How Can You Pay For Med School Apps & INTERVIEWS?

mcat2
Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:30:58 +0000

I’m grateful that D1 is likely to get out of med school with under $70K in debt.



If DS could get out of med school under $150K in debt (with some assistance from us), I would be very happy.

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.)

For a private medical school, the free money offered could be higher, but with a much higher “sticker price.” The actual out-of-pocket expenses could be about the same if you are very lucky and this kind of nice deal is likely for a very limited number of medical schools only. Priviate ones tend to be higher in their COA in general.

If DS attended the state school, he would get $7000 in MS1 (less in other years.)