Cal's Career Center Health Team

Pre-Med? Prepare with these upcoming events

We've been getting a lot of visits from folks who have questions about the medical school application process.  Your many questions will be answered in our upcoming Med School Applications workshop.  We don't review personal statements during appointments at the Career Center, so our Writing the Personal Statement for Medical/Health School workshop will prepare you to develop a solid draft to submit to our Online Statement Review service.  Also, UCSF Medical School is offering an information session you won't want to miss.  Visit this link to our Career Center calendar with dates at times for these and other events. 

Fee Assistance Programs

With the new AMCAS application season coming up, we want to make sure that you are ready for the costs associated with applying to medical school.  AMCAS offers a Fee Assistance Program that can help reduce the cost of primary applications for eligible students.  Here is some information from the AAMC website: 

The AAMC believes that the cost of applying to medical school should not be a financial barrier to individuals who are interested in becoming physicians. The AAMC Fee Assistance Program (FAP) assists MCAT examinees and AMCAS applicants who, without financial assistance, would be unable to take the MCAT examination or apply to medical schools that use the AMCAS application.

Applicants who are approved for fee assistance in 2008 receive the following benefits from the AAMC:

• Reduction of the MCAT registration fee from $210 to $85 for any registration submitted subsequent to the date of approval during the 2008 calendar year
• Waiver of the application fee of $520 for submitting the completed AMCAS application to up to 13 medical schools. Applicants pay $30 for each school beyond the 13 free applications.

In addition, most AMCAS-participating medical schools waive their supplemental application fees for applicants who have been granted fee assistance by the AAMC.