School of Dentistry Welcomes Record-Setting D.D.S. Class of 2027

The most academically accomplished incoming class in UCLA School of Dentistry history began its Bruin journey with four days of orientation activities from Sept. 17 to 21, and will join the three continuing D.D.S. cohorts for the start of the 2023-24 academic year on Monday, Sept. 25.

The 88-member D1 class – consisting of 54 women, 33 men, and one who declined to state a gender – boasts an average overall undergraduate GPA of 3.84 as well as 3.81 in science courses. On the Dental Admissions Test (DAT), these Bruins had an average score of 24 (22 on total science and 24 on the perceptual ability test. Both the overall class GPA and DAT score are the highest such numbers since the School of Dentistry began tracking this data in 1999.

The Office of Student Services coordinated orientation week activities for the 59th incoming D.D.S. class in School history. This included presentations from institutional administrators, a school tour, and dialogue sessions with current Bruins. Perhaps the students’ most anticipated moment of orientation was receiving their dental kits, which will be used almost daily in their pre-clinical simulation lab training. Honesty Boone, D.D.S. 27, provided an inside look at the whirlwind of activity on the School’s Instagram account.

According to the 2022 Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, the UCLA School of Dentistry ranks fifth among all dentistry and oral sciences institutions worldwide. For more information on D.D.S. admissions, click here.