Griffith Dental vs UWA Dental

UCAT-ANZ cut-offs. Griffith Dental — No discrete numerical cut-off published by Griffith. 2022 cycle reported lowest threshold ~78th percentile; 2023+ realistic competitive range 90th+ percentile. UWA Dental — no published cut-off.

GAMSAT cut-offs. Griffith Dental — not used or not published. UWA Dental — Graduate DMD: minimum 55 overall with no section score below 50. International applicants may instead submit the US Medical College Admission Test (500 overall, no section below 124) or the US Dental…

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.

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.

UWA Dental requires Bachelor degree with selection GPA 5.5/7.0 minimum; GAMSAT 55 overall with no section below 50 (international applicants may substitute an equivalent overseas admission test); MMI of 8 stations for domestic applicants, or a two-interviewer panel of about 50 minutes for international applicants; rural and Aboriginal Health pathways available.

ATAR. Griffith Dental — BDHS school-leaver ATAR competitive floor 99.85 (GradReady cross-reference). 99+ effective. UWA Dental — no published cut-off.

Graduate-entry GPA. Griffith Dental — not applicable or not published. UWA Dental — Graduate DMD: minimum 5.5 unweighted (UWA-equivalent). 2022 commencement median GPA 6.80.

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 Griffith Dental and UWA 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: Griffith Dental runs gudap — griffith university dental admissions process (multi-station scenario interview, online via sammi); UWA Dental runs multi-mini interview (~8 stations). Mock practice tailored to each school's exact format is the highest-leverage prep.

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

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

Specifics: Integrated pathway: 3-year Bachelor of Dental Health Science (BDHS) → 2-year graduate Doctor of Medicine in Dentistry (DMD). Direct-entry BDS not curr 4-year graduate Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD). Year 1 foundations and pre-clinical simulation at Crawley. Years 2-4 clinical placements at the Oral

Intake size: Griffith Dental — 2025 BDHS intake 69 admitted (QTAC). BDHS → DMD integrated pathway (3+2 years).; UWA Dental — ~36 places annually across all DMD quotas (Direct + Graduate combined; Fraser's UWA 2027). Domestic vs international split not publicly disclosed.. A larger cohort means more peer breadth; a smaller cohort means more tutor contact.

Griffith Dental: Not publicly disclosed. UWA Dental: ~33% interview-to-offer.

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.

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.

UWA Dental: UWA Dental runs a 4-year graduate Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD) — Western Australia's only graduate-entry dental program. Co-located with the Oral Health Centre of WA at the Crawley campus. Pre-interview ranking weights GAMSAT and GPA; the MMI carries substantial weight in the final composite. Strong rural and Aboriginal Health pathways.