@thumper1 - Texas does not seem to have merit scholarships from what I have seen outside of Baylor. They are awarding scholarships to some when they admit people in the first round before they even ask students to file FAFSA (all schools are required to wait until October 15th to admit except for some special auto programs like JAMP or ED).
@PPofEngrDr your approach for determining need makes sense. If I were awarding scholarships without FAFSA, I would look at these in the app to determine need.
All medical students in Texas are considered independent from families and parents are not required to file a FAFSA. D filed a FAFSA and was approved for full COA with a loan without a single dollar in scholarship money. From her app, it would be clear that parents funded her undergrad.
ALL medical students are eligible for the Direct Loan amount (which is in the $40,000 a year range) and Grad Plus Loans up to the full cost of attendance. All they need to do is complete the FAFSA for the correct academic year.
My point is a different one. UTSW awards scholarships as part of FA if they dont award them upfront. I am stating that they are not handing any free money as part of their package although they consider student as independent because they are probably using information for undergrad funding.
They do give out $1000 to all non residents which entitles them to in state tuition. What is actually interesting to me is that they gave this to older daughter but not the younger one. I assume they decided it was not worth giving $1000 to residents!
If you are talking about need based aid, you are wrong about even Texas colleges looking at previous undergrad need.
First, every academic year uses tax year for that FAFSa form, not some previous year.
Second, the student needs to submit the FAFSA to the specific school. Medical schools cannot see the previous fafsa forms or forms not submitted to their medical school.
Big day will finally arrive Friday for DS as he takes the MCAT for first (and hopefully only) time. Studying for it has been his number one priority this summer and it seems to be paying off. He has taken a number of full length exams and has seen his scores steadily rise. HIs first one back in May before he really started studying was through Kaplan and it was a 505. Last three full length AAMC exams have been 515, 518 and now earlier this week 520 (130 on each section). He needs a 125 on each section and 506 overall for the Louisville GEMS program, so he seems to be in really good shape. Very proud of his discipline. Hoping he can now get this test in rear view mirror!
DS submitted all the secondaries, except Mayo. He is still debating if he should send that one or not. Essay fatigue set in and Mayo prompts require complete rewrite.
@srk2017 - It is too small a school unless he is applying to Arizona and Florida also. The Rochester campus messed up admissions quite badly for 2020 by admitting 200 some people and had to retract them all (all waitlisted were admitted). They also moved up in ranks quite a bit and since they are now a top 10 school, they are expected to get a lot more apps for a small number of seats.
My D has acceptance into MS/MD program. GPA is 3.99 and MCAT score of 521. Considering if should apply to more top tier schools. Is it too late in the process to start now?
Primarily selected for their rank (and I lived in MN for a year long back).