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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can take out private loans.

Or you can be poor enough and smart enough to attend one of those schools that offer free med school tuition.

DH graduated from med school 20 years ago and it wasn’t uncommon for people to graduate with 300k of debt. Now that number can easily be north of 500k with undergrad.[/quote]

Kids who want med school should take no undergrad loans - by any means necessary. [/quote] A doctor is better equipped than almost anyone else to pay off undergrad debt, even if you also include med school debt.[/quote]

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When the low earners make 250k and the average docs make 400k it is not hard at all for any of them to pay off loans over time.

Plus: most med schools in the T50 have need based aid now, and merit fellowships. It is becoming rare to take out the entire thing in loans. [/quote]
You’re really over estimating the ability to pay back loans. My husband was 33 years old by the time he was out of residency. So start with that salary, take half for taxes and now you likely have little in retirement or equity in your house because you got such a late start in your career so lots need to go there, and into paying for kids educations. We will have finished paying off my husband’s loans four years before we start taking out med school loans for my kids (twins going at the same time). 
Anyways - yes it’s a great salary but you are getting a late start in life making it which is a really big deal financially.  There are way easier ways to make money if that’s what you’re after. [/quote]

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