<p>What percentage of med schools give out merit aid and what stats ( GPA/MCAT score) would you need to qualify? What are the top 5 med schools when it comes to merit aid generosity?</p>
<p>I know someone who got a 10K scholarship at UTMB (not an elite school) with a 3.95 and a 30 on the MCAT. The student was first waitlisted at UTMB and then later accepted.</p>
<p>I don’t know about percentages, but there are a few schools that are known to give out merit aid. Some that come to mind are Michigan, UChicago, Vanderbilt, Penn, WashU, and Mayo. There’s no stat cut off, and you will be evaluated holistically (GPA, MCAT, ECs, letters, interview).</p>
<p>Also keep in mind that some schools have pretty generous need-based aid if you qualify. These schools tend to be pretty highbrow with lots of money (Harvard, Hopkins, Stanford, Duke, Penn, WashU, Yale).</p>
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I would interpret this statement as: How badly the med school wants you. With the exception of one school listed here, these schools may not use applicant’s stats to determine who would be awarded with the scholarship.</p>
<p>A couple of years ago, some SDNers complained that Hopkins is not particularly generous about giving out free money. Generous ones: UChicago, Mayo, and one very “tiny” research medical school in Cleveland: CCLCM (where every student there is expected to do research.) I think H, Y, S are relatively generous about the need-based scholarship but I am not familiar with other schools in the list.</p>
<p>The clues about which med school may be more generous 1) The schools are financially capable of being generous in “social engineering” at the UG level. (JHU is really not one of these UG colleges.) and/or 2) The size of med school tends to be smaller. 3) either very research oriented (e.g., S) or very service oriented (UChicago.)</p>
<p>BTW, UChicago is a school that is very efficient in rejecting applicants (who have high stats or not.) It could reject the applicants within a day or two if it does not find the desirable quality it values. It does not keep the applicant in a “likely silent rejection” state almost forever like many other schools will conveniently do.</p>
<p>D. got very small amount at one of the Med. Schools. We told her not to consider cost at all. She happened to like the most expnasive one of her choices and is attending there, no merit, but she had great choices and we are thankful for that, for the fact that she had an opportunity to make her choice.</p>
<p>Very much relative to the schools in question, but once you break 35 and a 3.8 you are likely to start getting offered merit money at schools where you are well above average stats wise.</p>
<p>This is correct, although don’t assume that you will be getting any merit aid at all. It is very rare. There are some schools that offer more merit aid than others.</p>