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Question. What are your schools doing for you for graduation? Are you renting a bloody gown at your own expense only to return it in an hour after spending 190,000 dollars like my lovely school?
Question. What are your schools doing for you for graduation? Are you renting a bloody gown at your own expense only to return it in an hour after spending 190,000 dollars like my lovely school?
4th year problems.....lol.
Now back to immunology (sigh.....dreaming of the day I get to spend $190,000 on my gown).
Just messing with you, and congratulations btw.
He's got 99 problems but a medical degree ain't one.
We've paid graduation fees ($250) which cover the cap/gown and any other items my school deems necessary.
Agreed, it also guarantees that I will never consider donating money, via the alumni association, in the future irregardless of how much I make.
Its a small amount required to rent a gown, but it is more the principle of the thing. Spending 180-190,000 dollars on tuition alone with little to no resources the last two years, then not even getting a bloody gown covered at graduation is a slap in the face IMO.
Yes, this probably sounds like whinning, but after seeing my loan statement and then this; it just irks me. If we were not absolutely required to attend graduation to get our degrees I would not go.
Bring on the flames.
We've paid graduation fees ($250) which cover the cap/gown and any other items my school deems necessary.
$250 PER year, so $1,000 in fees.
You should be getting some kind of diamond encrusted robe.
I'd rather just pay the $200 for the gown like everyone else.
$250 PER year, so $1,000 in fees.
You should be getting some kind of diamond encrusted robe.
I'd rather just pay the $200 for the gown like everyone else.
$250 PER year, so $1,000 in fees.
You should be getting some kind of diamond encrusted robe.
I'd rather just pay the $200 for the gown like everyone else.
$250 PER year, so $1,000 in fees.
You should be getting some kind of diamond encrusted robe.
I'd rather just pay the $200 for the gown like everyone else.
I guess they figure students will complain about the fee less when it's divvied up across four years. Or, like bleaker, they are hoping we are too busy to notice. From what I hear from upperclassmen, LECOM wants you there for graduation 4-5 days ahead of time. I suppose they have activities (social and/or informational?) in those days prior to the graduation that cost money. It isn't just the cap and gown costs, I guess.
Interesting thread -- I think we had to pay for rental and then return them immediately after graduation to be able to grab our diplomas..
But all things in perspective --
Just wait until you see how much the fees are for licensure -- right around $3K in Texas for the initial and then $800 every 2 years, plus around $700 for the DEA number....
just sayin'....