DMD Current Students

Admission is open to current Messiah University students prior to the start of their junior year who meet or exceed the application requirements for LECOM. (Note: This means that applicants must have a total four years of college credits prior to entering this program.  In some cases, students who enter Messiah with a full year’s worth of college credits, or take additional credits while at Messiah, may actually graduate in three years prior to entering this program.)

• Application is initiated by the current Messiah University student through this LECOM link.
• Messiah applicants are required to interview prior to the start of their junior year. Interviews are conducted by a LECOM representative and must be in-person; either on a LECOM campus, in an offsite location or by videoconferencing.
• Interested students should contact Martha Stigelman, Coordinator of Pre-Health Professions Advising for their EAP enrollment requirements.
• Students accepted into the LECOM EAP DMD program as Messiah students will receive a provisional acceptance letter to this program.
• In order to maintain their LECOM EAP provisional accepted status, Messiah students will be expected to meet the GPA and shadowing criteria, submit all required information to LECOM in a timely manner, and to participate in the “keeping in touch” activities initiated by LECOM 
• Applicants must be U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents.

Required Minimum Undergraduate Courses

• 6 Semester Credit Hours of English; composition emphasizing technical language
• 8 Semester Credit Hours Biology including two labs
• 8 Semester Credit Hours Inorganic/General Chemistry including two labs
• 8 Semester Credit Hours Organic Chemistry including two labs
• 3 Semester Credit Hours Biochemistry

Strongly Recommended Courses (Taken prior to LECOM matriculation:)

• 4 Semester Credit Hours Physiology
• 4 Semester Credit Hours Physics including lab
• 4 Semester Credit Hours of Anatomy including lab
• 4 Semester Credit Hours of Microbiology including lab
• 3 Semester Credit Hours of Cell Biology
• 3 Semester Credit Hours of Histology
• 3 Semester Credit Hours of Immunology
• 3 Semester Credit Hours of Genetics

DAT:

• The Dental Admission Test (DAT) is required to be taken after junior year at Messiah University.
• Overall scores in the area of 19 or higher will be expected for the Academic Average, Reading Comprehension and Perceptual Ability sections.
• Overall score of 18 or higher required for the Science section.

Requirements to Matriculate to LECOM:

At the time of graduation from Messiah Unviersity, students must reach or exceed the following benchmarks:

• Overall cumulative GPA of 3.4/4.0;
• Cumulative science GPA of 3.2/4.0;
• The Dental Admission Test (DAT) is required to be taken after junior year at Messiah University.
• Overall scores in the area of 19 or higher will be expected for the Academic Average, Reading Comprehention Comprehension and Perceptual Ability sections.
• Overall score of 18 or higher required for the Science section.
• 100 hours of dental-related experience. 

• The time that it takes a student to earn his/her undergraduate degree from Messiah University varies. Some students are able to complete the degree in three (3) years depending on a variety of factors including summer school attendance, AP test scores and college dual-enrollment during high school.
• Regardless of the timing, the undergraduate degree must be completed prior to matriculating at LECOM.
• Most DMD EAP students major in biology, chemistry, biochemistry. With early and careful planning, other major choice may be appropriate. See Martha Stigelman for further details. 

• A grade of at least 'C' is required to transfer prerequisite coursework.
• No required class should be taken P/F
• Required classes should be taken at Messiah University unless approval is granted.
• Messiah requires at least 100 hours of documented dentistry-related experience must be completed at the time of matriculation to LECOM.
• Students accepted into this program must be enrolled at Messiah as full-time students for at least two consecutive years immediately preceding matriculation at LECOM.
• This program is open to transfer students.
• Provisionally accepted students may not apply to any other dental school. Application to another dental school will result in the loss of the student’s provisional acceptance.
• LECOM will try to honor students’ choice of campus if multiple campus choices are offered.