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said that 86% students with a 3.5 or higher GPA and an MCAT of 27 or higher got in to med school. That is pretty good from my view.
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that is somewhat typical. The 14% that didn’t receive any acceptances are probably the ones with the 3.5 and 27 & 28, unless they’re very hooked.
To the OP…it sounds to me like you already talked to BC financial aid once. They gave you a $4000 additional grant, right…instead of all the loans.
The school is meeting your need…more than meeting your need in terms of the cost of attendance…
Definitely contact them…but I’m not sure what more you expect them to do.
Regarding Medical School acceptances. The MCAT scoring has changed as well as the actual test and the retired courses for applying to medical school. This is new this round.
Your goal should be to get the BEST possible GPA and the BEST possible MCAT scores…BEST. Good medical related experience, and LOR will be helpful too. But really the name of your undergrad college doesn’t matter one bit.
You want to keep your debt to a minimum…because you likely WILL have about $50,000 a year in debt for medical school.
Yes, the goal is to be the best. Someone has to be the best at BC in the pre-med courses. Why not me? I am more than willing and capable.
BCs premed program is open to all but letters only get written for qualifying students.
The good news is that BC offered 20000 more than Northeastern did (my other choice). It is basically 3 choices at the moment, with Northeastern on hold as my dad sorts out financial aid.
Ok…well NEU also meets full need…so if they offered you LESS…than maybe your need isn’t as little as you think it is.
Qualifying students? What does that even mean?
For med school, your top priority has to be your GPA, MCATs, and minimizing debt. I’m not the first person to say that. The name of your school really doesn’t matter if you’ve taken care of the above.
Yes, I have heard this a million times, I think I have learned the formula at this point.
BC put the cost of attendace for commuter to be 55395 but I calculated it to be 50400 which is bit less. I didn’t include health care since my parents will take care of that. Is the rest of the cost living expenses at home and books or something? Should I use this cost of attendance better?
Oh and another thing…I thought BC required freshmen to live on campus. Make sure you absolutely can continue to live at home.
Yes, they allow the option. The school was historically a proud commuter school, and I personally know students that commute. They calculate aid considering the housing status and its listed as such on my financial award.
The schools lists the COA at $55k because there is a cost to you living at home. You need to worry about the billed costs, the books, the transportation costs, so somewhere between $50k and $55k.
You can borrow (or parents could borrow) up to the COA, but it sounds like parents can absorb the cost of your living at homeso don’t need to borrow that.
Great, that makes sense. Thank you
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BCs premed program is open to all but letters only get written for qualifying students.
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ahh…that’s how they control and manipulate their acceptance rate.
It’s not hard to look at a premed’s situation and determine what his chances are as long as he has an appropriate app list and applies by July. A male AA with a MCAT 27 and 3.5 science GPA will likely get snapped up by a few med schools while an Asian applicant with the same stats would likely get no US MD acceptances…and would likely get steered to DO schools. (obviously using the old MCAT scoring, as that is what most of us are most familiar with).
The OP needs to consider funding for all four years. Ask BC what his aid pkg will look like once his sibling graduates AND there will one less in the household.
@mom2collegekids It depends on your overall financial circumstances. I went to Brown and received very substantial FA. As Brown is a "no loans’ college, it was all grant aid. My brother was a senior when I started college. When he graduated, my EFC to Brown went up $2,000. The impact on my FA package was that Brown increased my self help expectation (essentially work study) by this amount. As work-study was very well paid, this wasn’t much of a burden and I was glad to be authorized to work more.
@widgetmidget please read the award. To make ends meet, this student might need to take the direct loan.
And he is not going to Brown…so Brown policy is irrelevant.
I have been told that 22000-27000k in debt is not bad at all for a school like BC.
I work a job now while in school 24 hours a week and it is very difficult but there is less time to study in HS since there is so much class. In college I could work 30 weeks for 12 hours a week plus 40 hours for 12 weeks in the summer. In Boston assuming I make min wage, that would come out to around 8200… What am I not getting here?
As long as you don’t take more than the federal loan amount 27k total), you’ll be okay.
Can you calculate what total level of debt you’d be in, WITHOUT any parent loan ?
^ The costs associated with every day life?
Even if you make that much after taxes, you still need to buy personal necessities and whatnot. Those little things add up.