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Where should you applyfor dentistry in Australia, on your real numbers.

Australia has no UCAS. Enter your ATAR and UCAT-ANZ, or your GPA and GAMSAT, once — the generator resolves the band that actually ranks you at every Australian dental programme, runs each school's own hurdles over your profile, and hands back a ranked preference order split by GEMSAS, your state TAC and the schools you have to apply to directly.

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Step 1

About you

Australia has no single admissions body. Your route decides which schools exist for you, which test ranks you, and which of GEMSAS, a state TAC or the school's own portal you apply through.

Which entry are you applying for?

Applicant group

Domestic covers Australian citizens, permanent residents and New Zealand citizens — the group Commonwealth Supported Places and the bonded schemes are open to.

Where do you live?

Adelaide, Curtin and Notre Dame Fremantle all apply a material state-of-origin effect, and your state decides which TAC you lodge an undergraduate application with.

Pathways you qualify for

Rural backgroundFive consecutive or ten cumulative years in an MM2–7 location — the definition the schemes actually use, not simply living outside a capital city.Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait IslanderEvery Australian medical and dental school runs a distinct entry pathway. Each school's is shown on your results.

Ticking the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander box surfaces each school's pathway but does not change your verdicts. The criteria are bespoke and mostly unpublished, so inferring a lower bar would be inventing one — go to the school's Indigenous admissions unit for the real assessment.

What would you actually accept?

A bonded place (BMP)Around 28.5% of Commonwealth places nationally are Bonded Medical Program places, carrying a return-of-service obligation.A full-fee placeMacquarie and Bond have no Commonwealth Supported Places at all; Melbourne and Notre Dame Sydney run large full-fee allocations alongside their CSPs.Moving interstateTurn this off and schools outside your state are excluded from your preference list rather than merely ranked lower.

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How it works

How the generator decides

Three passes, in order. Nothing is averaged into a single opaque score — every verdict names the rule that produced it, so you can check it against the school's own admissions guide before you commit a preference.

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The hurdle, then the ranking metric — the structural difference from the UK. An Australian school has both, and which is which changes school by school: Newcastle ranks on UCAT-ANZ once you clear an ATAR of 94.30, UQ Dental does the reverse, and Wollongong turns GAMSAT and GPA into pure hurdles and ranks on Casper. Each verdict says which of the two you failed.
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Then the structural filters — state-of-origin effects, rural and bonded quotas, full-fee-only programmes, Year 12 prerequisites and the schools that run no admissions test at all. These decide whether a place exists for you before any score does.
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A ranked order, and how many applications it is — the picks that survive are kept, the rest are replaced by the closest comparable school, the whole list is ordered because an Australian preference is binding, and it is then split by GEMSAS, your TAC and the direct applications.

What powers it

Built on our own Australian dataset

Not a lookup table of headline cut-offs. The generator runs on the same per-school data our Australian school guides are written from.

14UCAT-ANZ bands

UCAT-ANZ bands come from NGMP AU TrueScore, our own prediction of the score needed for an interview, quoted on the current /2700 scale with a confidence rating per school. Schools that do not use UCAT-ANZ carry no band and are ranked on whatever they do use.

32Expert rule sets

One hand-authored rule set per programme — 22 medical and 10 dental — covering ATAR floors, GAMSAT section minimums, GPA weighting formulas, Casper policy, prerequisites, place types and the rural and bonded quotas that decide who is actually in the pool.

Hurdle ≠ targetBoth figures kept

Australian schools publish minimums far below what gets an interview — Adelaide's ATAR 90 against a typical 99.75, Griffith's GPA 5.0 against its own warning that the real bar is “significantly higher”. Both numbers are stored separately and you are ranked against the competitive one.

GEMSASChannel-aware

The generator knows which of GEMSAS, UAC, VTAC, QTAC, SATAC, TISC or the school's own portal each preference is lodged with, and tells you how many separate applications your list actually is — with the mid-September GEMSAS preference lock called out.

A shortlisting model, not a prediction

No Australian university publishes a guaranteed cut-off — most say outright that thresholds float with the applicant pool every year. Use the generator to narrow the field to a defensible preference order, then verify every one against the school's current admissions guide, the GEMSAS booklet or your TAC listing before your preferences lock.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Because Australia runs two separate admissions systems and you are only in one of them. School-leaver entry is ranked on ATAR and, at most schools, UCAT-ANZ; graduate entry is ranked on GPA and GAMSAT. The three dual-pathway universities (Monash, UWA, Tasmania) keep their streams entirely separate — you enter one set of rankings, not both. So the generator asks for the numbers that apply to your route and ignores the rest rather than collecting scores it will never use.

Because there are only ten dentistry and oral-health programmes in the country, against twenty-two in medicine, and they are split across two entirely different entry routes. Six are school-leaver entries ranked on ATAR and UCAT-ANZ (UQ, Griffith, Adelaide, Charles Sturt, JCU and La Trobe, which uses no test at all), three are graduate entries on GPA and GAMSAT (Sydney, Melbourne and UWA), and Curtin’s programme is Oral Health Therapy, a narrower scope of practice than a BDS or DMD. Your route typically leaves you with four or five real options.

Because they publish none, and inventing one would be worse than saying so. Several catalogue entries quote 2024-cycle cut-offs on the retired /3600 four-subtest UCAT scale, which is not convertible to the current /2700 scale — a 3060 is not a 2295. Rather than converting them, those figures stay as prose in the school’s note and the school is marked "not published". Bond is similar for a different reason: it runs its own psychometric test, so no UCAT or GAMSAT score transfers there at all.

Yes, and more than in the UK. A GEMSAS preference order is binding: you are offered the highest-ranked preference where you receive both an interview and a post-interview offer, and you cannot reorder after offers issue. That means a school you would rather attend must sit above one you are more likely to get, or the more likely offer simply arrives first and ends your cycle. The generator therefore hands back a ranked list — stretches high, matched schools through the middle, one that protects the cycle at the bottom — rather than an unordered shortlist.

Because a six-school preference list is rarely one application. GEMSAS covers ten graduate-entry schools in a single form, but Sydney, Flinders, Bond and JCU all run their own portals with their own deadlines and fees, and undergraduate entry routes through your state Tertiary Admissions Centre instead. A list that mixes them is three applications, not one — and missing a direct-application deadline while your GEMSAS form sits submitted is one of the most common ways an Australian cycle is lost.

As the schemes actually define it: five consecutive or ten cumulative years in an MM2–7 location, not simply living outside a capital city. It is the single largest structural lever in Australian admissions — Newcastle drops its ATAR hurdle from 94.30 to 85, La Trobe’s Regional Benefits Program drops a 99+ dentistry rank to 85, Charles Sturt reserves roughly 80% of interview offers for rural applicants, and Deakin’s Tier 1 rural stream removes the GAMSAT requirement entirely. The impact panel models your list with and without it so you can see the size of the effect on your own numbers.

Because every school runs its own pathway and almost none publish the criteria. Ticking it surfaces each school’s named pathway — Cadigal at Sydney, Murrup Barak at Melbourne, Miroma Bunbilla at Newcastle, CAMDH at UWA, Wirltu Yarlu at Adelaide — along with what is publicly known about how it works, including where UCAT, GAMSAT or Casper is waived. Inferring a lower numerical bar from that would be inventing one. Contact the school’s Indigenous admissions unit directly: several can consider applicants well outside the standard ranking.

Only if you are eligible for both, which most people are not. School leavers cannot apply to graduate entry because it requires a completed bachelor degree. Current undergraduates can apply to graduate entry for the year they will finish. Existing degree-holders can technically use their ATAR for undergraduate medicine through a state TAC, but most undergraduate medical schools restrict graduate applicants. The dual-pathway schools keep their streams entirely separate — you choose one, you cannot enter both rankings.

No. It is a shortlisting model. It tells you which hurdles you clear, which band each school ranks on, where your score sits against it, and what a preference order built on that would look like. It cannot know this cycle’s applicant pool, how a school will weight its interview, or how you will perform on the day — and at schools where the interview is worth half the final rank (Melbourne, UWA, Wollongong, WSU) that is most of the decision. Verify every preference against the school’s current admissions guide before you lock your order in.

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Campus photographs are used under free Creative Commons or public-domain licences and have been resized and cropped for display.

Adelaide: photograph by Yu Chu Chin — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Adelaide Dental: photograph by User:DXR — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
ANU: photograph by Thennicke — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Bond: photograph by coastal.culture.vulture — CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Charles Sturt (Rural): photograph by Content Charles Sturt — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Charles Sturt Dental: photograph by Content Charles Sturt — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Curtin: photograph by Orderinchaos — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Curtin Oral Health Therapy: photograph by Orderinchaos — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Deakin: photograph by Bob T — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Griffith: photograph by Chris Olszewski — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Griffith Dental: photograph by Chris Olszewski — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
JCU: photograph by Nielg — Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
JCU Dental: photograph by Nielg — Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
La Trobe Dental: photograph by Phnomenon (English Wikipedia) — Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Macquarie: photograph by Macquarie University — CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Melbourne: photograph by Polly clip — CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Melbourne Dental: photograph by Polly clip — CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Monash: photograph by Rob Deutscher from Melbourne, Australia — CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Newcastle / JMP: photograph by HMRIAustralia — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Notre Dame Fremantle: photograph by Calistemon — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Notre Dame Sydney: photograph by RubyGoes — CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sydney: photograph by Jason Tong — CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sydney Dental: photograph by Jason Tong — CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Tasmania: photograph by Gary Houston (User:Ghouston) — CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
UNSW: photograph by J Bar — CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
UQ: photograph by Kgbo — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
UQ Dental: photograph by The University of Queensland — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
UWA: photograph by Kristina D.C. Hoeppner — CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
UWA Dental: photograph by Calistemon — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Western Sydney: photograph by Sciencefreak109 — CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Wollongong: photograph by JVPurvis — CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Reviewed by Isaac Butler-King, medical student at the University of Glasgow. Last reviewed: 30 August 2026 · Editorial policy

Where should you applyfor dentistry in Australia, on your real numbers.

About you

How the generator decides

Built on our own Australian dataset

A shortlisting model, not a prediction

Frequently asked questions

Why does this ask for GAMSAT or UCAT-ANZ but never both?

Why are there so few Australian dental schools on the list?

Why do some schools show no number at all?

Does the order of my preferences actually matter?

Why does it tell me how many separate applications my list is?

How is rural background handled?

Why does ticking the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander box not change my verdicts?

Can I apply to both undergraduate and graduate entry in the same cycle?

Is this a prediction of whether I will get in?

Now go and earn the score the model wants