What they are trying to do will crash and burn. Mark my words. Keep this point and read it in a few years. Who wants to go to med school, do 8 years of undergrad and med school plus 3-6 extra years of training for 200-300k? You realize that you can do finance, marketing, consulting, etc and make that kind of money with farrrrrr less training and work. They can try what they want but if they continue chipping away at salaries there will be no doctors left. Why would peopl ewaste years of their life on this if they can choose a different field that's easier and pays similarly?
Think medicine will always be desirable. Medicine is still relatively prestigious. It currently offers salary and job placement guarantees that other fields do not including finance, marketing, etc. Most premeds do not understand how difficult both training and practice is. Their impression of an average doctor's lifestyle is likely not accurate. They are still idealistic and want to help people and be a hero. They do not understand what a huge negative impact loans will have on their life.