<p>I'm sorry for posting late, but your may receive a fair amount of scholarship money for certain private meds like Stanford. We have a friend who graduated from UPenn med with well over $200k compared to our ~$110k in debt.</p>
<p>Also, classmates who did MD/PhD track graduated virtually debt-free; tuition is waived for the fifth (elective research yr) @ Stanford. </p>
<p>Of course, your mileage will vary. (Full disclosure: we graduated in 2002 so it may cost more starting out these days)</p>
<p>MSTP should be fully-funded with a stipend, not just tuition waived for one year. Was your friend's PhD not in the sciences?</p>
<p>Sorry for not being clear -- our UPenn friend w/ $200k debt did the old 4-yr route. (And then went into peds, go figure.)</p>
<p>my wife did five year plan (aka "research year"), no PhD; so for that, they waived her last year's tuition.</p>
<p>Stanford MD/PhDs get full stipends (just like everywhere else?); now many years later, the classmates who just did MD then matched into lower-paying careers are now kicking themselves in the foot.</p>
<p>Hm. Doing a quick bit of mental math, that sounds like the Penn guy either:</p>
<p>1.) Carried over quite a bit of debt from undergrad - or -
2.) Has a wealthy family which didn't want to pay for his education</p>
<p>I can't imagine Penn gave him no money AND his parents weren't able to pay for any of it.</p>
<p>Maybe. </p>
<p>1.) I'm sure she had undergrad debt, but I doubt it was more than $15k all told. (I was a beneficiary of FA from the same liberal arts college, and they are very generous w/ grants for regular kids like us.)
2.) Her family is middle class from the Boston suburbs, definitely not a rich kid; she probably didn't accept any help from her parents. She <em>did</em> complain about how UPenn didn't give her much aid and had some "buyer's remorse". The picture would have been a little better if she had gone with Darthmouth (lower med sch prestige, I know, but I hear it has excellent primary care training, more aid, & definitely cheaper to have lived in NH).</p>
<p>Oh well!</p>