PSA: if your kid wants to go to medical school for free

[Anonymous]

Einstein and NYU will definitely be the best medical schools in the country. No contest.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/albert-einstein-college-medicine-offer-185317271.html

They are offering free tuition after receiving a $1billion gift.

Now that's how colleges should be using endowments.

Because the person donating often dictates how their money must be used. Same situation here. This is not some wonderful thing the school decided, it's the wonderful thing the gift giver did.

I know, but the schools should insist on it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Einstein and NYU will definitely be the best medical schools in the country. No contest.

This is not how it works. The best medical schools are primarily determined by the research at each school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another route to free med school is to join the military. No tuition and you get junior officer pay while being a student.

Difficult with kids who have asthma

[Anonymous]

But they don’t have a climbing wall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another route to free med school is to join the military. No tuition and you get junior officer pay while being a student.

Difficult with kids who have asthma

It’s not all about your snowflake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another route to free med school is to join the military. No tuition and you get junior officer pay while being a student.

Difficult with kids who have asthma

It’s not all about your snowflake.

Do you think pp's kid is the only kid in the country with asthma? Or some other disqualifying condition?

[Anonymous]

DH's alma mater! This is outstanding news for future Einstein grads and will hopefully encourage more bright kids to go into medicine. FWIW DH graduated from Einstein with 250K in debt (which we have thankfully paid off).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another route to free med school is to join the military. No tuition and you get junior officer pay while being a student.

Difficult with kids who have asthma

Which underlines the fact that it’s not merely a free ride to med school. Asthma or no, it’s not for everyone.

[Anonymous]

I’d be more thrilled if the takers were guaranteeing they’d go into general practice, pediatrics, etc.

But when they all go into orthopedics or other high-paying specialties and end up making buckets of money anyway….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH's alma mater! This is outstanding news for future Einstein grads and will hopefully encourage more bright kids to go into medicine. FWIW DH graduated from Einstein with 250K in debt (which we have thankfully paid off).

Their acceptance rate is already sub 4%. Almost every kid going to medical school is a perfect student, how much brighter do you want?

[Anonymous]

The medical school in Bethesda is free

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH's alma mater! This is outstanding news for future Einstein grads and will hopefully encourage more bright kids to go into medicine. FWIW DH graduated from Einstein with 250K in debt (which we have thankfully paid off).

Their acceptance rate is already sub 4%. Almost every kid going to medical school is a perfect student, how much brighter do you want?

I'm thinking of all the kids we went to college with (DH and I went to same undergrad) who went to work on Wall Street, rather than pursue medicine because - in part - you can make a lot of money in finance right away and med school is $$$.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:in Bronx?!!?

Yes, idiot the "Bronx"
It is one of the best medical schools in the country.

OMG just stop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's about to be one of the hardest medical schools in the country to get into

My first thought.

That's amazing . . . and will be impossible to get into.