Dartmouth Medical School scholarship was awarded when the financial need exceeded the base loan. The first portion of any financial aid award is the Federal Stafford Loan. Students and applicants should contact their previous Stafford Loan lender, if applicable, or contact their local bank, credit union or other lender for an application, or our office for other suggestions. The second portion of the base loan is met with a limited quantity of need-based loans such as the Federal Perkins Loan, the Dartmouth Medical School Loan and the Dartmouth Education Association Loan. The remainder of the base loan is met with DELC Loan funds from the Dartmouth Educational Loan Corporation.
Many students wish to declare independence from their parents.
Some have been independent for several years. While we are sensitive to the desire of these students to become independent of their families, we are not in a position to have students transfer financial dependence from their parents to the School. For determining students' financial aid packages, independent students are those who can support themselves, including medical school expenses. Therefore, statements of parental income are required of all applicants who wish to apply for institutional need-based loans and scholarships . This policy helps to insure that, so far as possible, students are able to study medicine at Dartmouth Medical School regardless of their social and economic background.