Originally posted by shamus1
Duke & Vanderbilt provide lodging and up to $300 for travel costs. One of the Chicago schools is supposed to put you up at a plush hotel. WashU is da' bomb--they buy your plane tickets, pay for everything and give you a suite at a nice hotel. Many programs don't give you S*** until they decide to admit you, then they wine and dine you like you are a NBA lottery pick. It's great that some programs take care of you when you interview, just like a company would do if they were interviewing you for a skilled job. PhD programs usually pay at least some of the costs for interviewing applicants; why can't MD/PhD programs do the same? One of the guys who went to Hopkins last year, I think his name was Baylor, said that his credit card balance went up something like $10,000 due to the cost of applying and interviewing. That is scary.