Is USC worth full tuition?

Gardna
Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:28:05 +0000

I wouldn’t recommend it.



It would be entirely different if this were Harvard, where obviously the degree is worth the financial strain and the debt.



I wouldn’t recommend it even for Harvard. Harvard is an amazing school, but graduating with up to a max of about $200,000 in debt with the intention of continuing onto medical school (which will unleash more debt) is just an awful idea. It might not even be possible, since there actually is an upper limit on how much you can borrow in student loans from the feds and there is always the risk that you’ll be denied from private loans if you start failing credit checks.

You can easily do undergrad at a cheaper school and go to a more prestigious medical school. I’ve never known the undergraduate schools of any of the doctors I’ve ever met, and once you start medical school you’ll find that all you need is a solid foundation to be successful at pretty much any career.