Good Grad Program as Back Up for Med School?

juillet
Sun, 25 Aug 2013 03:59:48 +0000

To be frank, that’s a bad reason to go straight into grad school. There are other ways to deal with your student loans - forbearance, adjusted repayment programs, etc. If they are federal loans there are about 5 different ways you can repay them, many of which are income-based. If they are private loans, you can talk to your lender. It’s in their best interest to work with you to make sure you don’t default. Also, you don’t know that you won’t be able to afford to repay your loans, because you don’t even know what kind of job you’re going to get.

I honestly do not understand the idea of engineering as a back up to medical school, given that the two careers are very different. You’re essentially allowing your desire to not begin repaying your loans right away dictate your future career, and that’s not a good idea - especially not without exploring other options for repaying your loans.

A master’s program that bolster’s your application to grad school makes sense, though. I am in a school of public health, and many of my colleagues earned a master’s in public health (MPH) in order to go to med school; most of them were very successful. I also have friends who have gotten a master’s in nutrition (typically a one-year program) or a master’s in medical science like [url=Learn About the MS in Medical Sciences Program -View Video | Graduate Medical Sciences]this[/url] program at Boston U as preparation for medical school.