How Can You Pay For Med School Apps & INTERVIEWS?

kristin5792
Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:10:32 +0000

For a state medical school, it is our experience that they give a limited amount of scholarship unless you are a heavily-recruited high stats URM (who could get twice as much. Or, a bigger prize may be for a few super-stars – most of them, ironically, likely OOS applicants?) The amount offered by the state medical school is likely 5K-10K at most each year for most students (and likely lower in MS2-MS4.)



Headed to state school for med school soon. This has been my experience with scholarships and financial aid…but for my school, the bigger prizes were all awarded to IS kids (according to financial aid director).

Something worth asking when you are researching financial aid is what percentage of students receive scholarships, and of those recipients, the breakdown of merit vs need. The high figures of financial aid (ie, “92% of our students receive financial aid to help offset the cost of medical school” or whatever) typically include students who are receiving loans too. At my school, for example, only about 30% receive scholarships, and less than half of those scholarships are merit-based (as in, not need based). The rest who have financial aid have loans. And I have no idea what the remaining 8% (or whatever) do.

After taking into account financial assistance from my parents and a scholarship, I’m looking at around $120k-$130k in debt (like others have mentioned, less in M1 and M2, more in M3 and M4).