Thing is they get wait listed too. How dental school became so crazy competitive with the amount of debt they go into, I have no idea. Do people not know what interest is?
You look at some of the dental schools and its like 115K/year for everything, tuition, fees, insurance, housing, etc. They come out 500K in debt after interest making about 130K/year.
Plus, did they forget to mention tuition goes up by 3-5% every year?
To be fair, Podiatry also has this problem, to about a 40K/year lesser degree. When I was Accepted, I got a noticed that I had been cleared for 75K in student loans for the first year. Wow. So I would have gotten out with about 350K in debt after interest.
The salary threads for DPM give me hope tho. Most pods are making in the 180-200K, and after taxes is thats like 120K. If you live on 30K/year, you can pay off your loans in 5 years.
Gotta pump those numbers. Those are rookie numbers.