I'm a junior in college and I'm looking into medical schools. The problem is I'm going to need to work while in medical school to pay rent, bills and such. While attending medical school, did any of you live with parents or family without working? Or were you able to afford your own place while in medical school?
2007-02-04 08:23:54 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
You don't work while in med school or you will never cut it, for goodness sake you should know that, that is a completely wrong notion. It is practically required that you work at it full time, and take out loans. Big loans. The idea is if you made it through med school, you will have no problem paying back the loans.
Usually in grad schools you don't go unless they are paying you a stipend to do it, and if you are good enough to get accepted to medical school, they will offer you some type of financial aid package to make it all the way through, and it's going to no doubt include loans. Live frugally and keep your expenses down.
2007-02-04 08:33:11 · answer #1 · answered by Carmen S 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
When you go to medical school you are allowed to borrow funds above the cost of tuition in order to be able to afford to live. I get around $1500 per month to live off of. I have a few friends that worked on weekends occasionally, but no one is able to work full time at another job. For the first two years you will have several hours of class a day and then spend several hours studying each night. The second two years are spent in the hospital and are even longer (easily 70+ hours/week in some rotations). I am a fourth year student and will be graduating in a few months with around $170,000 in loans. It sounds scary (and is) but I should be able to pay it off soon.
If you are interested in the process of medical school and becoming a doctor you can check my blog at www.medwanderer.com Good luck if you decide to go to med school!
2007-02-04 09:16:10 · answer #2 · answered by treponemapox 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Very few of the student at Harvard Med are "rich." You need to do your research and cultivate a better attitude if you want to accomplish anything, much less attend Harvard. First of all, the average medical student finished four years of med school with more than $150,000. Minority students report debt for medical school as high as $350,000. This debt comes from various student loan programs and private loan programs. Harvard has such extensive endowments, in fact, that it could remain open forever and ever and never charge another dime tuition to a single student. Suffice it to say they have extensive scholarship programs available to worthy students. The military is another option. Those who are accepted at Harvard Med are the elite of that year's national application pool. By the time you get accepted at Harvard Med, you will have figured it out and put it all together. No one gets accepted to Harvard and then realizes "duh, I can't afford it." You should read carefully over your post: you've selected the school based on what-I-don't-know and then immediately taken yourself out of the running based on a fictional obstacle that you put in your own way. Again: with that attitude. you'll never get anywhere. If you have your sights on Harvard Med, then you first need to find out how to be one of the "elite." Focus your time and energies there, rather than on things over which you have absolutely no control. Being "rich" has absolutely nothing to do with it and maintaining a mindset that it does will only serve to keep you from your dreams.
2016-05-24 05:37:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most doctors have over a hundred thousand dollars in loans by the time they graduate. You'll be able to pay it off in a few years by living frugally on a doctor's salary (or maybe 15 years).
2007-02-04 08:46:30 · answer #4 · answered by eri 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I personally did not go to Med school, but I know someone who lived in her own place while going to med school and worked at Hooters, and she survived just fine! It sounds silly, but I'm totally serious!
And there's no shame in living with mom and dad while going to school, as long as they're not fully responsible for you financially, don't weeze off the parents! Do your part, if not more, to help out when you can. If you can't help pay bills, keep their place clean for them, do their dishes and laundry, you get the idea!
2007-02-04 08:29:54 · answer #5 · answered by collegebutterfly73 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I signed up for a little indentured servitude (they called it a scholarship) with the armed forces. It was really a good deal. They picked up all expenses and paid a living stipend, and I only owed four years' service for the four years' school they paid for. And I got to pay a service to my country in doing so.
2007-02-04 10:07:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
gonna hav to work, live with someone if possible, and oh yeah student loans are a *****
2007-02-04 08:27:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I danced at a strip club on nights and weekends.
2007-02-04 08:26:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
you have rich family members.
2007-02-04 08:26:28 · answer #9 · answered by Kelly B 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋