University of Washington 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.

University of Washington School of Dentistry is a public DDS program in Seattle, Washington. Here's what the school itself has published about admissions, class composition, timelines, and cost, with every figure linked back to the exact UW page it came from.

UW admissions stats at a glance

UW's average DAT score

University of Washington School of Dentistry doesn't publish an average or minimum DAT score anywhere on its official admissions pages — not on Fast Facts, Requirements, or How-To-Apply. If you're looking for a specific published DAT figure for UW, there isn't one on the record; check the school's admissions page for the current cycle.

Since UW doesn't give you a number to benchmark against, national percentile context is the next best thing. Our DAT score percentiles guide walks through the ADA's official concordance and percentile tables on both the old 1–30 scale and the new 200–600 scale, and our DAT score converter will translate a score between scales in one click — useful when a target school hasn't published its own average.

UW's average GPA

Likewise, UW does not publish an average or minimum GPA for an entering class on its official admissions pages. There's no science-GPA or overall-GPA figure to report here — the school's published materials simply don't include one, so use the admissions page to confirm whatever qualitative guidance applies to your cycle.

Class size, deadline, and tuition

UW's How-To-Apply and Requirements pages describe the entering class as "71 students," with 85–90% Washington residents and 10–15% from WICHE states — a standing target, not a single-year headcount. The school's separate Fast Facts page reports the actual Class of 2028 (Summer 2024 cycle) matriculation at 63 students — 34 female, 29 male, 53 Washington residents (84%) — out of 976 applicants. Both figures are published by UW, so we're reporting both rather than picking one.

On timing, the same How-To-Apply page states the ADEA AADSAS application deadline is "November 1 at 9:00 PM PST," and the DAT itself must also be completed by November 1, since scores reported after that date aren't considered. UW then runs rolling admissions: Admissions Committee decisions go out continuously from December 1 to approximately March 1, with applications opening mid-May via ADEA AADSAS.

For tuition, UW's Projected Costs page lists 2025–2026 first-year tuition and required fees at $59,226 for Washington residents (rising to roughly $68,272 by the 2nd/3rd year) and $84,926 for non-residents (rising to roughly $98,135 by the 2nd year and holding). Those figures cover tuition and required UW fees only — not equipment, books, or room and board — and UW notes the amounts are "subject to change without prior notification."

A few UW admissions quirks worth knowing

A handful of details from UW's own admissions pages are easy to miss but can affect your application. Required prerequisite science courses — general chemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, physics, biology/zoology, and microbiology — must be lecture courses, not lab courses, per UW's Requirements page. Interviews, held in person in the fall, are extended to roughly 150–200 of the 1,000+ applicants UW receives annually, per the How-To-Apply page. And UW offers the RIDE (Regional Initiatives in Dental Education) track, run jointly with Eastern Washington University in Spokane: after an orientation/summer quarter in Seattle, RIDE students complete years 1–2 in Spokane, year 3 clerkships in Seattle, and year 4 split between Seattle and rural community health center rotations, graduating with the same UW DDS degree, per UW's RIDE program page.

Bottom line

UW's own admissions pages don't give you a DAT or GPA number to hit — what they do give you is a target class size of 71 (63 actual for the Class of 2028), a hard November 1 AADSAS and DAT deadline, and rolling decisions through early March. We're not going to manufacture an average DAT or GPA figure that UW hasn't published; use what's above as the honest, sourced baseline, and check UW's admissions pages directly for anything specific to your cycle.