Carson '06 Wins $25,000 Medical School Scholarship
November 3rd, 2009
Tobin Carson '06, a first-year medical student at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, has been awarded a renewable $25,000 grant from the Doctors for Maine's Future Scholarship Program. She is one of only four people in Maine who qualified for the grant. Maine Governor John Baldacci spoke of Carson and her path to medical school in a May 2009 address: "At age 15, she announced her dream of going to medical school," said Baldacci, as reported by the Morning Sentinel. "Unfortunately, she was discouraged from pursuing that dream, being told, 'People like you don't go to places like that.' Not long after that, Tobin quit high school, feeling that it wasn't doing her any good. But she never stopped learning, and her desire to go to medical school never faded. After her children were born, she got her GED certificate and enrolled in the University of Maine at Farmington full time as a biology major."
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