What if I want to earn a full tuition scholarship to a med school?

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Just off the top of my head, if there are 12500 medical school spots in any given year, and each of the 125 medical schools has only 2 full scholarships in any given year, that means that 250/12500 or 2/100 students will get scholarships. But when you consider that only 50% of applicants are successful in any given year, that number drops to 1/100 applicants attending on full scholarship. When you add the attrition rates during college due to grades, MCAT scores, or loss of interest, what would that be? 1/300? 1/400? In comparison, your chances of winning anything at all in a Powerball lottery are 1 in 36.61.

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<p>Plus, most med school have no full tuition scholarships at all. So the odds are even worse than what you’re mentioning.</p>

<p>So there you go, OP. Play Powerball. ;)</p>