Maximize Your Med School Scholarships 💰 | Merit Aid & Full-Ride Strategy
You worked hard to get the acceptance — now let’s make sure you are not leaving scholarship money on the table. 💰🎓 I personally received 10 medical school acceptances and full-ride scholarships from six schools. Since then, I’ve helped other applicants think through competing offers and scholarship strategy, including cases involving hundreds of thousands of dollars in merit aid. In this package, we’ll review your acceptances, current scholarship offers, and overall situation and build a personalized strategy for approaching schools. I’ll help you identify where you have leverage, decide which schools to contact, and determine the best timing and framing for scholarship reconsideration requests. I’ll also review and edit your scholarship emails or letters so they are clear, persuasive, and professional. If you have competing offers, we’ll discuss how to present them strategically without sounding transactional or adversarial. The goal is not just to ask for more money — it is to make the strongest possible case for why a school should increase its offer. 💸
What's included
We’ll start with a live session where we go through your acceptances, scholarship offers, school preferences, and any competing financial-aid packages. From there, I’ll help you develop a specific strategy rather than sending the same generic scholarship request to every school. I’m very direct and hands-on. We’ll talk through where you actually have leverage, what is worth asking for, and how aggressive or conservative to be. I can then review and edit your outreach before you send it. 📩 My goal is for you to leave knowing exactly what to do next — which schools to contact, what to say, and how to respond as new offers come in. 🎓💰
- 💰 Personalized scholarship and financial-aid strategy based on your acceptances and offers
- 📊 Review of competing offers and identification of your strongest negotiating leverage
- ✍️ Edited scholarship reconsideration / negotiation email or letter
- 🎯 Clear plan for which schools to approach, in what order, and how to frame each request
Meet your expert
Sam M.
MD | 10 Acceptances | 6 Full Rides | Published Researcher
Hi! 👋 I’m a UCLA medical student 🩺 currently at Stanford as a Sarnoff Fellow, working at the intersection of medicine, AI , and computer science 💻. Before medical school, I studied CS at WashU 🎓, worked at McKinsey, and then joined Gates Ventures, where I focused on digital health and primary care 🌎. Research has become a big part of what I do 🔬📚. I’ve published around 20 papers and abstracts across clinical AI, digital medicine, biomedical engineering, and clinical research, with work appearing in journals including Nature Communications, Science Advances, Advanced Science, npj Digital Medicine, and JNCI. I also love building things 🛠️ in my free time, especially open-source software and random technical projects 💻🤖. I was accepted to 10 medical schools 🎉 and received multiple full-ride scholarships 💰🎓. Since then, I’ve helped friends and other applicants navigate applications, interviews, and scholarship decisions ✍️, including helping people secure hundreds of thousands of dollars in merit scholarships 💸. Outside of work, I’m into cooking 🍳, diving 🤿, and hiking 🥾🏔️. I climbed Kilimanjaro a few years ago 🌍 and Mt. Whitney this past May 🏔️. I also play a little guitar and harmonica 🎸🎶 and am getting married this October 💍🥂.