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...medical schools across the nation set records for first-year enrollment, Harvard and other Ivies are holding out. According to figures released last week by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), a record-breaking 17,759 students enrolled in medical school this fall, a 2.3 percent increase from last year. A study conducted in 2005 by the U.S. Council on Graduate Medical Education indicated that the nation faces a deficit of around 85,000 physicians, or roughly 10 percent of the workforce, by 2020. In 2006, the AAMC recommended a 30 percent increase in medical school enrollment...
...Fortunately, steps have been taken in the right direction. The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) does have a Fee Assistance Program (FAP) that reduces the MCAT registration fee from $210 to $85 and waives the AMCAS application fee for up to 12 medical schools. Moreover, after gathering data that showed the high cost deters students from applying to medical school, the AAMC broadened eligibility requirements for FAP this year; now, students with annual family incomes of up to 300 percent of the federal poverty level may qualify...
...well-served if we are making decisions entirely based on paper.”A PRESCRIPTION FOR CHANGEApplication services and medical schools say they recognize the high cost of applying, and offer assistance programs for students from low-income backgrounds. The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), which runs the AMCAS, has a Fee Assistance Program (FAP) that will reduce the MCAT registration fee from $210 to $85 and waves all application fees for up to 11 medical schools. Yet not all students qualify for such programs.“We have students who have no money and who have...
About 35,000 people applied to American medical schools last year, an increase of 3.4 percent over the previous year, according to data released recently by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Within that pool, both females and certain minority groups comprised record-high percentages...
...data released by the AAMC —which aggregates the results of the United States’ 126 accredited medical schools—also showed that more blacks and Latinos applied last year than the year before, with increases of about five percent and two percent, respectively...