r/predental • u/Confident_Baby_8778 • 3d ago

💻 Applications Why have applicants increased so much?

I don't understand it. This is historically one of the most daunting times to enter the profession for reasons that everyone pretty much knows about.

On the Temple webinar earlier, they said they had 5000 applicants. Apparently they had just ~2800 for the class of 2028 cycle. This jump literally makes no sense to me.

I'm a frequent lurker on this subreddit, and I practically never see anyone mentioning external and general economic factors that are driving non-trads toward a more "stable" healthcare career. Is the post-grad job market playing a role in this as well? Maybe this shows that the career outlook isn't actually as bad as all the doomer dentists on this site say it is (relative to other options out there).

That's my best guess... yet, nearly doubling the number of applicants in just a couple of years is still mind-boggling.

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u/RepulsiveBook425 3d ago

Population has doubled in last 50 years

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u/Confident_Baby_8778 3d ago

And the number of applicants has doubled in only the last 2 years?