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Re:New York medical school eliminates tuition after $1B gift by paulcole on Monday February 26, 2024 @09:03PM (#39519218)
> The freshman classes could be swamped by people who aren't serious about getting a med degree. And why should they be serious?

This is not what medical school is like from the people I know.

Nobody has a bigger stick up their butts about how important their work is than medical students. Computer programmers (despite what reading comments here on HN would make you think) are at best a distant, distant second.

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Re:New York medical school eliminates tuition after $1B gift by WalterBright on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @03:18AM (#39521489)
> This is not what medical school is like from the people I know.

And those are people who are paying tuition.

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Re:New York medical school eliminates tuition after $1B gift by paulcole on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @07:48AM (#39523411)
Post hoc ergo propter hoc.

Med school students aren’t competitive type A driven psychos because they’re writing tuition checks.

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Re:New York medical school eliminates tuition after $1B gift by WalterBright on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @01:44PM (#39527856)
Your data point about students paying tuition tells us nothing about what students on a free ride would do.
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Re:New York medical school eliminates tuition after $1B gift by paulcole on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @03:11PM (#39529130)
As opposed to your loads of data and experiential knowledge of the world of medical school students?
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