scholarship question

[Medstudentquest]

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I'm curious, do most medical students have some sort of scholarship helping them pay school? I have recently read of several classmates who are getting partial scholarships to attend med school. I was so surprised! Do med students in general get alot of scholarships either to attend or while attending med school? is this common?

 

[QuinnB]

I don't know about elsewhere, but at my school about 10 students are on full academic scholarships, 10-15 are on special full "university scholarships" (all are minority or low SES) and about 50% of the out of state students have some scholarship that reduces their out of state tuition to in state.

So probably about 40% of my class has some scholarship or another. For me on the other hand, I am just overwhelmingly in debt, probably for the rest of my life.

 

[Medstudentquest]

I don't know about elsewhere, but at my school about 10 students are on full academic scholarships, 10-15 are on special full "university scholarships" (all are minority or low SES) and about 50% of the out of state students have some scholarship that reduces their out of state tuition to in state.

So probably about 40% of my class has some scholarship or another. For me on the other hand, I am just overwhelmingly in debt, probably for the rest of my life.

Full academic scholarships? How do you get a full academic scholarship or university scholarship? I know that out of state students somehow get their tuition reduced, but that doesn't really count. They still pay regular in state tuition no?

 

[QuinnB]

Half of the out of staters pay the equivalent to in state tuition, the other half pay real out of state tuition.

For the full academic and "university" scholarships - that is just that. They are on full tuition reimbursed scholarships. The people who are under said scholarships are all known in our class for various reasons. How do you get them? Well the academic ones - you basically had to rock the MCAT, come from a top 20% undergrad program, have a solid gpa, get admitted to another school that our schools is trying to get you not to go to, etc...

For the university ones, they are generally reserved for lower socioeconomic/true minority status (at least they were, but I think a law got passed saying that they couldn't do this anymore).