What is the Rural Access Scheme?

The Rural Access Scheme exists to recognise the challenges that are often faced by students from Rural and Remote backgrounds.
For a select number of highly competitive medicine, dentistry and veterinary science courses, a certain amount of places are allocated to applicants who are from Rural and Remote backgrounds to study as part of the Rural Access Scheme.
If you have lived in Rural and Remote areas of Australia for five years consecutively (60 full months) or ten years cumulatively (120 full months), the chance to study as part of the scheme may be available to you.