JHU, Harvard and Stanford think that merit aid is detrimental to the future of medical education! I find it rather rich (pun intended) that these schools, that have their pick of high quality applicants to fill their classes, think that way! The schools that offer merit scholarships, often do so to poach some of those high stats kids from these very schools! Needless to say, they don’t like that very much Also, there is very little evidence to suggest that medical school financial aid is a zero sum game.
Such a liberal argument! No wonder more and more smart students are opting for wall street and tech industry rather than going to expensive medical education followed by low government payments for medical services.
All these schools are sitting on billions of endowments but increasing tuition double or triple the rate of inflation.
Hope things are going well for everyone Our experience from two years ago was that some of the schools start clearing their their applicants around this time. It feels very unthanksgiving like but that is life.
Thank you @mom2collegekids. Yes, I have kept up with your son via your CC posts. You have been a wealth of information for us. Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom!
Congrats @Belle315 !!! You must be so excited!!! I have a dear friend who is a professor at UAB Med School! She loves teaching there! Hoping to hear good news for D2 soon… one rejection (we knew it was coming) 1 hold, and 2 more interviews coming up.
Thank you @moonpie. You have been such a help to us in the process.
Wishing all the best for your D2. Even when you know it’s coming, getting rejections is no fun. I’m sure you will hear some good news really soon, though.
I hope all of your kids have received some good news by now. If not, there is still lots of time (this process just seems to go on forever, though, doesn’t it?)
We’ve still got 2 more decisions coming. I think the waiting is harder on the parents than the actual applicants. D tells me she rarely thinks about it.
I continue to be struck by the seeming randomness of the process. D has gotten an interview she never expected yet gotten a silent rejection from a school that, on paper, seems like a perfect fit. I know each school does things its own way, but I have a hard time making sense of it.
Also, there is very little evidence to suggest that medical school financial aid is a zero sum game.