Fly there? No rental car unless you shell out tons of money. Not to mention a lot of students are under 25 so that raises a car rental issue.
Hotel @ a modest $60 a night x 7 weeks x 7 days = Around 3k
Can you cook in the hotel if not gotta eat out.. = 1k (if you eat crap)
Flight there and back - 500 if your lucky...
Probably come out to an extra 5k per distance clinical...
Someone please tell me I am wrong.
Well..you can easily cut that in half depending on where you go.
First - Don't stay in a hotel -- find a place you can sublet -- odds are you're looking at a range of $400-$700/mth (again, HIGHLY depends on where you end up, but I guarantee this will be a cheaper option than staying in a hotel).
So this puts "rent" costs at $800-1400 for the 7 weeks. At the same time, try to sublet YOUR place/room and you might just break even there! Or even come out on top if you are doing your affiliation in a city w/ lower costs of living.
Second - now that you are subletting a place, yay for at home cooking! Saves you money right there.
Third - I find the $500 flight for there/back definitely arguable, as I know it's possible to fly cross-country for $300 if you are willing to take the lame flight times and you hunt for those tickets. Now, $500+ is definitely a reasonable estimate for travel expenses if you also take into consideration cost of traveling between your place of residence and the clinic.
So let's call housing at $1400, food at $600, and transportation costs at $500 -- so there ya go -- $2500 for the affiliation.
For fun, lets say that you are able to sublet your place for $400/month -- giving you $800 to balance. So that makes the cost of a distant affiliation at $1700, and then let's subtract the $600 for food (hey, you'll be eating no matter where right?) and another $100 for transportation (still gotta get around at your own school) -- this puts you at a net cost of $1000 for the distant affiliation for 7 weeks.
To ppl reading -- these numbers are completely pulled out of the air, and simply used to make the point that a distant affiliation does not need to drastically add to your cost of tuition/attendance.
Hope that gives you another perspective!