Hey guys i was just wonder about the diffrent scholarships that NYCPM, TEMPLE , & BARRY provide ?? Have you heard of anything high or low?? or like special cases?? Thankz in advance!!
Scholarship Offers??
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Wherever you apply, the main keys to attaining scholarship monies are early application and good stats.
Most schools that give a fair amount of scholarships have a limited endowment based on alumni contributions. Once that's been awarded, it's gone until the next year. A good applicant who send in his/her app early will usually get more scholarship consideration than a great app that is sent in at the 11th hour...
When I applied to Barry 4yrs ago, I got 4k per year and I have renewed it all 4 years (renewable with 3.0gpa pod annually). That's a total of $16k off my loans, and if you do the math (5% interest), that'll save me nearly $30k by the time all is said and done. I was a fairly average applicant... 2.9/28R with full time hospital job during undergrad, and I also applied right when apps opened up.
Most schools that give a fair amount of scholarships have a limited endowment based on alumni contributions. Once that's been awarded, it's gone until the next year. A good applicant who send in his/her app early will usually get more scholarship consideration than a great app that is sent in at the 11th hour...
When I applied to Barry 4yrs ago, I got 4k per year and I have renewed it all 4 years (renewable with 3.0gpa pod annually). That's a total of $16k off my loans, and if you do the math (5% interest), that'll save me nearly $30k by the time all is said and done. I was a fairly average applicant... 2.9/28R with full time hospital job during undergrad, and I also applied right when apps opened up.
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Do the schools usually come to you with scholarship offers or do you have to pull some strings to have them come up with one?
For entrance scholarships, they will offer them to you upon acceptance into the program. The scholarship award letter generally will arrive with your acceptance letter.
If you are offered an entrance scholarship, you should be considering not only the amount - but also the renewal criteria. A $10k or half tuition scholarship sounds fantastic, but it may only be renewable only if you remain top 10% in the class... so basically a 1yr deal unless you can REALLY perform. On the other hand, a $5k sounds may sound mediocre, but if it's renewable with a 3.0 annually, that $ is yours to keep for all 4 years as long as you apply yourself in the curriculum.
For other upperclassman scholarships (APMSA, alumni awards, PICA, clinical, etc), you need to apply for them once you get going in pod school. Once you are a pod student, you should be informed of those scholly offerings by your APMSA reps, school FinAid office, etc. You generally need to have a good gpa, ECs, etc for those awards. There are also some scholly monies reserved for minority students, female students, residents of certain states, etc.
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Feli ur the man!! why arent you moderator already lol?? 👍
thanks Feli for breakin it down. yeah i agree that you've been great at answering everyone's questions
