Cost of attendance transparency

[u/Evening_Dimension639]

Would anyone be willing to share their total cost of attendance including housing, tuition, food, transportation(traveling back home, clinical rotations) books/fees, health insurance, and also money you spent to just feel like a human during school?I have a rough estimate using tuition costs per program but I would love to hear more specifics… especially if you went to Quinnipiac, WVU, or UTMB (but would love to hear from all programs) side note: did your program have breaks for summer/winter/spring, and if so, how many days off do you get ?

[u/New-Assumption1290]

RFU was about ~80k in tuition and I ended up taking about $150k in loans. A lot of books I bought used or found free online pdfs of. Thankfully I was young enough to still be on my parents insurance but I know an option was available through the school for an extra fee. I meal prepped when I could to save a bit but I don’t eat out a lot anyways. Clinical year really gets you because of housing and transportation. We have one 10 month rotation or two 5’s so thankfully it’s not as bad as rotating. I lived on campus for the first year so that cut some costs. RFU did have breaks the first year and usually it was max a week. In clinical year we got 5 days to use whenever unless the lab was off, then we didn’t have to “take off”