Medical ,Nursing Scholarship

thumper1
Thu, 24 Dec 2020 14:38:55 +0000

You need to understand that Fastweb isn’t a place to find big money to fund anything…at all.

We know kids who applied for over 100 fastweb scholarships and either got nothing or a few hundred dollars. Don’t count on Fastweb to fund college costs. You will likely be disappointed.

As mentioned above, merit aid for medical and dental schools is offered by the schools to a small number of applicants who are accepted. My kid got a merit award. Her med school tuition alone was $42,000 a year…that does not include living expenses at all. Her first two years, she got $3000 a year. Do the math. She then applied to a competitive program at her school which extended her med school by an additional year (research, teaching, mentoring) for which she got 1/2 tuition for years 3 and 4 and full tuition for year 5. When crunching the numbers, this really net saved her nothing. She had living expenses for an additional year, plus this delayed her residency entry by a year (where income is earned).

If you are looking for significant merit money for dental or medical school, I think you will be disappointed unless your kid gets accepted to a place like NYU where tuition is free for all accepted medical school students (acceptance rate in the single digits).

In terms of nursing…many states offer post bachelors programs for folks who didn’t major in nursing but have the required coursework done. These bachelors to nursing programs are sometimes fully funded, and are also highly competitive.

Re: undergrad…look at the scholarships colleges offer students. That’s where the money is.

@WayOutWestMom any real ideas on scholarships for nursing, medical or dental school?