Stony Brook 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.

Stony Brook University School of Dental Medicine is a public DDS program in Stony Brook, New York. If you're building your school list, here's exactly what Stony Brook has told applicants about its own program, straight from the school's own pages, with nothing rounded or guessed. Worth flagging up front: Stony Brook's own official pages don't always agree with each other on the exact figures, and we've laid out both versions below rather than silently picking a winner.

Stony Brook dental school stats at a glance

Stony Brook's average DAT score

Stony Brook publishes DAT averages, but its two main admissions pages don't quite agree on the number. The official Admissions page lists "Year 1 Class Averages" for the 2025 entering cohort as DAT Academic Average 22.9, PAT 21, and Total Science 22.8, per the school's admissions page — and that same page lists the ADEA national average (AA 20.9) right alongside it for comparison. The school's separate DDS-FAQ page, also describing what it calls the "2025 first-year class," gives slightly different rounded figures: AA 23, PAT 23, TS 22, per the school's admissions FAQ. Both pages report on the standard 1–30 Academic Average scale, not the newer 200–600 scale. A third, apparently older page on the site states that "in 2024 our incoming students reported an average DAT score of 21.7," with no AA/PAT/TS breakdown — likely an outdated figure that wasn't refreshed alongside the other two pages. Given the discrepancy, we'd lean on the Admissions page's 22.9 AA as the primary figure since it's the one benchmarked against the national average, but you should read both pages yourself before treating either number as gospel.

Wondering how a 22.9 or 23 AA (old scale) stacks up nationally? Our DAT score percentiles guide walks through the ADA's official percentile tables so you can see exactly where that lands, and our DAT score converter will translate it to the new 200–600 scale for you.

Stony Brook's average GPA

The GPA picture has the same kind of mismatch. The Admissions page's "Year 1 Class Averages" for the 2025 entering class list Total GPA 3.85 and Science GPA 3.82, per the school's admissions page. The DDS-FAQ page, describing the same 2025 class, states that "average pre-dental total science and overall GPA on a 4.00 scale were 3.85 and 3.82 respectively" — which reads as the reverse pairing, i.e. total-science GPA 3.85 and overall GPA 3.82, per the school's admissions FAQ. Because the two official pages disagree on which figure is "total" and which is "science," we're reporting both values with this caveat rather than picking one for you. A separate, older page on the site cites a flat "average GPA of 3.8" for a 2024 cohort, per the school's student page.

Class size and how you apply

Stony Brook keeps a small program: its Courses and Curriculum page describes the school as "distinctive for its small class size (~46)," per the school's courses page, and its About page corroborates that "small class size allows the student to receive highly personalized instruction" without giving an exact figure of its own. There's no specific class year attached to the ~46 number — it reads as a steady-state figure rather than a one-time cohort count.

On requirements: per the school's admissions page, applicants need only 90 completed college credits (three years) to apply, though a bachelor's degree is "highly desirable," and the school requires a minimum of 50 hours of dental shadowing or assisting experience. Per the school's admissions FAQ, Calculus I is a hard prerequisite that Pre-Calculus cannot substitute for, AP scores of 4 or higher are accepted for prerequisites but IB scores are not, and Canadian DAT scores are not accepted. In its first year, the DDS curriculum is also distinctive in another way: per the school's about and courses pages, dental students take the exact same integrated biomedical "LEARN" curriculum alongside Stony Brook's medical students before moving into dental-specific and clinical training.

Application deadline

Per the school's official admissions page, the AADSAS deadline to submit your application is October 1 for the 2026-2027 admissions cycle. Separately, the school's DDS-FAQ page states that "candidates applying by December 1, 2025 ... may be considered for interviews during January and February 2026" — a date that appears to be a supplemental-application or rolling-review checkpoint rather than the AADSAS deadline itself, per the school's admissions FAQ. The two dates coexist on the official site without being reconciled in one place, so applicants should read both pages rather than assume only one deadline applies.

Tuition and cost of attendance

Per the school's official cost of attendance page, 2025-2026 annual DDS tuition is $39,130 for NYS residents and $67,470 for non-residents. The same page puts the estimated 4-year total cost of attendance at $355,737 for residents and $469,097 for non-residents, and it notes that "all rates are subject to change."

A few other things Stony Brook tells applicants

Beyond the numbers, a couple of details from the school's own pages are worth knowing before you apply. Per the school's about and courses pages, first-year DDS students share the exact same LEARN-framework biomedical curriculum with Stony Brook medical students before splitting off into dental-specific training. And per the school's admissions page, the bar to apply is lower than a finished degree: 90 completed college credits plus 50 hours of dental shadowing or assisting, with a bachelor's degree described as "highly desirable" rather than required.

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