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<p>Actually, most med schools are really closer to $60,000 than $45,000 without any aid. I picked a few off the top of my head.</p>
<p>Baylor College of Medicine’s tuition & fees is just $32,000 a year for nonresident tuition and fees, but if you add in $25,000 for living expenses that’s about $57,000. </p>
<p>The Medical College of Georgia’s full-time tuition is $27,000; add about $2,000 worth of fees and $25,000 for living costs and that’s roughly $55,000 per year.</p>
<p>Stanford estimates their total student budget at $75,000 per year.</p>
<p>Mercer University’s SOM is $40,000 per year in tuition; the ~$25,000 living expenses brings it to about $65,000.</p>
<p>And the University of Rochester’s tuition at the med school is $45,000; with $25,000 of living expenses that’s about $70,000.</p>
<p>So yeah, the majority of med schools are going to cost you closer to $60,000/year…in 2014. You will be attending, at best, in 2018, after four years of tuition raises.</p>
<p>I also deliberately picked salaries for primary care physicians because I have a vested interest in encouraging more students to go into primary care rather than specialty care 
But even $250,000 would be uncomfortable paying those loans back.</p>
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<p>Not if it’s going to leave you with unbearable debt. It’s not like UC-Davis is some unknown tiny college - although even if it was, you’d probably still do well there. But UC-Davis is a well-known research university.</p>
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<p>I sympathize, but college education is a consumer product just like any other - one with a lot of emotion tied into it, but it costs money. People who work at McD’s might work just as hard - or harder - than people who work as CEOs of top companies, but they don’t get BMWs because they can’t afford them, unfortunately. It’s a hard reality of life that you begin to learn when you have to choose a college.</p>
<p>Besides, as I mentioned earlier, it’s not like your choices are BC or community college. UC-Davis is a very well-respected school. I know sometimes in-state students don’t like their state flagships because they seem too…familiar. But it is really, really a good school. Besides that, there are probably people 70 class ranks below you at BC too, since class rank isn’t the only factor in admissions to college. I went to a college where I was literally the top student admitted my year wrt SAT scores and possibly my class rank. I had a blast, I learned a lot, and I felt challenged in class. I also had the opportunity to do very, very well wrt my grades and activities had I wanted to (but I didn’t, so I did pretty well but not excellently, lol). </p>