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Loans for Disadvantaged Students
The Loans for Disadvantaged
Students program provides long-term, low-interest rate loans to full-time,
financially needy students from disadvantaged backgrounds, to pursue a
degree in allopathic medicine, osteopathic medicine, dentistry, optometry,
podiatric medicine, pharmacy or veterinary medicine.
Participating schools
are responsible for selecting loan recipients, making reasonable determinations
of need and providing loans which do not exceed the cost of attendance
(tuition, reasonable educational expenses and reasonable living expenses
Eligible Disciplines
Under this program,
funds are awarded to accredited schools of
- allopathic medicine
- osteopathic medicine
- dentistry
- optometry
- pharmacy
- podiatric medicine
- veterinary medicine
Eligible Applicants
You are eligible to
apply for this loan at a school that participates in the Loans for Disadvantaged
Students program if you are
- From a
disadvantaged background as defined by the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services:
An individual from a disadvantaged background is defined as one who
comes from an environment that has inhibited the individual from obtaining
the knowledge, skill, and abilities required to enroll in and graduate
from a health professions school, or from a program providing education
or training in an allied health profession; or comes from a family with
an annual income below a level based on low income thresholds according
to family size published by the U.S. Bureau of Census, adjusted annually
for changes in the Consumer Price Index, and adjusted by the Secretary,
HHS, for use in health professions and nursing programs.
- A citizen,
national, or a lawful permanent resident of the United States
or the District of Columbia, the Commonwealths of Puerto Rico or the
Marianas Islands, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the American Samoa, the
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Republic of Palau, the Republic
of the Marshall Islands and the Federated State of Micronesia.
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