<p>I was browsing through US News and they had the % of the student body that received aid to certain medical and law schools and most did exceed 80% with many above 90%. These are my reasons for believing there is more scholarships and aid granted:</p>
<p>1) In general, grad and professional school is more $ than traditional undergrad
2) the admission rate to grad and professional schools are much lower than undergrad schools with exception of course IVYS, MIT and Stanford.
3) Many times when applying to grad or professional school, you are classified independent because many people work a bit before, so they raise the likelyhood of getting accepted.
4) the money that your parents did save for college for you is depleted by the time you finish undergrad</p>
<p>Is my hypothesis true that grad and professional schools do grant more Financial Aid and scholarships than regular undergraduate school, </p>
<p>My D looked into a 6 yr PT doctrate program. She got a great scholarship and fine aid for the first 4 years, also a small athletic scholarship. HOWEVER the last 2 years of the program they only offer loans to all students. She declined.It is a close to 40,000 a yr college so that made me wonder about grad school . In some cases it may be worse.</p>
<p>For most graduate schools, the amount of "financial aid" available is in the form of loans and work. Remember that there is no Federal grant program for graduate study and most colleges cannot afford TAs and RAs for graduate students. You will find that in most graduate programs, the cost is higher than undergraduate, but you will be able to (and expected to) borrow much more in student loans to finance the cost.</p>
<p>there more loans available but they have to be repaid!!!</p>
<p>So there is not more scholarships, grants, and financial aid offered to graduate level study( professional school- law, medical) VS. Undergraduate. These are things that dont have to be payed back!</p>