UT Health San Antonio 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.

UT Health San Antonio School of Dentistry is a public DDS program in San Antonio, Texas, and it works a little differently from most schools on your list: as a Texas public dental school, it doesn't take AADSAS at all — every application runs through TMDSAS (the Texas Medical & Dental Schools Application Service). Here's exactly what the school has told applicants about its own program, straight from its own pages, with nothing rounded or guessed — and where the school hasn't published a number, we say so plainly instead of filling in a guess.

UT San Antonio dental school stats at a glance

UT San Antonio's average DAT score

UT Health San Antonio's DDS program page displays a "Quick Facts" block that lists "DAT / AA: 20.9" and "DAT / PAT: 20.9," per the school's published class profile. Those read as old-scale (1–30) figures — the page doesn't give a corresponding 200–600 scale value anywhere. It also doesn't attach a specific entering-class year to the numbers; it's presented as a standing class-profile stat rather than something dated to, say, "Class of 2028." Treat 20.9/20.9 as the school's current published average, not a year-stamped snapshot.

If you want to see roughly where a 20.9 AA would land relative to the national applicant pool, our DAT score percentiles guide walks through the ADA's own official concordance and percentile tables, and our DAT score converter will translate an old-scale number to its new-scale equivalent in one click — useful for comparing your own practice scores against what UT San Antonio has published, even without an official new-scale figure from the school itself to compare against directly.

UT San Antonio's average GPA

The same Quick Facts block on the DDS program page lists "Overall GPA: 3.69," per the school's published class profile. There's no separate science or BCPM GPA average published alongside it — a separate admissions-requirements page states only a 2.8 minimum BCPM GPA, and that's a floor applicants must clear, not an average admitted students actually present. As with the DAT figure, no class year is attached to the 3.69 number on the page.

Class size and admission selectivity

UT San Antonio admits approximately 100 students per entering class, per the school's DDS program page, which states both "Students per entering class: 100" and "Approximately 100 students are admitted to each entering class." The school does not publish an acceptance rate. What it does state clearly on its admissions page is a residency preference: "Preference is given to legal residents of Texas. Only outstanding nonresidents will be considered or accepted." If you're applying from out of state, that single line is more informative about your odds than any acceptance-rate figure would be.

Interviews are conducted by a faculty member paired with a third- or fourth-year dental student, and the interview day includes a session on financial aid plus lunch with enrolled students, per the school's admissions page. That format gives applicants direct access to current students on the same day they're being evaluated, which is worth knowing going in.

Application deadline and TMDSAS timeline

Per the school's admissions page, the TMDSAS application period runs May 1 through October 1, with October 1 listed as the "Deadline for submitting applications (TMDSAS Deadline)." October 15 is the deadline for letters of recommendation, and December 1 is the last date to sit the DAT for that same cycle. Because this school uses TMDSAS exclusively rather than AADSAS — standard for every Texas public dental and medical school — make sure you're tracking the TMDSAS calendar and not accidentally following an AADSAS timeline built for a different school on your list.

A few prerequisite quirks are worth flagging before you build your course plan: per the DDS/PhD admissions requirements page, pass/fail-graded courses and foreign coursework don't count toward prerequisite requirements, graduate-level courses don't satisfy the 90-semester-hour requirement, and science prerequisites must come from traditional science departments rather than nursing or allied-health tracks. The school also runs a Dental Early Acceptance Program (DEAP) but is "currently not accepting any transfer students."

Tuition

UT San Antonio's tuition-and-fees materials link out to PDFs rather than a clean, dated cost breakdown, so we don't have a reliable published dollar figure to cite here. Check the school's admissions page for current resident and non-resident tuition for your cycle rather than trusting a secondhand number.

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