APPLICATION PROCEDURE

All applications to the UMDNJ-New Jersey Dental School are filed through the American Dental Education Association's Application Service (AADSAS). Applications may be filed from May 15 of the year prior to the one in which the student plans to enter dental school. Check the AADSAS instruction booklet for the application filing deadline. Prospective applicants should request an Application Request Card for AADSAS as well as other information from:

AADSAS

Complete the application electronically via the web

http://www.adea.org
1-800-353-2237

NO SUPPLEMENTAL APPLICATION IS REQUIRED
The New Jersey Dental School does not use a supplemental application, however there is a $75.00 application fee made payable to UMDNJ for the processing of your application. The $75.00 application fee should be sent directly to the school when contacted by an Admissions Officer. New Jersey Dental School Office of Admissions, Room B830 110 Bergen Street Newark, NJ 07101

Limited supplies of printed applications for the dental application cycle are available at the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) central office. Applicants are now able to download, and print, paper applications from the ADEA web-site: http://www.adea.org/AADSAS/default.htm

Applications may be submitted prior to the completion of predental education. Provisional acceptance may be granted contingent upon satisfactory completion of all prerequisite courses. However, Dental Admissions Test Scores must be available before any admissions decision will be made. Students wishing to have a final decision on their application by December 1 must have their applications completed and received at the UMDNJ-New Jersey Dental School by October 1.

A completed application consists of the AADSAS application folder, all required credentials (see AADSAS Instruction Booklet) and Dental Admissions Test scores. A student may be interviewed without Dental Admissions Test scores. However the score must be submitted to NJDS Admissions Office prior to Dec. 1, to be eligible for the first cycle of notification letters. After December 1^st admission to the New Jersey Dental School is on a rolling basis.

Since there may be several weeks between the time an application is filed with AADSAS and the time it is received by the dental school, early application is advisable.

THE DENTAL SCHOOL IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DELAYS IN AADSAS'S PROCESSING OF THE APPLICATION, WHETHER DUE TO THEIR ERROR OR STUDENT ERROR. All credentials submitted to the New Jersey Dental School to support an application for admission become the property of the Dental School and will not be returned.

DENTAL ADMISSIONS TEST

All schools require incoming students to have Dental Admission Test (DAT) Score Reports. The American Dental Association administers the DAT. For questions about the DAT contact:

DAT Program
Dept. of Testing Services
American Dental Association
211 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60611
(800) 621-8099 or (312) 440-2687

Review for the DAT

INTERVIEWS

Applicants are interviewed only at the invitation of the Admissions Committee. An interview will not be granted at the request of the student. No candidate will be accepted without an interview.

All candidates are informed in writing of the action taken on their applications. The time for sending rejection notices is set at the discretion of the Admissions Committee. Acceptance notices are sent out beginning December 1.

DEANS CERTIFICATION LETTER / BACKGROUND CHECK

Please be advised that an offer of admission will not be final and enrollment not permitted until the enrollment certification and criminal background check are completed with results deemed favorable by UMDNJ.