Tufts University School of Dental Medicine: Average DAT, GPA, and How to Get In

Tufts University School of Dental Medicine (TUSDM) is a private DMD program in Boston, Massachusetts. Everything below comes straight from Tufts' own admissions and financial-aid pages, cited line by line — and where Tufts simply doesn't publish a number, we say so instead of guessing.

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.

Tufts average DAT score

Tufts does not publish a class-average DAT score anywhere on its admissions site. What it publishes instead, per the school's admissions page, is a set of explicit "Competitive Scores": Academic Average 420 (old scale 20), Reading Comprehension 410 (old scale 21), Biology 410 (old scale 19), and Total Science 410 (old scale 19). Those are labeled as competitive benchmarks, not as a stated mean or median of any specific entering class — Tufts is telling you what it considers a strong score, not reporting what the last cohort actually averaged. Treat the distinction seriously: a "Competitive Score" line and a published class average aren't the same statistic, even when they get lumped together in third-party rankings.

Tufts average GPA

Tufts' admissions pages don't publish an average or minimum GPA figure for the DMD program either. If GPA context matters for your application planning, check the school's admissions page for the current cycle's specifics rather than relying on unsourced numbers circulating on forums.

Tufts class size

Tufts does not publish an entering-class-size figure on its official admissions pages. Check the school's admissions page for the current cycle if you need that number.

Stats at a glance

Because Tufts doesn't publish a class-average DAT figure, there's no school-specific mean to run against the ADA's percentile tables here — only the Competitive Scores benchmark above. But it's still worth knowing where your own score sits nationally: per the ADA's official normative data, which we break down in full in our DAT score percentiles guide, a 420 Academic Average (Tufts' stated Competitive Score, old scale 20) lands around the 69th percentile of the ADA's national sample. If you tested on the old 1–30 scale or want to convert a score directly, run it through our DAT score converter to see where you land while you wait on Tufts to publish anything more specific.

Tufts application deadline

Per the school's admissions page, candidates applying for the program entering in July 2027 should submit their AADSAS application between May 2026 and February 3, 2027. That's a wide window — the page frames it as the full application cycle for that entering class, not a single hard cutoff, so applying earlier in the window rather than at the tail end is generally the safer play.

Tufts tuition

Tufts' official cost-of-attendance table lists $102,426 per year as the tuition line item for the 2026–2027 academic year, per the school's financial-aid page. That figure applies uniformly to all students — Tufts is private, so the page doesn't list a separate resident/non-resident split the way public dental schools often do.

What else Tufts' admissions page tells you

A few details from Tufts' own official admissions page are worth flagging if you're building a timeline around this school. First, only DAT scores from exams taken on or after June 1, 2024 are valid for the application, and Tufts considers only your most recent attempt, regardless of how many times you've tested — older superscoring strategies some applicants use elsewhere won't apply here. Second, the shadowing bar is specific: Tufts requires a minimum of 75 hours of dental shadowing, with at least 40 of those hours specifically with a general dentist. Third, the academic prerequisites go beyond the standard science checklist — Tufts also requires an upper-level Biology course (such as anatomy, genetics, or physiology) plus a writing-intensive Humanities/Social Science course, and it requires labs for every science prerequisite, per the school's admissions page.