<p>The whole bit about the medical school loan repayments seems a little daunting as a college sophomore. I ended up taking a full-ride to a financial safety school, although I was hoping for a top-25 school coming out of high school. I often heard from friends and family the mantra “there is always graduate/medical school” to help cope with some of the sting of waitlists and rejections. Maybe, I should change it to “there are always residency programs.”</p>
<p>I know loans are essentially ubiquitous among medical students, but do you find the debt to be burdensome as an intern/resident just starting out? I’m sure those graduating medical school do not have to worry too much about repaying loans as opposed to graduating college students because the population of graduating medical students almost all go on to residencies, i.e. stable jobs from which they can repay the loans. The same cannot be said of the population of graduating college seniors.</p>