My daughter is applying for the BSMD program. I am trying to find out which university gives good merit scholarships. Is there any site that I can check or any other resources? I have posted on Reddit and done research but no luck for the specific BSMD schools.
Thank you in advance.
I would have your student contact the program head and/or the AO in charge of the program and what types of financial aid they give, if they give merit aid and if so how much on average. Some programs give no merit aid at all, like Brown. Some schools will give institutional need based aid to students who demonstrate financial need.
Wayne State’s has been a full ride (tuition, room & board) undergrad and a full tuition medical school in past cycles.
10 students per year only. And being low income/disadvantaged is given preference.
@momsearcheng may have ideas since her D applied to BSMD/DO last year, I believe.
I know Rowan’s undergrad has very good merit but I’m not sure about the BSMD. I have a few friends who got admitted into the program so I can ask if you are interested
Another thing to check…does any merit aid you get for the undergrad portion of the BS/MD program continue once your student gets to the medical school portion. It might not.
How much merit aid do you need?
NJIT, UOFSC will give full rides or good merit for most of the students
USF will give full ride to national merit scholars, but this is a conditional bs md program with high MCAT requirement, it is very easy to get in as there is no selection process but needs to meet few GPA and SAT score, not a true BS MD
Few other programs will offer in state fees like Augusta if selected
Above is for the undergraduate colleges and not medical schools
For medical schools public in state fees will be less and they offer merit based on the in state rules … Also, universities like Baylor, Drexel, or Rochester will give some merit for the undergraduate schools, but will not cover the full sticker price
Here is what I know.
Most BS/MD and BS/DO programs do not give merit. They do not have to since all students are kind of top students.
That is part of another forum that often students who get accepted cannot afford it (full pay at privates). Again almost no programs provide scholarship for medical school part.
So technically you are looking for something that does not exist. (There are some local exceptions with very small number of accepted students, but you will not find consolidated list since it will apply to very few number of local kids and nobody will spend time to put it together. )
Because of the above, many premed students either choose state schools and then apply for medical schools, or go for 3rd tier privates so they can get merit and then apply to medical school.
NSU (BSDO) gives some merit (not much) to accepted students but DO part is expensive.
LECOM is also exception since partner school independently may give merit or FA. But LECOM is not involved one way or another.
In general sutuation is like this: parents and students accepted to BS/MD so happy that they made it, that they are ready to pay whatever, or they realize the cost is too big and walk away. Schools do not care since they have big waitlist of parents and students that are ready to pay.
Thank you everyone.