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First time posting on here. My score came out yesterday and was really bummed with my results, I thought I would score a 420 or above. My GPA is a 3.68 and science GPA is a 3.61 (showed an upward trend). I am planning to apply this cycle and I do not want to take another gap year. Thoughts? has anyone with my stats gotten interviews or accepted?

Honestly don’t feel bad about anything but QR. I genuinely don’t wanna study for this again and feel like I hit a wall and will never be good at QR like i really suck at math. Please any advice would be great! I also have low stats like gpa and sgpa.

took basically a month to hear score

This is my results, I studied for 20 days. I know they are not fantastic but I am applying regardless. I am confident in my other materials and if I am to get an interview I’m sure It will give me a huge chance of getting in. I’m curious however what people’s thoughts are on the scores. Any information or advice is greatly appreciated!!!

My first DAT attempt was back in June of 2025 and got a 380 AA. I studied throughout the Summer of 2025, retook it and got a 400 AA in August, and decided to apply with that 400. I managed to get a couple of interviews last cycle, but it was mostly rejections and ghosting.

I decided to retake the exam for a third time a few weeks ago, and somehow managed to do worse on the third attempt and got a 380 again. I feel pretty numb right now, and honestly don't even know how to feel or think right now. I know schools can see every attempt, so I feel like I have an even worse chance of getting in for the 26-27 cycle now that I happened to do worse on my third attempt (unless it's a school that prioritizes the highest score, but even so they can still see that I did worse on my third attempt, so it still may make a big difference).

If anyone can give some advice or words of wisdom regarding getting in with a low score I would greatly appreciate it. I'm low-key kinda traumatized rn, and I don't really wanna study more, especially given the fact that I'm likely going to be starting a masters program in the fall I can also send a full breakdown of my three scores if necessary, but I just didn't feel like typing it all out here. I can also provide a full breakdown of my application to anyone who needs it, but the long story short is I have a 3.5 undergrad GPA with lots of clinical hours and leadership/volunteering experience.

Thanks for any help y'all can provide!

Got my DAT score back today, and I am grateful to say the least!!! I studied for 6 months, ~350 hours total using Booster.

Generally, people say to apply to 10-15 schools, but with this score... is that really even necessary? My science GPA is 4.0 and overall GPA is 3.94. The only part I would say is lacking in my application (in comparison to others) is that my shadowing hours are not insane (~160 hrs, I decided I wanted to go to dental school a year ago lol).

Also feel free to ask any questions about my study strategies/etc.

I have been on this Reddit through my whole DAT journey. Thanks to everyone who posts breakdowns and answers questions because it was immensely helpful. Now I feel like it’s my turn… I was expecting around a 400-420 so was thrilled at the score. Literally ask anything, there was so many questions I had but chose not to ask so I’m here to help! (Also QR just sucks lol)

My scores aren’t really superb regarding that I’ve been in the testing center twice before this one & never took a FL practice while studying but overall just happy that I broke the 500AA barrier
I’m concerned on a couple of things actually— 1) My previous attempt was a 470AA 460TS 450PAT, so my PAT lowered a bit this time not to mention my OC going down from 480 last time to a 430. Wonder would this be taken into any consideration by schools bc I’m applying this cycle. 2) I’m also an international student without even a green card and my GPA is also in a somewhat “meh” range (3.71 cgpa 3.60 sgpa) so hoping whether my DAT score would offset my weakness in terms of stats

++ also feel free to ask me anything!!