Well they were thinking of reducing the requirement to 75 - thats the requirement for the arts/med and music/med ppl i think - but I'm not sure what came of that. In any case, with a bit of intelligence and application, 80 is quite easy to come by, so it's not something you really need to worry...
As part of advanced science (I recommend doing this as opposed to med sci) you can do a variety of subjects, according to where your interests lie, and, in addition, there are a number of extension programs in the various subjects to satisfy your intellectual curiosities and abilities...
The...
Yep, the usyd combined science medicine course is geared (amongst other things) towards producing graduate doctors who will end up balancing research with clinical duties (so-called academic clinicians or clinician scientists). Attempting fellowship exams while practising medicine and conducting...
BCHM 2972 Human Biochemistry (Advanced) 87.0 High Distinction
CHEM 2916 Chemical Structure and Stability (SSP) 93.0 High Distinction
PCOL 2012 Pharmacology: Drugs and People 90.0 High Distinction
SCTP 2862 Science Talented Student Project 91.0 High Distinction
Well there are a few people at the top end with 90+ wams. All the top maths people, for example, tend to end up with really high wams, since they almost exclusively end up studying nicely scaled maths subjects from second year onwards. But yeh, I'd say there are about 10-15 people in each...
This year's interview at usyd looks to be much tougher though - a panel of 8 interviewers with whom you have to talk about healthcare issues etc seems fairly daunting, especially compared to the silly undergrad interviews like unsw...
Apparently even people with 73 received usyd scholarships...