland, Ohio. If you're building your school list, here's exactly what CWRU has told applicants about its own program, straight from the school's own pages, with nothing rounded or guessed — and where a detail is tied to a specific class year or an older cycle, we say so plainly instead of presenting it as a permanent bar.

Case Western dental school stats at a glance

Case Western's average DAT score

CWRU SoDM's admissions data page reports DAT scores on the new 200-600 AADSAS scale for the Entering Class of 2025 matriculants: an Academic Average (AA) mean of 446.75 (median 440, range 420–462.5) and a Perceptual Ability Test (PAT) mean of 445.84 (median 450, range 410–477.5), per the school's published class profile. The page breaks AA and PAT out separately with both a median and a range, but doesn't appear to publish a separate Total Science mean alongside those two figures.

Wondering what a 446.75 AA actually means nationally? Our DAT score percentiles guide walks through the ADA's own official percentile tables so you can see exactly where any AA score falls in the national distribution, and our DAT score converter translates scores between the old 1–30 scale and the new 200–600 scale if you're comparing to an older benchmark.

Case Western's average GPA

Per the same published class profile, the Entering Class of 2025 had an overall GPA mean of 3.72 (median 3.77) and a science GPA mean of 3.66 (median 3.71). CWRU also publishes 25th/75th percentiles for both: 3.60/3.94 overall and 3.49/3.91 science — so an applicant sitting around a 3.60 overall GPA is roughly at the 25th percentile of that entering class, not below the range entirely.

Class size and admission selectivity

CWRU's admissions data page lays out the full funnel for the Entering Class of 2025: 1,836 applications received, 285 interviewed (15.5% of applicants), and 80 matriculated (28% of those interviewed), per the school's admissions data page. Based on those two published numbers, roughly 4.4% of applicants who applied ultimately matriculated into that class — CWRU doesn't state an acceptance rate directly, so this is our own arithmetic from their published counts, not a figure the school itself publishes.

A few details worth knowing before you apply, straight from CWRU's own applicant checklist: the school does not recognize prerequisites completed via AP, IB, or test-exemption credit, so applicants must retake those courses or take equivalent upper-level coursework in the same discipline. Beyond the standard science prerequisites, CWRU strongly recommends coursework in anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, microbiology, genetics, advanced cell biology, histology, and neuroscience, plus social-science courses like ethics, business, psychology, sociology, epidemiology, and cultural anthropology.

Application deadline and interview process

Per CWRU's official applicant checklist, the final AADSAS deadline is January 1, but the admissions committee begins scheduling interviews starting in August for the following August's entering class, and encourages applying early on a "first-completed, first-considered" basis. Admission requires a personal interview, with invitations issued on a rolling basis based on the AADSAS application and letters of recommendation — first offers of admission are targeted for around December 15, per the school's applicant checklist. For the 2026-27 cycle specifically, DAT scores are accepted only from exams taken between July 1, 2024 and January 1, 2027, and the CASPer deadline is January 5, 2027.

Tuition

Per CWRU's official tuition and fees page, DMD tuition for the 2026-2027 academic year (Fall 2026 + Spring 2027) is $92,760, or $46,380 per semester for students carrying 8 or more credit hours; students under 8 credit hours are charged $2,320 per credit hour. That rate applies across all four DMD class years, and CWRU doesn't appear to list a separate resident/non-resident distinction for the dental program — it looks like one flat rate regardless of residency. Note that this tuition figure is for the 2026-2027 academic year, one year ahead of the Entering Class of 2025 GPA and DAT stats above, since the school publishes tuition and class-profile data on different cycles.

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