Deborah German hopes to have 100 applicants for every spot in the first-ever class at the University of Central Flordia's medical school — and she's already most of the way there.
German, the dean of UCF's nascent med school, is offering an astonishingly potent lure in an era of crushing student debt: Four-year scholarships for tuition, fees and living expenses for every member of the first-year class.
As of this morning, the school had received 2,996 applications for its charter class of 40, which will enter next year. That's a ratio that would be the envy of the deans at the nation's top medical schools. The application period started a few months ago, and it runs through December.
"I think it's very important for a brand new school to have excellent students in the first class because they will help us," German told the Health Blog in a phone conversation this afternoon. "They will criticize what we have put together and help us mold this school."
The med school is a public institution, but the $7 million needed to fund the charter class came from individuals and private philanthropies. There was no single donor who did most of the work; the two largest gifts were each a bit over $300,000, German said.
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