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>If I pay $60k/year, I can’t fail out. Can't fail? Not even on exams? So a mere sum of 180k USD guarantees a degree? I hope not.
by iakov 4y ago
>If I pay $60k/year, I can’t fail out.
Can't fail? Not even on exams? So a mere sum of 180k USD guarantees a degree? I hope not.
- lettergram 4y ago“I can’t fail” Not “I’m guaranteed a degree” Im saying once you fail out, $180k in debt, most peoples lives are effectively over. You have to go get a job making $40k-60k a year and pay $10-12k per year for the next 10-20 years. After taxes, food, housing.. you’ll basically have to live with your parents, will have trouble starting a family, etc
- 2muchcoffeeman 4y agoIf you managed to make it into medical school you're not a dummy just by failing organic chem. You just suck at organic chem. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that these students are smart enough to figure out something else. Except maybe the ones that signed the petition.
- the_third_wave 4y agoIt depends on how you made your way into med school. If you made it there on grades, probably. If your were quotaed in, maybe not.
- lettergram 4y agoIf you fail organic chem you can’t make it into medical school. It’s an undergraduate class.
- 2muchcoffeeman 4y agoSure, whatever. I’m saying, you can study something else.
- fallingknife 4y agoIn the US, basically yes. The liberal arts degrees had been dumbed down to the point where nobody ever failed a generation ago, so people who failed out of STEM weed out classes just majored in history or something. But now the market has figured that out, so there is a massive value premium on STEM degrees, and shifting to a history major is no longer a viable option, which is why there is now pressure to dumb down STEM degrees.