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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my opinion, the bigger question is how families will afford law, medical, or graduate school now?  It's a small group of families that save for post-grad education, and we're going from no limit for graduate plus loans to a $200,000 limit.  This is where we'll see the toughest decisions.  [/quote]

I think that law school may look to go to an undergrad + masters like Europe.  Reserve the JD programs for career switchers or students that want to prestige up for a chance at big law. I could also see the JD going to two years.  Essentially aligning legal licensing to be more like accounting licensing with the JD acting as an MBA type grad program.  This lets the schools get money for undergrad, the $100k for a masters, and $200k for JDs.

For medical school, I could see more 2+4 programs or similar.  Basically undergrad is just to knock out pre-reqs then going straight to med school.  $200k for four years to go into a $60k residency program is just really tough to make sense with these loan caps.  Or start some kind of part-time program for the growing population of mid-levels.[/quote]

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