This profile is the Advanced Standing (international) pathway.
It is for dentists who already earned a dental degree outside the U.S. and apply through ADEA CAAPID. It is not the four-year predoctoral program, and it is not a residency. See the same school's four-year DDS/DMD profile
Every line below is read from a published record — the program's own entry or its admissions page. No acceptance rates or average scores appear here, because no board publishes them per program.
Hands are weighted as heavily as paperwork here — a bench test is part of selection, so preparation has to include a practical station, not just exams.
Official ADEA CAAPID recordExams they list as required: INBDE, TOEFL.
Official ADEA CAAPID recordCredentials are only accepted through Educational Credential Evaluators (ECE), World Education Services (WES) — an evaluation from anyone else does not count.
Official ADEA CAAPID record
In their own words: “offers internationally trained dentists the opportunity to earn a Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD) degree.”
Program website
Small cohort — 8 (estimate) seats, below the typical Advanced Standing class, so competition per seat runs high.
Official ADEA CAAPID recordLonger than most: 29 months of enrolment, so budget for the extra year of tuition and living costs.
Official ADEA CAAPID record
Closes early — May 5, 2026, weeks ahead of the typical Advanced Standing deadline. Documents have to be ready sooner than for your other schools.
Official ADEA CAAPID recordA separate supplemental application AND its own fee are required on top of CAAPID — missing it voids the application.
Official ADEA CAAPID record
Every figure on this page is taken from this program's own entry in the official ADEA CAAPID directory, last updated March 5, 2026. Verify anything for yourself:
offers internationally trained dentists the opportunity to earn a Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD) degree. This program is designed exclusively for dentists who have completed a Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) or an equivalent degree outside the United States and Canada. ASID-Track students join HSDM in January of the second year of the predoctoral DMD curriculum. They are fully integrated with students in the four-year DMD program, following the same rigorous academic coursework, case-based learning, and comprehensive clinical training. Graduates earn the DMD degree alongside their peers. With small class sizes, individualized mentorship, and a curriculum grounded in the connection between oral and systemic health, ASID-Track students benefit from a highly supportive and collaborative learning environment. Due to the small size of our school, we are unable to offer individual meetings or campus tours for prospective students. Candidates selected for interviews will receive a campus tour led by current students.
- Degree awarded
- D.M.D.
- Program length
- 29 months
- Class size
- 8 (estimate)
- Application opens
- March 5, 2026
- Application deadline
- May 5, 2026
- Program start
- January 4, 2027
- Bench test
- Yes
- Supplemental application
- Yes
- Supplemental fee
- Yes
- U.S. citizens / green card only
- No
Required exams
Transcript evaluation
Educational Credential Evaluators (ECE), World Education Services (WES)
National board notes
- Pass the Official Integrated National Board Dental Examination (INBDE), or National Board Dental Examination (NBDE Part I and II)
TOEFL instructions
- HSDM TOEFL Minimum Scores
- Categories
- Tests Taken Before January 21, 2026*
- Tests Taken After January 21, 2026
- Overall Score
- Speaking
- Writing
- Reading
Letters of evaluation
- HSDM requires 3 letters of recommendation.
- Preferred:
- One Institutional Evaluation Form (IEF) from the Dean of the dental school from which you received your BDS degree or foreign degree equivalent
- Two letters from faculty who supervised your research (Principal Investigators) or taught you in biology, chemistry, or physics. If your BDS program did not offer courses in biology, chemistry, or physics, please submit a letter from someone who taught you in a preclinical (didactic) course.
- Accepted:
- Two letters from faculty who supervised your research (Principal Investigators) or taught you in biology, chemistry, or physics. If your BDS program did not offer courses in biology, chemistry, or physics, please submit a letter from someone who taught you in a preclinical (didactic) course.
- One letter from a U.S. dentist whom you have shadowed or who has supervised you as an employer.
- A fourth letter of recommendation from a recommender of your choosing is also permitted.
This program does not publish a tuition figure in the CAAPID directory, and we refuse to print a guess next to a number as consequential as this one. Tuition, instrument kits, fees and living costs in Boston change every cycle.
Open the cost-of-attendance page on the program's own site for the current figure, and budget separately for the 29 months you will be enrolled.
Open program websiteMaddy Watts
Office of Dental Education Coordinator
Harvard School of Dental Medicine
ASID-Track DMD Program
188 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
- Official ADEA CAAPID directory entry
https://programs.adea.org/CAAPID/programs/harvard-school-of-dental-medicine
Fields taken from here: program length, class size, application open date, deadline, start date, bench test, supplemental application, required exams, transcript evaluator, TOEFL and letter instructions
- Program's own website
https://hsdm.harvard.edu
Fields taken from here: tuition and cost of attendance, curriculum detail, contact details
Verification history
No manual re-check has been logged since the source page itself was dated March 5, 2026. Administrators log every re-verification and it appears here.
Every account below was read straight off Harvard School of Dental Medicine's own website, so you are following the real feed and writing to the real office — nothing here is a look-alike page.
Videos & links about this program
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