University of Florida 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.

The University of Florida College of Dentistry (UFCD) is a public DMD program in Gainesville, Florida. Here's what the school itself has published about the DMD Class of 2029 (2025 entering class), with every figure linked back to the exact UFCD page it came from.

UF admissions stats at a glance

UF's average DAT score

UFCD reports the mean Academic Average DAT for enrolled students in the Class of 2029 (2025 entering class) as 460 on the new 200–600 scale, equivalent to 22 on the old 1–30 scale, per the school's published entering-class stats. The reported range for that class was 390–540 (18–27 on the old scale), and UFCD separately reports a Perceptual Ability mean of 450/21 and a Total Science mean of 460/22. Notably, UFCD publishes these as means for enrolled students rather than a vague accepted-range minimum — and it gives both scales side by side, so there's no guessing which one you're looking at.

If you want to see where a 460 AA (or a 22 on the old scale) actually falls relative to the national applicant pool, our DAT score percentiles guide walks through the ADA's official concordance and percentile tables, and our DAT score converter will translate between old and new scales in one click — useful before you compare your own practice scores to what UF has recently enrolled.

UF's average GPA

For the same Class of 2029, UFCD's entering-class stats list a mean Total GPA of 3.82 and a mean Science GPA of 3.77, per the school's published entering-class stats. The reported range was 3.39–4.00 for Total GPA and 3.25–4.00 for Science GPA — so UFCD's own numbers show admitted students spanning nearly the entire GPA scale, with the mean sitting well above 3.5 in both categories.

Class size, deadline, and tuition

UFCD enrolled 93 students in the Class of 2029 (71 female, 22 male), drawn from 2,153 total applicants — 799 in-state and 1,354 out-of-state — per the school's entering-class stats page. On timing, UFCD's application requirements page states that all application materials, meaning the ADEA AADSAS application, DAT scores, and three letters of evaluation, are due October 1, a deadline the school says takes effect starting with the 2026–2027 application cycle and beyond. UFCD also advises that the most competitive applicants have a completed and verified application by August 1, noting it "consistently receives over half of total applications by the end of July" — worth planning around if you're aiming for October 1 as your real deadline.

For tuition, UFCD's budgets and cost of attendance page lists Florida resident tuition at $41,720 per year and non-resident tuition at $70,848 per year for the 2025–2026 academic year, payable in two installments (August and January), with no tuition charged for the summer semester. One quirk worth flagging: UFCD notes that AADSAS-reported residency isn't the same as UF's actual tuition-residency determination, so out-of-state applicants shouldn't assume the two automatically match.

A few UF admissions quirks worth knowing

A handful of details from UFCD's own admissions pages are easy to miss but can shape your strategy. The DMD interview is open-file, meaning the committee sees your full application, and is conducted in person only, running about 20–30 minutes with 3–4 admissions committee members; interview day also includes lunch with current students and faculty plus a campus tour, per UFCD's interview page. UF also offers an accelerated BS/DMD combined program that completes both degrees in 7 years instead of 8, open to Microbiology & Cell Science or Nutritional Sciences majors; it requires a minimum 3.75 unweighted high school GPA (3.50 science), SAT 1350 or ACT 29, and notably does not accept AP, IB, AICE, dual-enrollment, or transfer credit for any dental prerequisite course, per UFCD's combined-programs page. And per UFCD's requirements summary page, the school has no minimum required hours for shadowing, volunteering, or research, and no formally mandated minimum GPA or DAT score for the standard DMD track — though it cautions that minimum scores "are not typically competitive" and points applicants back to the entering-class stats above.

Bottom line

UFCD's own numbers — a 460 AA / 22 old-scale DAT average, a 3.82 GPA, and 93 seats against 2,153 applicants — describe the entering DMD Class of 2029, but UFCD does not publish an acceptance rate or a firm minimum score cutoff on its admissions pages, so we're not going to manufacture one. Use the figures above as the honest, sourced baseline, and check UFCD's admissions pages directly for anything specific to your application cycle.