New York University College 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.

NYU College of Dentistry is a private DDS program in New York City, and one of the largest dental schools in the country by class size. If you're building your school list, here's exactly what NYU has told applicants about its own program, straight from the school's own pages, with nothing rounded or guessed — and where a figure isn't tied to a specific class year, we say so plainly instead of pretending it's more precise than it is.

NYU dental school stats at a glance

NYU's average DAT score

NYU College of Dentistry does publish DAT figures, but on the old 1–30 scale rather than the new 200–600 scale the ADA now issues scores on. Per the school's admissions FAQ, admitted and matriculating students average an Academic Average of 21, a Total Science score of 21, and a Reading Comprehension score of 22. NYU's FAQ page doesn't attach a specific entering-class year (like "Class of 2029") to these figures — they read as the school's standing published averages as of the 2026 admissions cycle rather than numbers tied to one cohort, and no PAT mean is given at all. Treat 21/21/22 as NYU's current published benchmark, not a guaranteed cutoff, and check the school's admissions FAQ yourself before you apply.

Because that's an old-scale number, it helps to translate it into today's context. Our DAT score percentiles guide walks through the ADA's own official concordance and percentile tables, so you can see exactly where an old-scale 21 or 22 AA lands nationally on the new 200–600 scale, and our DAT score converter converts your own practice scores between the two scales in one click.

NYU's average GPA

Per the same admissions FAQ, NYU College of Dentistry reports a mean Total GPA of 3.61 and a mean Science GPA of 3.51 among admitted students, with a stated competitive range of 3.29 to 3.79. As with the DAT figures, the FAQ doesn't specify which class or cycle these GPA means come from, so read them as NYU's current published snapshot rather than a number frozen to one entering class.

Class size and admission selectivity

NYU College of Dentistry admits an entering DDS class of approximately 380 students each year, per the school's admissions FAQ, which describes it as one of the largest dental school classes in the US. NYU doesn't publish an acceptance rate, but the school's own numbers give useful context on volume: it receives nearly 5,000 applications annually for those roughly 380 seats, per the school's admissions FAQ.

Every applicant who submits materials completes an asynchronous video interview through Kira Talent, per the school's admissions FAQ; top candidates are then invited to an in-person DDS Candidate Day. Interviews run from September through March, and decisions are released on a rolling basis starting December 15, so a complete file early in the cycle can hear back well before the January deadline. NYU also recommends, though doesn't strictly require, a minimum of 100 hours of dental shadowing before applying, per the school's admissions FAQ.

Application deadline

Per NYU College of Dentistry's official admission requirements page, the AADSAS application deadline is January 15 of the year admission is sought. DAT scores must also be submitted by that same date, and per the same page, they must be dated no earlier than three years prior to the application — so an older DAT attempt can age out even if the rest of your file is complete.

Tuition and cost of attendance

Per NYU College of Dentistry's official tuition page, DDS tuition for the 2026-2027 academic year is $111,240 per year. NYU Dentistry is a private school and doesn't distinguish resident from non-resident tuition, so that figure applies to every admitted student regardless of home state. Tuition alone isn't the full bill, though: the same page puts total estimated direct expenses — tuition plus fees, instruments, and insurance — at roughly $123,639 to $124,423 per year, depending on the specific fee schedule for that year of the program.

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