Yeshiva University College 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.

Yeshiva University College of Dental Medicine (YUCDM) is a private DDS program in New York City — and a genuinely new one. It's the first new dental school to open in NYC in over 100 years, since 1916, and it runs an accelerated three-year (36-month), 5,208-instructional-hour curriculum instead of the traditional four-year model, taught in "blocks" where a single cohort focuses on just two or three subjects at a time (per the school's own Catalog and Student Handbook). Because the program only just launched, there's no multi-year admissions track record to report — so this page tells you exactly what YUCDM does and doesn't publish yet.

Yeshiva (YUCDM) admissions stats at a glance

Average DAT score

YUCDM does not publish an average or median DAT score. This is the school's inaugural entering class — the program's first-ever D1 cohort matriculates in 2026 — so there is simply no prior entering-class profile for the school to report, and none could be found on any official school source or ADEA reporting as of this writing, per the school's own Catalog and Student Handbook. What the catalog does say is that DAT results, together with academic performance trend, are the two factors that drive most interview and admission decisions — so the exam clearly carries real weight in how YUCDM evaluates applicants, even without a published number to benchmark against. Check the school's admissions page for anything the school publishes in future cycles.

Since there's no YUCDM number to anchor to yet, the most useful thing you can do is understand where your own score sits nationally. Our DAT score percentiles guide walks through the ADA's official percentile tables on the new 200–600 scale (and the old 1–30 scale), and our DAT score converter can translate a score between scales so you know exactly where you stand while you wait for YUCDM to publish its own class profile.

Average GPA

YUCDM likewise does not publish an average or median GPA, for the same reason: there is no prior entering class to draw the statistic from. The school's official catalog lists detailed prerequisite coursework instead — 90 semester hours total, including English (6 hours), General Chemistry (8), Organic Chemistry (8), Biology/Zoology (8), Biochemistry (3), and Physics (3), with the remainder in electives, per the school's Catalog and Student Handbook. That's the closest thing to an academic bar YUCDM currently states publicly.

Class size

YUCDM plans to enroll 150 students per entering class, beginning with its inaugural cohort in July 2026, per Yeshiva University's own news release announcing the program's launch in Midtown Manhattan.

Tuition

Per the official YUCDM Catalog's D1 2026-2027 cost-of-attendance table, tuition is $98,000, plus $22,000 in mandatory fees and $6,500 for health insurance (waivable if you're otherwise insured), for total estimated direct expenses of $126,500. Adding the school's estimated indirect expenses (housing, food, transportation, personal costs, and books/supplies) brings the total estimated cost of attendance to $178,520 for the 36-month DDS program, per the school's published Catalog and Student Handbook. YUCDM is private with a single flat rate, so there's no separate in-state/out-of-state tuition to compare.

Application deadline

Per the official YUCDM Catalog, AADSAS applications are available online by mid-May and can be submitted starting June 1, with candidates encouraged to submit a complete set of credentials to the Admissions Office before September 1 for full consideration under rolling admissions. Interview invitations go out in early September, formal interviews run from early October through mid-February, and offers of admission begin December 15, per the school's Catalog and Student Handbook. One caveat worth flagging: the inaugural Summer 2026 class ran on a different, compressed timeline — AADSAS admission through February 6, 2026 — because the program had only just launched, so that specific date won't repeat in future cycles.

Things applicants overlook about YUCDM

A few details from YUCDM's own catalog that catch applicants off guard:

• Every applicant sits for a formal, standardized interview scored by Admissions Committee members against a set rubric — it's not an informal conversation, per the official Catalog.
• The D1 curriculum includes required and self-study blocks you won't find in a typical dental school catalog — "Personal Finance and Wellness" (budgeting, loan/debt planning, burnout prevention) and "Art History and Dentistry" (self-directed exploration of dentistry and facial aesthetics in art), plus a longitudinal 12-part "Professional Behavior and Communication" self-study series, per the school's Catalog.
• YUCDM compresses dental school into three years instead of four — 5,208 instructional hours delivered through a "block" curriculum where the entire cohort studies only two or three subjects at once, rather than a full course load spread across a semester, per the school's Catalog.