<p>Best bucks for the brain. LOL!</p>
<p>Assuming you mean BS/MD fast track programs, nearly all of them do not offer any merit money (since every single student accepted to one has to have lots of brains to begin with!) so----> NO bucks for the brain. </p>
<p>They do, however, offer need-based aid so —> bucks for the (relatively) poor!</p>
<p>Usually, UG college offers Merit $$. So, if school is known for good Merit scholarships, top kids get it, in combined program or not. However, since only top of the very top get into combined programs, all of them at schools like this have good Merit $$. I do not know combined programs that offer Merit $$. There is not point, they attract the very best anyway. D. got Merit scholarships at all schools that she applied, but they came from college, not the programs.</p>
<p>If you are accepted into the following programs you will likely get a decent scholarship. These usually only last during the undergraduate years:</p>
<p>University of Pittsburgh - full tuition scholarship
GW -$15k yearly scholarship
Hobart and William Smith/SUNY Upstate - full tuition
Rice/Baylor - I know Rice gives out merit scholarships, so R/B students should at least that level
USC - at least half-tuition scholarship
UMiami - around $16k or $21k a yr depending on your stats
Case Western - ranging from $22.5k to $27.5k per yr depending on stats</p>
<p>There should be more, these are the only ones I know of. In these programs, the students who get into the BS/MD are of higher caliber than the average incoming student of that school and so they will qualify for the best merit scholarships. </p>
<p>On the other hand, these are the programs I know that don’t give out merit money at all:
Brown PLME, Northwestern HPME</p>
<p>Most Rice/Baylor students receive substantial merit money applied to tuition that already is about $8000 lower than the tuition of peer universities. For those who are Texas residents when they enter medical school, BCM is an incredible bargain. The other top program that gives significant merit aid is Case Western. Many of the students in the program qualify for a full tuition Trustees scholarship, which is based largely on SAT 1 scores (>1500 M and CR).</p>
<p>I can confirm about Case Western. D. got very good one there, we would have paid only about $5,000 in tuition (out of $33,000), if she decided to attend there. However, it is almost impossible to get into PPSP at Case, D. did not get in. She is in a different combined program at state school on full tuition Merit $$.</p>
<p>The highest scholarship given at Case is in the amount of $27,500/yr. So it’s not full tuition, but covers a good portion of it. This number may have changed from last year.</p>
<p>If you are a top applicant then many colleges will offer you merit scholarships. The Ivies & some top schools only give $ based on need.</p>
<p>schrizto,
Do not forget that Merit $$ are stacked up in many cases. For, example, our state is giving good Merit $$ to top student (one from each school) that will go to in-state school (including private colleges). So, it is possible to get more than $27,500 at Case. D’s Merit $$ at Case was lower than $27,500, but she had around $2,700 from the state of Ohio, which she is using at her current college. Going in-state make sense for somebody with financial concerns.</p>
<p>Yes, when I talked about the highest merit scholarship at Case I was talking about the single biggest scholarship that is awarded. I don’t mean that that is the most money that someone can get towards tuition.</p>