<p>OK.. I distinctly remember reading SOMEWHERE that a particular med school required parent information on the FAFSA until the age of 28. Could have been 26. But it was clearly older than 24 (unless married or with dependents I imagine?). Anyway... can anyone either confirm or deny this via personal experience or knowledge?</p>
<p>Thanks, I appreciate it.</p>
<p>Have you asked in the Med School Forum? Someone there probably knows.</p>
<p>[Google:</a> “medical school parent fafsa”](<a href=“medical school parent fafsa - Google Search”>medical school parent fafsa - Google Search)</p>
<p>Second link.</p>
<p>Medical school is a professional graduate program. There really isn’t a lot of need based aid available for med school. Most aid is merit aid, if there is aid available at all. At the end of the day, it probably doesn’t matter if the parent assets/income are listed as really, the most significant aid available is loans…available regardless of the FAFSA information.</p>
<p>State medical schools (which offer little or no need-based aid) will not require parent financial info for med students. </p>
<p>Private medical schools however will all ask for parental financial info. Some will ask for info for students into their 30’s. </p>
<p>What happens for med school is the student files FAFSA as an independent, but private medical schools will have their own FA forms that they require parents to fill out. (Sort of like a Profile, but each school’s form is slightly different.)</p>
<p>EDIT: need-based aid except at a handful of well-endowed school is prinicpally loans. Even at those those well-endowed schools, every student is expected to take out a fairly significant base loan first before need-based grants kick in. So an aid pkg will have a base loan + a family contribution and if there is any need left perhaps a grant and some school-subsidized loans.</p>