The ADEA Division of Dental Education Pathways serves as the gateway to dental education. We are an essential resource for pre-dental students, students in dental education programs, counselors, advisors, admissions officers, and dental educators.
Please visit our educational resources, especially those for future students.
ADEA directs three centralized application services:
- ADEA AADSAS, the Associated American Dental Schools Application Services, for students pursuing a doctorate (D.D.S. or D.M.D.) in dentistry
- ADEA PASS, the Postdoctoral Application Support Service (PASS) for students pursuing advanced postdoctoral dental education
- ADEA CAAPID, a new application service for advanced placement predoctoral programs for dentists who have degrees earned outside the United States or Canada
More than 14,000 students and 500 dental education institutions annually rely on ADEA to provide uniform information about applicants in a standardized format.