Admissions at the University of Tennessee College of Dentistry Part 1: Trend in Applications 1977-2015.

This is the first in a series of commentaries related to admission to The University of Tennessee College of Dentistry. Admission to dental school in the current climate is exceedingly competitive-much more so than at any time in history. The purpose of the paper is to examine over thirty-five years of class size and total applications to the University of Tennessee College of Dentistry to gauge competition for admission today versus any time in the past thirty-five years.