Scholarship links

[emidesu]

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Anyone know any good sites for (non-obvious) scholarship information? I am starting MSI this year and looking especially for need-based aid.

 

[FDoRoML]

I've searched until my fingers ached, my eyes felt like the Sonoran Desert, and my stomach was in knots... there is not much out there unless you're URM (even then, not a whole lot for med student level).

Other than FastWeb, collegeboard.com, and SRN express... not much for you. With those searches, you can enter personal data about your home state, ethnic/religious/etc background, and other factors that might bring something up. There aren't a lot for professional students-- I guess they think we'll be making a lot of money some day and don't deserve their help! 🙂

 

[JohnUC33]

I've searched until my fingers ached, my eyes felt like the Sonoran Desert, and my stomach was in knots... there is not much out there unless you're URM (even then, not a whole lot for med student level).

Other than FastWeb, collegeboard.com, and SRN express... not much for you. With those searches, you can enter personal data about your home state, ethnic/religious/etc background, and other factors that might bring something up. There aren't a lot for professional students-- I guess they think we'll be making a lot of money some day and don't deserve their help! 🙂

Even if you're an URM (like me), there's not much unless you get it from the institution you attend.

 

[kate_g]

I don't know that this works for med schools, but I've seen it work for undergrad and graduate institutions, so it might be worth a try. You could just go to whatever the office is that takes care of med students (not the university's financial aid office - you're looking for the place you go within the med school for class schedule issues, problems with a professor, problems with another student, or when you just generally need your hand held... maybe the dean's office staff?) and ask if they have any money set aside. Sounds silly, but I know several people who have walked in, explained a particularly tough situation, and said "can you help?" My graduate department has an "emergency loan" that you have to pay back, but they don't charge you interest or anything. I know people who did this in undergrad and came out with a $500 or $1000 "scholarship". To make this work you probably have to actually need the money right away, and be falling through the financial aid cracks somehow (your EFC was unrealistically high, your spouse just lost their job, whatever) and be able to tell an honest story. It would also probably be a small amount of money, but clearly every little bit helps, and anyway by the time you're scrounging web sites for that one special scholarship for Hungarian-American residents of midwestern states who had a mother who drove garbage trucks *and* intend to specialize in disorders of the spleen, you're not going to get huge windfalls there either.