University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry: 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.

University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry is a private DDS program in Detroit, Michigan. Here's what the school has told applicants about its own program, straight from its own pages, with nothing rounded or guessed.

Detroit Mercy dental school stats at a glance

Detroit Mercy's average DAT score

Per the school's official "Dental Class of 2028 Demographic Profile" infographic — covering the class that matriculated in fall 2024 — Detroit Mercy lists an "Academic Average" of 20 and a "Science Average" of 20 under a DAT heading. Both numbers are on the traditional/old 1–30 DAT scale, not the newer 200–600 scale, and the page doesn't break the score down further into AA vs. PAT vs. total science beyond those two figures.

To put that 20 AA in national context, our DAT score percentiles guide walks through the ADA's official concordance and percentile tables showing where an old-scale score lands relative to the national pool, and our DAT score converter translates your own practice scores between the old and new scales.

Detroit Mercy's average GPA

The same profile lists an "Incoming Total Average" GPA of 3.7 and an "Incoming Science Average" GPA of 3.7. As with the DAT figures, this is tied to the Class of 2028 specifically — Detroit Mercy hadn't published a more recent Class of 2029 profile at the time this page was researched.

Class size and applicant pool

Detroit Mercy's Class of 2028 profile puts total applicants at 2,801 for a class size of 148 students (91 female, 61%; 57 male, 39%; average age 23). Of that class, 51% were Michigan residents, 24% out-of-state, and 24% international or Canadian, spanning 7 countries of citizenship. Detroit Mercy doesn't publish an acceptance rate, so we're not calculating one for you.

Application deadline

Per Detroit Mercy's official admissions FAQ, "the deadline for consideration at Detroit Mercy Dental is December 31. All materials must be received and verified by AADSAS by this date." The school also notes that it runs a rolling admissions cycle where offers can go out starting December 15 — which is exactly why the FAQ itself advises applying well before December 31 rather than waiting until the last day.

Tuition

Detroit Mercy's official "Planning and Program Costs" page lists DDS tuition for the 2025/2026 academic year at $83,620 per year, applied identically to resident and non-resident students since Detroit Mercy is private with no in-state/out-of-state differential. The same page notes tuition and fees are expected to rise roughly 4% per academic year going forward.

What makes Detroit Mercy's DDS program distinct

A few things worth knowing beyond the raw numbers, all per the school's own pages. Starting fall 2025, Detroit Mercy is launching a Vermont clinical track: an annual cohort completes years 1–2 in Detroit, then years 3–4 of clinical and didactic training at a new clinic in Burlington, Vermont, developed with the Vermont State Dental Society. On admissions, applicants must complete 100 hours of shadowing with a non-relative general dentist (D.D.S. or D.M.D.) in the U.S. or Canada — raised from 60 hours starting with the 2025–2026 cycle — plus a mandatory online "Kira" assessment alongside invitation-only interviews. Detroit Mercy also explicitly requires biochemistry and microbiology beyond the standard bio/chem/orgo sequence, and prerequisite coursework must be within 7 years of application.

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