Approximate cost of all applications

[Neil6790]

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This is a remote question that I was thinking about. What would be the approximated total cost of all medical school applications if I applied to all the medical schools in the United States? What would be a good estimate

 

[Isoprop]

Is this application fees only or does this include expenses such as flying for interviews?

 

[Neil6790]

Everything including transportation.

 

[CapnCrunch]

Should be easy to calculate, but it's just time consuming. Doubt anyone here has done such a thing. However, the variable will be where you live in determining travel costs, also the time of interviews. For instance, if you had interviews from back to back that went in the order of California to New York back to California, it would be more expensive than California to California to new york. You'll only be getting rough estimates from people if that's what you're looking for. Happy Holidays!

 

[Isoprop]

I would say 2000 times # of applicants.

 

[VTBuc]

Per AMCAS:

"AMCAS charges an application processing fee of $160 for one (1) medical school designation, and $31 for each designation thereafter"

I'm not exactly sure how many med school are out there...150 or so?

If there are 150 med schools out there, approx app cost is $4779. good luck

That's only for the primary applications. Secondary applications range from 0$ to ~$100. Average price I'd say is $50...so you're looking at well over $10k for applications alone. Transportation/food/hotels would put that maybe at 50k?

 

[Contrarian]

That's only for the primary applications. Secondary applications range from 0$ to ~$100. Average price I'd say is $50...so you're looking at well over $10k for applications alone. Transportation/food/hotels would put that maybe at 50k?

average price of secondaries is not $50...I definitely recall most of them being in the $70-80 range. Maybe I just applied to schools with a predilection for extortion though.

 

[VTBuc]

average price of secondaries is not $50...I definitely recall most of them being in the $70-80 range. Maybe I just applied to schools with a predilection for extortion though.

Eh I went with an actual average, not a mode. Some of my schools were as low as $30 and one was actually free.

 

[avksx]

Transportation, etc is relative and is essentially incalculable without detailed times, dates, length of stay, temporary cost of living in said location, exact locations and advanced algorithims.

There are 131 accredited M.D. schools in the U.S. Primary applications cost 160 for the first app and $30 for every subsequent one. Secondary applications cost a median $75.


Therefore:

(160+130*30)+(131*75) = $13885




Keep in mind not everyone who submits a primary will be invited to submit a secondary, so the number is probably quite a bit less than that.




Source: http://www.aamc.org/programs/first/facts/applyingcost.pdf

 

[osumc2014]

doesnt really matter, cause you'd be dead

 

[amakhosidlo]

I would say 2000 times # of applicants.

...first class all the way too, right? I got through 28 schools on 5 grand, and I was livin' it up.

Keep in mind too that you're not going to interview at every school. Plan on 5, 10 to be safe. $300 for a plane ticket, 50 for a room, 100 for 2 days transportation & food. Call it 500 to be generous. Add 30 + 75 for primary and secondary

~600/school that you realistically think you have a shot at, considerably less for the others.

 

[mvenus929]

Eh I went with an actual average, not a mode. Some of my schools were as low as $30 and one was actually free.

Yeah, and then there's schools that have a $125 application fee, so it averages out to more like $70-80, not $50.

But frankly, it'd just be stupid to apply to every school. I know there's some people who cast a wide net at 50 schools that they have a reasonable chance at. Some schools, depending on your state of residence, will flat out reject you because of where you live. If you have outstanding numbers, some schools will reject you because they'll think you have no desire to go to the school (unless you can prove otherwise in secondary essays). If you have low numbers, some schools won't even look at you because you'll bring down their average.

 

[brooklynblunder]

you could easily go to the school selection spreadsheet and just sum(column with the secondary cost) + 130 + 31(x-1), where x is the number of schools total

 

[Gifted Hands]

I paid ~$2000 (not including the cost of a suit and shoes and all the other little things you have to do). I applied to about 20 schools and I drove to most