Marquette University School of Dentistry prerequisites

2 semesters · 8 credits · lab

Eight semester hours with lab as the baseline expects, but Marquette shapes the content: "Zoology and a course in comparative vertebrate anatomy are preferred but not mandatory", and only four semester hours of botany may count toward the eight. A plant-heavy biology sequence will not fill this requirement on its own.

2 semesters · 8 credits · lab

Two semesters with lab. The DAT's general chemistry section assumes the full sequence.

2 semesters · 8 credits · lab

Two semesters with lab at most schools. A small number accept one semester plus biochemistry; confirm on the school's page before planning around it.

1 semester · 3 credits

Three semester hours, the same as the baseline, with one constraint that catches people out: "This course must be taken at a four-year institution." A community college biochemistry course does not count here, even where Marquette accepts other transfer work. "Laboratory work is not required."

2 semesters · 8 credits · lab

Two semesters, algebra-based accepted essentially everywhere. A handful of schools want only one semester; the two-semester plan covers them all.

2 semesters · 6 credits

Two semesters of English or writing-intensive coursework at most schools that name it.

3 credits

Named by a minority of schools and useful preparation for the first year regardless.

3 credits

Required at a meaningful minority and recommended widely; a strong pick for the spare science slot.

100+ hours

Shadowing dentists. Schools that publish a number most often say 100 hours, and admissions committees read breadth across general and specialty practice. Hours shadowing physicians do not answer this; log dental chairside time here. Across the 77 school overlays, 36 require shadowing, 22 recommend it and 19 publish nothing; the numbers those schools name range from 30 hours to 100, so this baseline figure is a planning floor rather than a common standard.

100+ hours

Few schools publish a number; committees still read for a service habit held over time.

1 letter

Accepted nearly everywhere in place of individual faculty letters where your college offers one.

2 letters

"Applicants are required to submit three letters of recommendation. Two of the letters be obtained must be from science professors", quoted with the page's own typo. The third letter has no named writer. A committee letter may be submitted instead of the three individual letters.

Marquette names no dentist letter. Two of the three required letters must come from science professors and the third writer is unspecified, so a packet with no clinician letter is complete here.