The Lyon College Experience

• Applicants are considered on a competitive basis with attention given to the undergraduate grade-point average, with an emphasis on the last 30 credits of science prerequisites, Dental Admission Test (DAT) scores, evaluation by pre-professional advisors and/or university professors, extramural achievements, and interviews conducted by members of the LCSDM Admissions Committee.
• Impacting factors affecting academic performance are also taken into consideration.
• No single criteria carries a specific weight in the School’s comprehensive open-file candidate assessment process.

• View the Dental Admission Test here!
• DAT scores will be considered on an individual basis as part of the overall evaluation of the candidate’s entire academic record, but must meet the minimum requirement of a 370 for Academic Average.
• DAT scores older than five years at the time of application will not be accepted.

Letters of evaluation will be required from applicants. This preference can be met in two ways.

1.  If a candidate attends a school that has a Health Professions Advisory Committee (HPAC), a letter of evaluation from the HPAC Chair or a Pre-Health Professions Program Director/Committee Chair will meet the requirement.
2. Otherwise, two letters of evaluation will be required. Candidates will be informed that these letters should be from science faculty who can evaluate the applicant’s performance and potential for success in dental school. A third optional letter can be from another faculty member in any discipline or from a health professional who knows the student.

• Candidates for admission to LCSDM will be expected to provide evidence of observation and volunteering (i.e. shadowing) at several types of dental practices or clinics such as community health centers or federally qualified health centers with oral healthcare facilities.
• Candidates will be expected to discuss their observations and experiences at these oral healthcare facilities in their essays and during interviews.

• A criminal background check and drug screening will be required components of the final acceptance process for matriculation at LCSDM.

• Lyon Institute of Health Sciences will not charge out-of-state tuition.
• The program runs continuously for three years, divided into six 6-month terms, with tuition and fees of $51,000 per term.

• The minimum requirement for admission into the predoctoral (DMD) dental education program will be 90 semester hours of credit from an accredited U.S. or Canadian college or university.
• The following courses, completed with a minimum grade of C, must be documented on the candidate’s transcript.

English

• 3 semester hours or 5 quarter hours of college-level English.
• Any course accredited by the English Department that fulfills a general education English requirement of a baccalaureate degree will be accepted.
• Remedial or developmental courses or English As a Second Language courses are not accepted.

Biological Sciences

• 12 semester hours or 18 quarter hours of Biological Science are required.
• Includes all Biological Science courses applied toward a baccalaureate degree in traditional science fields, such as General Biology, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Ecology, Immunology, Parasitology and Anatomy & Physiology.

General Chemistry

• 6 semester hours or 9 quarter hours as required for college science majors.
• Physical Chemistry and Quantitative Analysis also satisfy the requirement.

Organic Chemistry

• 6 semester hours or 9 quarter hours as required for college science majors.

Biochemistry

• 3 semester hours or 5 quarter hours of biochemistry are required.
• This requirement is in addition to the Biological Science requirement of 12 hours and may not be used to fulfill the Biological Science requirements.

Physics

• 6 semester hours or 9 quarter hours, as required for college science majors.