Getting over giving up my dream school

ucbalumnus
Sat, 01 May 2021 21:32:15 +0000

Wouldn’t your actual dream school be a medical school?

If you do get into medical school, doing so without undergraduate debt and with the money your parents saved by your going to free college to reduce medical school debt would be another dream come true. Having less debt at the end of medical school will mean that your career and life choices will be less restricted by debt pressure.

To put it in actual numbers:

VCU: $0, medical school $400k - parents’ $120k → $280k debt at the end.
UCLA: $144k debt, medical school $400k → $544k debt at the end.

Even at physician pay levels, $264k extra debt is a significant difference.