Dan's Journey
Dan's Path to the University of Melbourne MD
Dan's story isn't a straight line, and that's exactly what makes him such an effective tutor.
After graduating high school, Dan achieved a 99.85 ATAR and went straight into a Bachelor of Pre-Medical Science at Griffith University. Studying medicine-adjacent content full-time at 19 was intense, and Dan eventually chose to step away and explore other parts of life, health, work, and the world before deciding what kind of career he actually wanted.
Dan completed a Bachelor of Economics at the University of Queensland and then worked at Queensland Health for several years as a health economist. That period gave him rare insight into how healthcare works at a systems level, while also clarifying that he wanted a more human, patient-facing role.
Dan then spent a year lecturing at Sichuan University in China, teaching, travelling, and thinking carefully about what he wanted next. When medicine still felt like the right fit after that time away, he chose an accelerated Bachelor of Psychology, completing it in 2 years by taking 5 courses per semester and every summer semester.
Dan graduated with a 6.94 real GPA and 6.99 GEMSAS GPA. He sat the GAMSAT in his final year, largely unprepared because he did not want to risk his GPA, and scored 73/81/62. Happy with the result given he had not touched science in 9 years, he sat again in September with serious preparation and scored 75/83/79. He was offered CSP first-round at both University of Melbourne and University of Sydney.
Dan is now in the clinical years of the MD at University of Melbourne, spending his free time tutoring students across all aspects of medical entrance. He's been tutoring CASPer and MMI for over 3 years, with a 93%+ tracked 2025 domestic MMI offer rate. Every year he looks forward to the big day of offers, when students blow up his phone with screams (and tears) of joy.
Alongside 1:1 coaching, Dan has built free tools to help applicants earlier in their journey: the CASPer & MMI Practice Tool, the GAMSAT Section II essay platform, and the Medical School Chances Calculator, which shows where your profile sits against Australian medical school entry data.