Griffith Dental vs UWA Dental

UCAT-ANZ cut-offs. Griffith Dental — No discrete numerical cut-off published by Griffith — UCAT ANZ Total Score alone decides who is invited to GUDAP. No Tier-1 source supports the "~78th percentile" or "90th+ percentile" figures, so… UWA Dental — no published cut-off.

GAMSAT cut-offs. Griffith Dental — not used or not published. UWA Dental — Graduate DMD: minimum GAMSAT overall 55 with no section score below 50 (same minimum for domestic and international applicants). Shortlisting for interview ranks GAMSAT (or equivalent) and GPA…

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 selection is a combined weighted score of three components — academic attainment, UCAT ANZ and the GUDAP interview — with invitations to GUDAP issued on UCAT ANZ Total Score alone. Griffith publishes no ATAR or selection-rank threshold, and QTAC states that Griffith's Guaranteed Admission Schemes do not apply to this program.

English plus one of Biology / Chemistry / Physics / Maths Methods (Units 3/4, C) is ASSUMED KNOWLEDGE, not a prerequisite — Griffith's degree page lists prerequisites as "NIL" and QTAC's Prerequisites field names only the minimum age requirement and the interview. BDHS is the entry point; the 2-year Master of Dentistry (5703) is the continuation.

No direct-entry BDS or DMD.

UWA Dental requires Two routes. Graduate entry: a recognised bachelor degree with selection GPA (sGPA) of at least 5.5, GAMSAT overall 55+ with no section below 50, and the UWA MMI. School-leaver Assured Pathway (TISC UD056): minimum ATAR 98 (90 for the Indigenous school-leaver pathway), a valid UCAT ANZ score sat in the year of application, and an interview.

The Assured Pathway is not direct entry to the DMD — it awards a conditional DMD place at Year 12 that is taken up only after completing UWA's Bachelor of Biomedicine (Specialised) with the Integrated Dental Sciences major and reaching a selection GPA of 5.5 within the first two years (3+3). There are no mandatory prerequisite subjects in either stream.

Rural and Indigenous pathways run in both streams.

ATAR. Griffith Dental — Griffith publishes no ATAR or selection-rank threshold for BDHS. QTAC renders both the "Minimum Selection thresholds (ATAR/Selection Rank)" and "ATAR/Selection Rank profile" sections for Trimester 1… UWA Dental — no published cut-off.

Graduate-entry GPA. Griffith Dental — not applicable or not published. UWA Dental — Graduate DMD: minimum selection GPA (sGPA) of 5.5 on UWA's 7-point scale — an eligibility floor, not a competitive score. GPA carries 60% of the pre-interview shortlisting rank (against GAMSAT 40%)…

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 (recorded, asynchronous multi-scenario online interview via sammi; no live interviewer); UWA Dental runs mmi, 8 stations × 7 minutes (domestic); two-interviewer panel, ~50 minutes (international). Mock practice tailored to each school's exact format is the highest-leverage prep.

Interview windows: Griffith Dental interviews in 23–27 November 2026 (2027-entry cycle); UWA Dental in Domestic graduate: late September/early October. Domestic school leaver: 30 November–11 December 2026 for the 2027 intake. International graduate: main round May, second round late July/early August. International school leaver: late July/early August..

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, 1577) → 2-year Master of Dentistry (MDent, 5703). No direct-entry BDS or DMD. Both 4-year graduate Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD), 192 points comprising 144 points of taught units plus 48 points of admission credit (UWA Handbook 918

Intake size: Griffith Dental — QTAC: 125 students admitted to BDHS for Trimester 1 2026, of whom 52 (41.6%) were international; UWA Dental — 50 domestic places and 20 international places per year, with up to 50 per cent of places filled from the school-leaver Assured…. A larger cohort means more peer breadth; a smaller cohort means more tutor contact.

Griffith Dental: Not published. For scale only: Griffith interviews around 300 candidates, and QTAC records 125 BDHS admissions for Trimester 1 2026, of whom 52 were international and 42 came from a higher-education background. These are not comparable populations and must not be divided into an interview-to-offer conversion rate.

UWA Dental: UWA does not publish interview numbers or an interview-to-offer conversion rate for the DMD — neither the course page, the 2026 Domestic Health Admissions Guide nor TISC's application/offer statistics report interviews.

What is published: the interview carries 50% of the final rank for non-rural applicants (37.5% alongside a 25% rurality rating for rural applicants), making it the single largest weighted component in both the graduate and school-leaver streams.

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, program 1577) → 2-year Master of Dentistry (MDent, program 5703). There is no direct-entry BDS and no DMD. Co-located with Gold Coast University Hospital and the Griffith Health Centre 117-chair dental clinic.

Selection is a combined weighted score of academic attainment + UCAT ANZ + the GUDAP interview, and QTAC confirms Griffith's Guaranteed Admission Schemes do not apply to this program — QTAC publishes no ATAR/selection-rank profile or minimum threshold for this course, so no ATAR floor can be quoted.

UWA Dental: UWA Dental runs a 4-year graduate Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD) — Western Australia's only graduate-entry dental program. Clinical teaching is based at the Oral Health Centre of WA, a dental teaching hospital at 17 Monash Avenue, Nedlands, on UWA's Health Campus next to the QEII Medical Centre — not the Crawley teaching campus.

Shortlisting for interview ranks GAMSAT and GPA 40%/60%; the MMI then carries 50% of the final rank against GPA 30% and GAMSAT 20%. Strong rural and Aboriginal Health pathways.