how to go to med school without paying too much

Pre-Med & Medical School Specific Med Schools
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son is at an ivy league, premed track, minority. high gpa, hoping to go to a top 10 med school program. is there any way to do this without paying too much? Scholarships, etc

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Public in state medical school.

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Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

Still free. In fact, you get paid to go to school.

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Also the Military Health Professional Scholarship Program.

http://medicineandthemilitary.com/joining-and-eligibility/medical-school-scholarships?source-id=Scholarships_Broad&medium-id=Broad&campaign-id=Financial_General&content-id=military_pay_medical_school

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And the National Health Service Corp

http://nhsc.hrsa.gov

There are scholarships and loan repayment programs. Requires a primary care specialty and working for at least 4 years full time in a designated medically underserved clinical practice site. (Usually rural or inner city areas.)

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A top applicant from a top school with a very high GPA, and high MCAT score with solid “softs” and extensive research experience and is a URM has an excellent shot at a good scholarship at most medical schools. The UCLA Geffen is probably the best with full tuition and living expenses covered. Cleveland Clinic is also good but they require 5 years and while there is no tuition you do have to pay for living costs. Most Other Medical schools will have a variety of scholarships available.

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Cleveland Clinic medical school is free. However, there are no lectures, no exams and it is 5 years instead of 4, since they are doing research for whole year. In my eyes, since it takes one more year, it is not free, but rather costs somewhere $250k because you are loosing whole year of physician’s salary. But most people call it free because there is no tuition. I believe that Mayo clinic also may have a free medical school, I do not know any details about this one.
I cannot suggest another way, that was pursued by my D., since it does not exist for you at this point. If your kid is at Harvard, I imagine that you are paying tuition for his college. That was avoided by my D. who went to college on full tuition Merit award. Since we did not pay for her college, we offered to pay for her medical school. So, she graduated from medical school debt free among 16% of others.
Maybe the kid has a good chance at Merit awards for medical school. Consider though that there are people with very impressive graduate degrees among medical school applicants, PhD from Harvard, Masters of Science from places like JHU, lawyers. Also, California is flooding the rest of the country with it’s very impressive applicants. Both groups - people with Graduate degrees and CA applicants were very well represented in my D’s medical school class. For that reason, the medical school adcom called D’s pre-med adviser, expressing the hopes that she would attend there despite the fact that they cannot offer Merit award to her. Oh, well, it is behind us, we all survived without starving.
Not paying UG tuition allowed our D. to have a better choice for her medical school. Not having student loans after medical school allowed her to have much better choices for her specialty and place of residency.

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Was about to post about NHSC because I just got an email today about it. It looks like they changed the commitment, it’s now a 1 year commitment per year of support (minimum of 2 year commitment even if you get only 1 year support)
That’s in the body of the email I got so I can’t link you to anything official. This is the summary/description of the program as it is now: http://nhsc.hrsa.gov/downloads/spapplicationguide.pdf?utm_campaign=Now+Open%3A+2016+NHSC+Scholarship+Program&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

And this is what the email says: