<p>So I've been looking around for scholarships to medical schools because its about that time I start getting an idea where i'm going to apply. I know UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine offers about 33 full time scholarships to its students but I was wondering if anyone else knew about any other similar merit based scholarships to other schools.</p>
<p>lots of schools. off the top of my head, vanderbilt, mayo, pritzker, feinberg, case western, cclcm, all the texas public schools, washu, penn, mount sinai, nyu, duke</p>
<p>What is your situation?</p>
<p>do you have high stats (high GPA/MCAT)?</p>
<p>Are you a URM? </p>
<p>Some SOMs do have merit awards, but they seem to be offered to certain students to get them to enroll. They may have high stats, they may be desirable URMs, etc.</p>
<p>My quess is that many go to the people with advanced degrees, like PhD, masters. Having decent MCAT score and perfect GPA and all kind of ECs is not enough any more…</p>
<p>As I posted in another thread:</p>
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<p>I’m not saying it’s easy for anyone, advanced degree or not. Only that of the applicants that I know that have been offered scholarships, many were UG only. I don’t doubt having an advanced degree is a factor (and perhaps a stronger factor at some schools than others), but I don’t believe it’s an overriding factor. JMO.</p>
<p>I’ve never gotten the impression that med schools care about an advanced degree</p>
<p>^I think they do. When somebody is coming with PhD from Harvard or Masters of Scince from JHU and the likes, they want these people. The thing that could help academically at Med. School is Masters in Anatomy. These students really know Anatomy and spreading their knowledge, very helpful to have them around. I am sure that faculty is very well aware of it.</p>
<p>When DS was MS1, he mentioned that the knowledge (and/or experience?) about pharmacology of one classmate is much better than all other students. It is as if no other students could possibly catch up with her in this subject in two years by just studying hard.</p>
<p>But I think DS’s school only gives out need based FA though.</p>
<p>Don’t they all “need” then, they do not have income, Med. Students all have the same income = zero.</p>
<p>The school looks at the parents’ income and assets to determine the need of each student who typically has zero income.</p>
<p>^^Except at some public med schools which don’t ask for parental financial info, but also don’t typically offer more than a few thousand in merit aid. (Kat’s son excepted….)</p>
<p>My son got three merit offers. They weren’t HUGE, but they were all decent. The largest was half tuition. The smallest was $10k per year. </p>
<p>I think that having multiple acceptances can help bring on merit offers (schools learn about your other acceptances at some point). I think schools also learn about other merit offers at some point.</p>
<p>Congrats to all who got Merit awards!
D. got none (the one she she got was $2k from one school, and this $$ did not make any dent in her decision making), but apology from adcom of her current Med. School. They have called her pre-med advisor expressing the hope that she (and her classmate) will choose to attend there (yes, they are aware of other acceptances) and apologized for not able to offer any Merit awards to them because of the tremendously high caliber of applicants. This Med. School happened to be the most exapensive out of 4, but since we did not pay tuition for D’s UG, we told her to forget the price tag and choose the one that she really wants.<br>
When we went to White coat ceremony, we realized why they did not have money for her and her classmate. Her 1st year list had good % of higher degrees people, PhD from Harvard, several lawyers, several Masters of Science from the most elite places in the country. The last group was especially very helpful later, the ones with Masters of Anatomy were great sources for the rest of the class, very helpful bunch.</p>