So talking about tuition is a stupid coversation? You just don't get it. Something can be done. Write to your legislators and urge them to invest in more Georgia doctors. Last time I checked, we needed more family doctors. How will med students being in more debt help increase the amount of family doctors?
Family doctors can get their entire debt paid off if they are willing to work for 4 years in an underserved area of the state. It's a great gig, and plenty of people take advantage of it if they decide to stay in primary care.
Employee's? I was an employee at MCG as well before starting medical school here, so don't think you're the only one that made **** for money before they stated school, or has to deal with days off without pay. Try being a doctor at MCG that lost 15k for those days. Maybe they should just fire a bunch of people so that the others can continue making what they were originally, or perhaps even get a yearly raise! After all, MCG is just an evil empire that acts out irrationally, has loads of money that they keep from everyone (outside of the administration), and they don't care about their employees.
Either way, quite pointing fingers at MCG for doing the best that they can with what they have. If it's too rich for your taste, continue being a lab rat (which I assume you're a research associate right now of some sort) and live the good life off the 35k/year that you're getting. After all, why be a slave to debt when you can be a slave to a dead end job with no future and no chance to make any real money.
Where does all this anger even come from? I hope you settle down before you get here, b/c you're going to piss a lot of people off with that level of anger. You're at the bottom of the ladder as a medical student, so deal with the deck that you've been dealt.
Having an acceptance to any medical school, much less one that ranks in the bottom 1/2 tuition wise, is a golden ticket to future financial stability, job insurance, and an opportunity to do something good for your family and your patients. Be thankful for what you have received. The state doesn't care that you now have to pay the average price for medical school tuition.
PS. The SOM alone pays more than $20,000,000 in tuition each year. How is $3,000,000 going to lock tuition for the entire school for years?
