Does your home school reimburse for away fees?

[Smiths11]

I'm a DO student, and some of my away electives are charging $100-$200 just to rotate. I asked my home school about reimbursing for these costs, because technically they are tuition, no? But they are refusing, which makes no sense to me. What the hell is the $50,000 tuition money for then?

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[ProfMD]

It sucks that these other places are charging you - I don't remember being charged but it was a while ago.

Your tuition, high as it is, pays only a portion of the cost of running your school. None of those costs go down just because you are away for a month or two.

 

[Psai]

lol wow, wonder what that's paying for. bloated administation salaries no doubt

 

[gregoryhouse]

The majority of away rotations I applied to had charges for rotating with them. Since it has nothing to do with your school then I can't really blame your school for not funding it. It sucks but I feel like almost everyone is trying to funnel money off of med students now and there is not much we can do about it.

 

[qwerty89]

Your tuition, high as it is, pays only a portion of the cost of running your school. None of those costs go down just because you are away for a month or two.

 

[ProfMD]

I didn't say it paid a portion of the cost of educating you, I said it paid a portion of the cost of running your school. These are two different statements. The former statement is the one Dr Sowell would argue against, the latter is the statement I made.

https://www.aamc.org/data/finance/461100/figures1-2.html

 

[jw3600]

For DO schools the title of this thread could be "Does your home school reimburse for ______?" and the answer will always be no.