2027 Entry Requirements & Interview Format
University of Sydney in Sydney, NSW runs a school-leaver and graduate-entry medicine program for 2027 entry. Admission tests listed: GAMSAT and MCAT. Published hurdles: GPA — minimum 5.0/7.0 weighted GPA (4.5 for rural applicants); GAMSAT — hard minimum 50 in each of the three sections (USyd MD Admissions Guide). Sydney lists no interview on its standard entry route.
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Step-by-step: entry requirements, admission-test prep, personal statement, interview format and the key deadlines.
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Read the guide →Integrated + Team-based learning, 4 years (graduate entry), placements in Sydney teaching hospitals, Dubbo, Orange, Lismore and Broken Hill.
See the course →Sydney offers a research-intensive 4-year graduate MD anchored at Royal Prince Alfred, Westmead, Concord, and Nepean clinical schools, with a substantial 14-week research project in year 3, a full pre-internship year 4, and placements spanning the Central (RPA), Children's Hospital Westmead, Concord, General Practice, Nepean, Northern and Westmead clinical schools plus the School of Rural Health at Dubbo and Orange, where a 24-place Dubbo stream teaches the entire four-year MD.
Sydney runs a 4-year graduate-entry MD (a masters-level degree, CRICOS 079216J) with a substantial 14-week research project in year 3 and a full pre-internship year 4.
The standard Metropolitan pathway is GAMSAT section ranking with no interview, but the Dubbo stream (24 CSP-only places, the whole four-year MD taught at the School of Rural Health in Dubbo) adds a rural-motivation personal statement and an interview that counts toward ranking.
School leavers can enter through the Double Degree Medicine Program (BA/MD or BSc/MD, 7 years, ATAR 99.95, no admission test, online Assessment Day of group interview plus written assessment), progressing to the MD without GAMSAT or a further interview if they finish the bachelor's in minimum time with a credit average.
The Indigenous Facilitated Entry Scheme, overseen by the Indigenous Admissions Advisory Group, relaxes the GPA floor to support improvement trajectories and waives GAMSAT entirely from 2027 entry.
Integrated curriculum. 4-year graduate MD. Eight vertical themes run across all four years: basic and clinical sciences; clinical skills; diagnostics and therapy; research, evidence and informatics; population health; Indigenous health; ethics and law; professionalism and interprofessional teamwork.
Hands-on clinical experience begins as early as the second week, students complete a minimum of 2,310 hours of professional placement and a 14-week research project in year 3, and the whole of year 4 runs as a pre-internship. Assumed knowledge on entry is anatomy, physiology and molecular/cellular biology, supported by a compulsory online Foundation Knowledge Course after enrolment.
Two streams, Metropolitan (Sydney) and Dubbo; transfer between them is not permitted.
Sydney is strong in these research areas:
Format: No interview on the standard Metropolitan (Sydney) graduate pathway - ranking is on individual GAMSAT section scores only. The Dubbo stream adds a compulsory personal statement plus a possible interview that feeds the final ranking. Some international applicants are interviewed and international offers depend on it. The school-leaver DDMP is selected by an online Assessment Day (group interview + written assessment). Indigenous Facilitated Entry Scheme applicants may be required to attend an interview. No Sydney pathway uses an MMI.
Sydney's standard Metropolitan graduate pathway has had no interview for several cycles - the 2027 admissions guides describe none, while the AMC's 2021 accreditation report still recorded an interview for all applicants. Sydney does not publish the cycle in which the interview was removed, so no start year should be stated.
— offers are based on GAMSAT alone, with USyd ranking applicants on individual section scores (Section 1 → Section 2 → Section 3) rather than the overall weighted score. GAMSAT results must be from the past two years (shorter than ACER's 4-year validity).
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants enter through the Indigenous Facilitated Entry Scheme, which has separate bachelor's-degree and postgraduate-degree streams and is overseen by the Indigenous Admissions Advisory Group (IAAG). Eligible applicants 'may be required to attend an interview as part of the admission process'; Sydney publishes no format for that interview and it is not an MMI.
From 2027 entry the GAMSAT requirement is waived for this scheme. Separately, Dubbo-stream applicants must submit a personal statement and may be interviewed, with the interview feeding their final ranking, and some international applicants are interviewed.
~300 students per year in total (not 300 domestic plus internationals). For 2027 entry Sydney publishes anticipated offers of 141 Metropolitan CSP + 66 Metropolitan Bonded Medical Program + 24 Dubbo CSP = 231 domestic (all marked TBC), which already includes approximately 30 offers reserved for progressing Double Degree Medicine students, plus up to 70 full-fee international places in the Metropolitan stream. Sydney admits no domestic full-fee students, and the Dubbo places are CSP-only.
University of Sydney was founded in 1856 and is based in Sydney.
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Try the AI interviewer| Entry pathway | Undergraduate and graduate entry |
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| GPA | Minimum 5.0/7.0 weighted GPA (4.5 for rural applicants) |
| GAMSAT | Hard minimum 50 in each of the three sections (USyd MD Admissions Guide) |
| Interview format | No interview on the standard entry route |
| Intake | ~300 students per year in total (not 300 domestic plus internationals) |
| Admission overview | Bachelor degree (any discipline) with minimum GPA 5.0/7.0 (4.5 rural); GAMSAT minimum 50 in each section (hard hurdle), ranked on individual section scores; International applicants may substitute MCAT (minimum 500, test date January 2024 - June 2026) - ISAT is not accepted. No interview on the standard Metropolitan graduate pathway, but Dubbo-stream applicants must submit a personal statement and may be interviewed, some international applicants are interviewed, Indigenous Facilitated Entry Scheme applicants may be interviewed, and Sydney reserves an interview or Situational Judgement Test as a tie-break between equally ranked applicants. |
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| GAMSAT | Hard minimum 50 in each of the three sections (USyd MD Admissions Guide); Minimum 50 in each of the three GAMSAT sections (Reasoning in Humanities and Social Sciences; Written Communication; Reasoning in Biology and Physical Sciences - the S1/S2/S3 numbering was retired in 2024). Ranking uses individual section scores; overall and average GAMSAT scores are explicitly not used. Sydney may weight sections but does not publish the weighting or the order of priority, states that past threshold scores 'will not be published or provided', and 'does not disclose the ranking of applicants' GAMSAT scores'. Under the Indigenous and rural facilitated entry schemes Sydney 'may make offers to applicants with scores that are below the cut-off for standard admission'. No offer-holder GAMSAT figure is published, and no overall-score median can exist because Sydney never computes an overall score for ranking. Only results from the past 2 years accepted. |
| ISAT | Accepted in lieu of GAMSAT for some international applicants. |
| GPA | Minimum 5.0/7.0 weighted GPA (4.5 for rural applicants). GPA functions as a hurdle only — a 5.1 and 7.0 rank equally once above the floor. |
| Place types | 2027 entry, as published by Sydney: 141 Metropolitan CSP + 66 Metropolitan Bonded Medical Program places + 24 Dubbo CSP = 231 domestic offers anticipated (TBC), including ~30 reserved for Double Degree Medicine progressions; plus up to 70 full-fee international places in the Metropolitan stream. BMP places are additional to the standard CSPs and sit at the Commonwealth's 28.5% of commencing medical CSPs (66/231 = 28.6%). Identical admission criteria apply to all place types. No domestic full-fee places; Dubbo is CSP-only. |
| Indigenous pathway | Indigenous Facilitated Entry Scheme, in two streams - one for applicants with a bachelor's degree and one for applicants with a master's or PhD (the latter needs no bachelor's degree). GPA of 4.5 is preferred, and the Indigenous Admissions Advisory Group (IAAG) may consider and recommend applicants below it who show improvement across their tertiary studies. From 2027 entry the GAMSAT requirement is waived for this scheme, as is the rule requiring two years of study at the awarding institution. Eligible applicants may be required to attend an interview; no format is published and it is not an MMI. Annual quota not publicly disclosed (the AMC's 2021 report records a cohort target of 2% Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students). The DDMP school-leaver route drops the ATAR requirement to 90 for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants, who are then invited to the Assessment Day interview. |
| Bonded / rural | ~28.5% of CSP places are BMP (national mandate). Sydney publishes no reserved block of rural places. Its rural-origin cohort target is set by the Rural Health Multidisciplinary Training program guidelines; the AMC recorded it in 2021 as a minimum of 27% of the cohort from 2020, and it has not been restated for the 2027 cycle - it is a cohort-composition target, not reserved places. Sydney's own Rural Applicants Facilitated Entry Scheme for 2027 entry is a GPA concession only (minimum GPA 4.5 instead of 5.0, requiring ASGS rural residence of 5 consecutive or 10 cumulative years); the GAMSAT hurdle of 50 in each section is unchanged for rural applicants. Rural GPA floor reduced to 4.5. |
| Specialities offered | Clinical Research, Global Health, Indigenous Health, Rural Medicine, Infectious Disease |
| Format | No interview on the standard Metropolitan (Sydney) graduate pathway - ranking is on individual GAMSAT section scores only. The Dubbo stream adds a compulsory personal statement plus a possible interview that feeds the final ranking. Some international applicants are interviewed and international offers depend on it. The school-leaver DDMP is selected by an online Assessment Day (group interview + written assessment). Indigenous Facilitated Entry Scheme applicants may be required to attend an interview. No Sydney pathway uses an MMI. |
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| Interview window (2027 entry) | No interview on the standard Metropolitan graduate pathway. Dubbo-stream and Indigenous-scheme interview dates are not published by Sydney (they necessarily fall between the 4 June 2026 application close and the 3 September 2026 first-round offers, but no date is published). DDMP online Assessment Days 18 December 2026 and 18 January 2027 for domestic applicants; international DDMP online assessments 23 September 2026, 2 December 2026 and 28 January 2027. |
| Decision date (2027 entry) | Graduate MD 2027 entry: domestic first-round offers 3 September 2026, continuing to January 2027; international first-round offers 1 October 2026, continuing to December 2026. School-leaver DDMP runs on the UAC rounds instead (23 December 2026 and 21 January 2027). |
| Post-interview chances | N/A for the standard Metropolitan graduate pathway - GAMSAT section ranking determines offers. Sydney publishes no post-interview conversion data for the Dubbo stream, the international interview, the Indigenous Facilitated Entry Scheme interview, or the DDMP Assessment Day. |
Sydney's standard pathway is GAMSAT + GPA ranking only since 2021 — no interview. Focus prep on GAMSAT and clear 50 in all three sections - that is a hard hurdle, and a single sub-50 section ends the application no matter how strong the others are. Sydney ranks on individual section scores, never on an overall or average score, but it does not publish the weighting or the order of priority, and it states that past threshold scores 'will not be published or provided' - so treat any quoted section priority or cut-off as guesswork. GPA is an eligibility floor of 5.0 (4.5 for rural and Indigenous scheme applicants); Sydney states that ranking is on admissions test results and does not publish any rank benefit for a higher GPA. If you are a school leaver, the Double Degree Medicine Program is the one Sydney route with a real interview to prepare for: an online Assessment Day of group interview plus written assessment, held two days after ATAR release (Assessment Day 1, 18 December 2026; Assessment Day 2, 18 January 2027 for 2027 entry) - and the dates are not negotiable. Dubbo-stream graduate applicants should prepare a rural-motivation personal statement and expect a possible interview on the same theme, but note Sydney's warning that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and rural applicants get priority ranking for Dubbo and that preferencing Dubbo gives no advantage to anyone else. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants apply through the Indigenous Facilitated Entry Scheme, where GAMSAT is waived from 2027 entry and an interview may be required.
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