Personal Information

• Agreement statements: read and accept ADEA CAAPID’s release statement.
• Biographic information: name, sex, date and place of birth. Your date of birth must be here for official test scores to match your application.¹⁰
• Contact and citizenship: the address programs will use, your country of citizenship, residency and visa status.
• Other Information: this is where you enter your DENTPIN, the languages you speak, any licence infraction and any relatives in oral health.⁷

Spell your name exactly as it appears on your INBDE and TOEFL records. A hyphen or apostrophe that differs stops scores from posting automatically.¹⁰

Academic History

• Colleges Attended and Dental School Details: every college and your dental school and degree. ADEA requires all college, university and graduate transcripts.³
• Credential evaluation (ECE or WES): foreign transcripts are not accepted on their own. You need a course-by-course US equivalency report from ECE or WES, sent electronically. Order it from inside the application: Colleges Attended, then Academic Records, then Order next to your dental school.⁸ Each program may prefer one service, so check the Program Finder. Our WES vs ECE guide and credential evaluation checklist walk you through it.
• ADA standardized tests: say whether you have taken or plan to take the INBDE or NBDE. Most CAAPID programs require National Board results.³ Request them on the ADA site with your DENTPIN and pick ADEA CAAPID as the recipient. They arrive within five business days.⁹
• TOEFL: self-report your score and Test Registration ID, then have ETS send official scores to code B451. TOEFL iBT and the Home Edition are both accepted. Paper copies are not.¹⁰

Supporting Information

• Evaluations (letters): you can list up to 3 evaluators. They upload their letters through Liaison Letters, typed on official letterhead and signed. Some programs want more than 3; check Program Materials.¹⁴ See who to ask for letters.
• Experiences: dental work, employment, research, teaching, volunteering and more, with hours per week and a supervisor who can verify it. You can star up to 4 as most important. Do not count the same hours twice.¹⁵
• Achievements, Licenses, Other Relevant Information: awards, your dental licence and anything else relevant. There is no section for CE certificates; programs ask for them separately if they want them.³
• Personal statement: one general essay that goes to every program, up to 5,200 characters including spaces. Formatting is stripped, so separate paragraphs with a double return. It cannot be edited after you submit.¹⁶ Read our personal statement guide first.
• Documents: upload your dental degree diploma and an official US translation, scanned into one file.¹⁷

Program Materials (program selection)

• Each program you selected shows its own deadline, requirements, questions and documents here.⁷
• This is where programs that want a CV or resume ask for it. There is no general CV upload button. See our CAAPID CV guide and how to enter CV details step by step.
• Most Advanced Standing programs also charge their own supplemental fee, paid directly to the school.¹¹
• Research every program in the ADEA CAAPID Program Finder. Not all Advanced Standing programs use CAAPID, and some have citizenship or residency conditions.