Yea, the video reviewers are pulling numbers out their asses or simply don't know how to read the data they are reviewing when talking about paying back 150k in 10 years.
That they are lol
But I'm still not seeing how you are getting payments of 2k a month unless you are planning on stretching out your repayment longer. How much debt do you think you will have when you graduate? Are all your loans going to be at 7.9% now that the government has cut out subsidized loans?
plug in the following into the site you linked to:
Loan Amount: 150000
Annual Interest Rate: 8%
Length (years): 10
Your monthly payment will come out to 1819.91. I am assuming all will be at 8% so that I can estimate conservatively.
Maybe the calculator I'm using is wrong in its calculations somwhere, but even plugging in 200k for student loans in that calculator for a 10 year repayment puts the monthly payments at 2.4k. 3k a month sounds swell, but when you add in other costs, car, house, family, savings, it stretches pretty thin.
Remember that the average family in America makes around 50K a year (pre-tax). Making 36K a year post tax, is not bad! Once again, This would be for your first year, not your overall salary.
Obviously there are other factors to consider, such as if and when you get your own practice, your earning potential may increase significantly to where you can pay back your student loans and practice debt without batting too much of an eyelash. Are you considering this into your projections as well?
Yup. However, I am planning on being about 354K in debt (give or take 10K), making about 120K a year starting (give or take 10K). I am also planning on deferring PMTs for the first 6 months, and will start out with a 30 year pmt plan, and decrease the duration as I begin to make more money. The most important thing here is that I plan to live frugally. I am quite poor how it is now, so this won't be much of a burden on me haha.
I'm not saying it's all doom and gloom getting into dentistry, but the large debt burden is nothing to scoff at. Please share what it is you're thinking, it sounds like you know something we don't that would help put us all more at ease with the calculated risks of getting into dentistry.
I could not agree more that the debt burden for a dental student is nothing to scoff at. However, I think the meaning of my first post is being pulled out of context. IF someone was 150K in debt, you can easily pay it off making less than what those in the video were saying. Nothing more haha