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Maryland vs. Penn
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it has one of the finest facility in USA.
UMD dental school new facility is acutally the most expensive institution building in the history of Baltimore. Meaning UMD spent more money on that building than Johns Hopkins did on their Medical school.
and it will be cheap for you as well
If I were you (although I am out of state), I will pick UMD.
Penn is too expensive and I barely hear anything good about that school anyway
it has one of the finest facility in USA.
UMD dental school new facility is acutally the most expensive institution building in the history of Baltimore. Meaning UMD spent more money on that building than Johns Hopkins did on their Medical school.
and it will be cheap for you as well
If I were you (although I am out of state), I will pick UMD.
Penn is too expensive and I barely hear anything good about that school anyway
If you want to specialize and match your top school, graduate with honors, have a great gpa, ranked 1-11 in your class,...pay the extra money and go to Penn.
I calculated what the repayment plan would be like for Penn and UCSF. I think UCSF's cost-of-attendance is comparable to attending Maryland. Paying for Penn is not pretty. By going to Penn, expect to be paying back loans for longer than 10-years. I don't know how you could pay >$75,000 per year for loans on top of roughly $30,000 in taxes on a 10-year plan with a $120,000 salary. That's $15,000 in yearly take-home. Most Penn graduates ought to opt for the 30-year plan which sucks because if you continue all the way through with the 30-year plan without refinancing, you will have paid over $900,000 in loans.
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=985145
The logic of "I want to specialize therefore I will pay hundreds of thousands of dollars more to attend an Ivy League" does not make financial sense.
You don't need an Ivy degree to specialize. Whatever help that going to an Ivy might confer will never be worth the extra hundreds of thousands of dollars (or its equivalent, a decade longer in loan repayment/debt), at least for me. Those hundreds of thousands of dollars going into the pockets of big banks would be better spent supporting my parents, siblings, future family, or feeding hundreds of starving African children for years.
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=985145
The logic of "I want to specialize therefore I will pay hundreds of thousands of dollars more to attend an Ivy League" does not make financial sense.
You don't need an Ivy degree to specialize. Whatever help that going to an Ivy might confer will never be worth the extra hundreds of thousands of dollars (or its equivalent, a decade longer in loan repayment/debt), at least for me. Those hundreds of thousands of dollars going into the pockets of big banks would be better spent supporting my parents, siblings, future family, or feeding hundreds of starving African children for years.
