ADEA AADSAS Agreement Statements

In this section, you must review and respond to the following release statements in order to submit your application. Please review these instructions and the content of the statements carefully. It is your responsibility to read and understand these statements before responding to them. If you have any questions regarding these statements, contact customer service at 617-612-2045 for clarification before making your selections.

Click the checkbox to confirm that you give permission for ADEA AADSAS to release your application materials to the programs that you designate. Each program may use your application information for admission purposes and otherwise in accordance with such program's policies. For information regarding a program's policies, see the program's website or contact the program directly. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, ADEA AADSAS excludes all liability arising from the use of your information by any program.

Selecting Yes for this release authorizes ADEA AADSAS to release your legal name and contact information to your selected programs before you submit your application. Your programs will be able to send you important information about their admissions process before you complete your application.

Selecting Yes for this release allows ADEA AADSAS to release certain information to health profession advisors and health profession advisory committees at schools you previously attended. This information includes some application information, including your GPA, the names of the dental programs to which you applied, and which program, if any, you matriculate into. They will not see documentation such as transcripts or letters of evaluation.

If you select No, ADEA AADSAS will not release your information to advisors. We encourage you to authorize this release, as it is useful to advisors assisting you and other future applicants; however, it will not affect the consideration given to your application.

Click the checkbox to confirm your agreement with additional usage terms.

• Access and Review of Evaluations: Under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), unless you choose to waive your right to inspect and review confidential letters and confidential statements of recommendation, you may have a right to access such letters and statements submitted with your application after you begin attendance at a dental school if that school saves such letters and statements post-enrollment. Even if you have not waived your right to inspect and review such letters and statements, FERPA does not give you the right to inspect and review such records submitted to a school until you are admitted to and attending that school. ADEA does not provide applicants access to such letters and statements; only school(s) can provide such access, but access is not guaranteed.
• No Agent Relationship: The role of ADEA AADSAS in the collection and transmission of information and materials does not mean that ADEA is your agent or an agent of any school. ADEA has no authority to alter or waive any requirement of any school. Any disputes you have with a school must be resolved directly with that school.
• Direct Contact Only: If you need information regarding your application or your use of ADEA AADSAS, you should contact ADEA Customer Service directly (i.e., your parents and/or spouse should not contact ADEA regarding your application or use of ADEA AADSAS).
• No Return of Application Materials: Application materials submitted to ADEA AADSAS will not be released or returned to you, including confidential letters and confidential statements of recommendation submitted on your behalf regardless of your response to the FERPA waiver.
• Right to Investigate: ADEA and the schools that you designate to receive your application materials may investigate application information.
• Disclosure of Status: Beginning March 1 of each year, if you hold offers at more than one school, your status will be disclosed to all other schools that you designated to receive your application materials and may result in offers being changed or revoked, as outlined in the ADEA AADSAS® Guidelines for Dental Schools When Extending Offers of Admission.
• Refunds: In the event of any errors or omissions related to the handling or processing of your application by ADEA AADSAS, your sole and exclusive remedy is to request a refund from ADEA in accordance with the ADEA CAS Refund Policy. A refund is not guaranteed and refund requests are reviewed at ADEA’s discretion. Errors or omissions that are your responsibility are not subject to refund in a current or future application cycle.
• Communications from ADEA: ADEA's primary methods of communication to applicants regarding ADEA AADSAS matters are via email and text. You are responsible for providing ADEA with up-to-date and accurate contact information.
• Use and Disclosure of Application Information: ADEA may use and disclose your application information in accordance with the ADEA Privacy Policy. You acknowledge that your application information may be (i) used for research, applicant tracking and reporting purposes by ADEA and (ii) shared with third parties, including tuition assistance services, that are involved in the application and admissions process. In addition, if you opt-in to participate in research being conducted by third parties that is related to the application and admissions process, ADEA may share your application information with such third parties.
• Program Materials: Information and other content requested from you in the Program Materials section of ADEA AADSAS is determined by each program. ADEA is not responsible for, and assumes no liability for, such requests, including whether such requests comply with applicable state or federal laws.
• No Warranties: ADEA AADSAS IS PROVIDED "AS IS." ADEA MAKES NO WARRANTIES REGARDING ADEA AADSAS AND DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR WARRANTIES ARISING BY COURSE OF DEALING OR CUSTOM OR TRADE.
• Limitation of Liability: IN NO EVENT SHALL ADEA BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO YOUR USE OF ADEA AADSAS. THE LIABILITY OF ADEA FOR BREACH OF THIS AGREEMENT OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO YOUR USE OF ADEA AADSAS SHALL NOT EXCEED TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS ($2,000). THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SHALL APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
• Miscellaneous: The laws of Washington, DC (USA) shall govern this agreement, without reference to its choice of law rules. You agree that any suit, action, or proceeding arising out of or relating to this agreement shall be instituted only in a court sitting in Washington, DC (USA). You hereby waive any objection to, and irrevocably submit to the jurisdiction of, any such court. If any provision of this agreement is deemed unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. ADEA's failure to enforce the strict performance of any provision of this agreement will not constitute a waiver of ADEA's right to subsequently enforce such provision or any other provisions of this agreement.