Comments on: Why Don’t They… Just Match Harvard’s Generosity? http://blog.filife.com/why-dont-they-just-match-harvards-generosity/ A production of FiLife, a new personal-finance site that goes live later this year. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:44:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Ron Lieber http://blog.filife.com/why-dont-they-just-match-harvards-generosity/#comment-437 Ron Lieber Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:19:30 +0000 http://www.filife.com/why-dont-they-just-match-harvards-generosity/#comment-437 medical students really lose out here. i think we'll see a day soon where the well-endowed medical schools will somehow subsidize people who go into primary care and stay there for a certain amount of time. there's not a lot of sympathy for anyone earning six figures right out of school, so it may take a while. but primary care docs deserve it imho, and if we don't make the debt burden easier on them, there won't be enough of them in the future. not sure about columbia, though i do know they were implicated in the student loan scandal. so not only might they not be keeping up with competition, they might well have been effectively allowing more money to be taken out of needy students' pockets than was necessary. nice, huh?! medical students really lose out here. i think we’ll see a day soon where the well-endowed medical schools will somehow subsidize people who go into primary care and stay there for a certain amount of time. there’s not a lot of sympathy for anyone earning six figures right out of school, so it may take a while. but primary care docs deserve it imho, and if we don’t make the debt burden easier on them, there won’t be enough of them in the future.

not sure about columbia, though i do know they were implicated in the student loan scandal. so not only might they not be keeping up with competition, they might well have been effectively allowing more money to be taken out of needy students’ pockets than was necessary. nice, huh?!

]]> By: Mike http://blog.filife.com/why-dont-they-just-match-harvards-generosity/#comment-430 Mike Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:32:59 +0000 http://www.filife.com/why-dont-they-just-match-harvards-generosity/#comment-430 Swarthmore made a similar announcement. I think on the same day perhaps? http://www.swarthmore.edu/x16499.xml Swarthmore made a similar announcement. I think on the same day perhaps?

http://www.swarthmore.edu/x16499.xml

]]> By: kandi http://blog.filife.com/why-dont-they-just-match-harvards-generosity/#comment-417 kandi Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:20:31 +0000 http://www.filife.com/why-dont-they-just-match-harvards-generosity/#comment-417 That is all wonderful. What about medical education? When you graduate with a quarter million dollars of debt that is already earning interest, it restricts your specialty options. No Pediatrics, no serving the community, you have to choose something high earning simply to pay off the debt. That is all wonderful. What about medical education? When you graduate with a quarter million dollars of debt that is already earning interest, it restricts your specialty options. No Pediatrics, no serving the community, you have to choose something high earning simply to pay off the debt.

]]> By: Jeremy http://blog.filife.com/why-dont-they-just-match-harvards-generosity/#comment-414 Jeremy Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:02:04 +0000 http://www.filife.com/why-dont-they-just-match-harvards-generosity/#comment-414 How about Columbia? How about Columbia?

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