Adelaide Dental vs Griffith Dental

UCAT-ANZ cut-offs. Adelaide Dental — Same UCAT thresholds as for MBBS: ~2730 SA applicants / ~3140 interstate (old /3600 scale, 2024-2026 entry; MedView aggregator). Threshold then composite ranking — Admission weighting: Academic 40% +… Griffith Dental — No discrete numerical cut-off published by Griffith. 2022 cycle reported lowest threshold ~78th percentile; 2023+ realistic competitive range 90th+ percentile.

Timing shapes the choice as much as the score. GAMSAT is graduate-only and sits in March and September; UCAT-ANZ is mostly undergraduate and sits in July. A few schools run their own selection model with no national test at all.

Adelaide Dental requires ATAR 95.00+ (lowest selection rank 2025) plus UCAT-ANZ plus structured panel interview; English and Chemistry prerequisites; rural and Indigenous pathways available.

Griffith Dental requires BDHS school-leaver ATAR competitive floor 99.85 + UCAT-ANZ + GUDAP interview; English + one of Biology / Chemistry / Physics / Maths Methods (Units 3/4, C) prerequisites. BDHS is the entry point; DMD is the postgraduate continuation. No direct-entry BDS.

ATAR. Adelaide Dental — Minimum entry ATAR 90.00. Successful applicants typically ~98-99+ (Adelaide does not officially publish a cut-off). Griffith Dental — BDHS school-leaver ATAR competitive floor 99.85 (GradReady cross-reference). 99+ effective.

Read every ATAR figure as a selection rank, not a raw score. Educational access bonuses, rural-origin uplift and Indigenous pathways all adjust it, so the published number is rarely the one that decides your application.

Both Adelaide Dental and Griffith Dental use MMI interviews, so the underlying prep approach is the same — practise ethics frameworks, Australian health-system topics (Medicare, rural workforce, Indigenous health) and (for MMI) structured station responses against a timer.

That said, the specifics differ slightly: Adelaide Dental runs multi-mini interview (minimum 6 stations × 10 minutes); Griffith Dental runs gudap — griffith university dental admissions process (multi-station scenario interview, online via sammi). Mock practice tailored to each school's exact format is the highest-leverage prep.

Interview windows: Adelaide Dental interviews in November-December; Griffith Dental in 23–27 November 2026 (March 2027 intake).

Both schools deliver a Integrated-style curriculum, so day-to-day study habits will feel similar across years 1-3.

Specifics: 5-year undergraduate Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS). Years 1-2 foundations and pre-clinical simulation at North Terrace. Years 3-5 clinical placemen Integrated pathway: 3-year Bachelor of Dental Health Science (BDHS) → 2-year graduate Doctor of Medicine in Dentistry (DMD). Direct-entry BDS not curr

Intake size: Adelaide Dental — 38 domestic places annually, ~300 interviews (Adelaide degree finder; health.adelaide.edu.au). Bachelor of Oral Health separately offers 32 places + ~90 interviews.; Griffith Dental — 2025 BDHS intake 69 admitted (QTAC). BDHS → DMD integrated pathway (3+2 years).. A larger cohort means more peer breadth; a smaller cohort means more tutor contact.

Adelaide Dental: ~35% interview-to-offer. Griffith Dental: Not publicly disclosed.

Post-interview odds give you the clearest signal of how competitive each school is at the final stage — a school with a 60% post-interview success rate is structurally easier to convert than one at 25%, even if the interview thresholds look identical on paper.

Adelaide Dental: Adelaide runs South Australia's only dental school (est. 1920) as a 5-year undergraduate Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS). Co-located with the Adelaide Dental Hospital — one of Australia's oldest dental teaching hospitals. From January 2026, Adelaide merges with UniSA to form "Adelaide University"; both schools stopped accepting applications on 4 August 2025.

Griffith Dental: Griffith offers a single integrated dental pathway: 3-year Bachelor of Dental Health Science (BDHS) → 2-year graduate Doctor of Medicine in Dentistry (DMD). Direct-entry BDS not currently offered (any historical BDS-direct route is not in current QTAC course offerings). Co-located with Gold Coast University Hospital and the Griffith Health Centre 117-chair dental clinic.

ATAR floor 99.85 (school-leaver competitive) — the second-most ATAR-competitive dental program in Australia.