ND full price with med school in future

CornyDad
Thu, 08 Mar 2018 15:29:08 +0000

Your first mistake was becoming emotionally attached to a school as perfect and dream school before receiving all financial aid offers. Emotions cloud our ability to reason clearly and make the best decision, and set us up for deep disappointment when things like financial aid packages don’t go as planned. Any of those schools you mentioned is a fine fine school for preparing you for medical school and will become “perfect” and “a dream” as you make friends and enjoy the college atmosphere and your classes. Maybe they’re not interchangeable schools, but as long as they prepare you to be accepted to a med school, then that “checks the box”.

My daughter had her heart set on a school but the financial aid wasn’t as good as ND so it crushed her that her perfect/dream school #1 would incur more debt than ND, and went to ND. Now she’s loving her #2 school (ND). Lots of students are happy at their #2 or #3 schools.

In another post somewhere about debt, someone said “debt is slavery” which has stuck with me – for example, what if you become one of the many doctors who becomes burned out in the profession (it happens A LOT) and wants to switch careers or positions – with so much debt you don’t have the freedom to work fewer hours or take a position that pays less.

Best of luck deciding what is best for you. It would be helpful to this community if you posted your decision here after you make it since there is no right answer, only assumptions to consider in answering the question.