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Some prospective students may be eligible for a fee waiver that covers application fees, experts say.     There are two major financial costs most prospective medical students face in their quest to become a doctor. The first occurs when they're trying to become a competitive medical school applicant and spend thousands on MCAT preparation classes or a postbaccalaureate program. The second comes once they're enrolled in a school and billed for tuition, fees and sometimes health insurance. The total was as high as $82,251 for some students during the 2013-2014 school year, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Between these two financial hurdles is another expense that applicants must also plan for: application fees. [Find out which medical school grads have the most debt.] "It is expensive to apply to medical school," says Thomas Levitan, vice president of research at the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Me...