La Trobe Dental vs UQ Doctor of Dental Medicine

GAMSAT cut-offs. La Trobe Dental — not used or not published. UQ Doctor of Dental Medicine — Minimum 50 in each section, sat within 4 years prior to the year of commencement.

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.

La Trobe Dental requires 2026 intake (most recent completed cycle).

Standard code 2100211491: highest ATAR 99.95 / selection rank 99.95; median 99.80 / 99.95; lowest offer to an unadjusted ATAR of 95.85 — sources differ on the lowest selection rank, with CourseSeeker and La Trobe's course-page widget showing 99.95 and La Trobe's own Student Profile and ATAR Distribution report (July 2026) showing 99.55.

Regional Entry code 2100211501: lowest 83.65 unadjusted / 99.05 selection rank; median 95.8–95.90 / 99.95; highest 99.95 / 99.95. VCE prerequisite, Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 30 in English (EAL) or at least 25 in English other than EAL. No UCAT-ANZ, no GAMSAT and no ISAT for any applicant group.

Biology or Chemistry at study score 30 adds 2 aggregate points each, maximum 4. VET and work-and-life-experience applicants without an Australian Year 12 or equivalent are ineligible.

La Trobe publishes no place quota, but its Student Profile report gives the Semester 1 2026 commencing cohorts: 59 students on the standard code, of whom 22 (37.3%) were international, and 67 on Regional Entry, with no international students. Next available intake 2027.

UQ Doctor of Dental Medicine requires A bachelor’s degree in health, allied health, physical sciences or biological sciences with a GPA of 5.0 on a 7-point scale; university-level human anatomy and human physiology or cellular physiology completed within the 10 years before commencement; GAMSAT sat within 4 years prior to the year of commencement with a minimum score of 50 in each section; and completion of a situational judgement test in the year of application.

Applications are made directly to UQ, not through GEMSAS.

ATAR. La Trobe Dental — 2026 intake (most recent completed cycle), ATAR-based offers only, across all offer rounds. Standard code 2100211491 — highest 99.95 ATAR / 99.95 selection rank; median 99.80 / 99.95; lowest 95.85… UQ Doctor of Dental Medicine — no published cut-off.

Graduate-entry GPA. La Trobe Dental — not applicable or not published. UQ Doctor of Dental Medicine — Minimum GPA 5.0 on a 7-point scale.

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.

La Trobe Dental and UQ Doctor of Dental Medicine interview in the same broad format, 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: La Trobe Dental runs academic results only on the standard and regional entry codes (no mmi, no interview); first nations australian entry applicants may be required to attend an interview; UQ Doctor of Dental Medicine runs no interview — selection on gpa, gamsat and a situational judgement test.

Mock practice tailored to each school's exact format is the highest-leverage prep.

Intake size: La Trobe Dental — No quota is published. La Trobe's own Student Profile and ATAR Distribution report (July 2026) gives the Semester 1 2026 commencing cohorts at the 1 April census date: 59 students on the standard entry code, including 22 international students (37.3%), and 67 students on the Regional Entry code, with no international students.

CourseSeeker records no student profile for any of the three VTAC codes, so these figures come from La Trobe directly.; UQ Doctor of Dental Medicine — UQ does not publish the intake size for this programme.. A larger cohort means more peer breadth; a smaller cohort means more tutor contact.