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Paying for PT school.. - August 30, 2004 9:07:00 AM
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Bubzeebub
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How do you do it? I'm just curious because the schools I've contacted say their programs are all full time and during the day. How do the students maintain a living while attending school?
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Re: Paying for PT school.. - August 30, 2004 8:07:00 PM
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tc
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Short answer- Lots and lots of loans. Or financial aide/scholarships if you are lucky. I wish I had chosen to go to a state school and then I wouldn't still be paying off loans many years later.
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Re: Paying for PT school.. - August 30, 2004 9:09:00 PM
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Alex Brenner PT MPT OCS
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Bub,
How about having the military pay for it? The Army paid for ALL of my schooling (US Army-Baylor University in Texas) including $300 a semester for books, plus commissions you as an officer. They paid me 2nd Lieutenant salary (about $30,000 a year) while I was going to school. In return you owe the Army 4 1/2 years of time after you graduate.
By the way, I am currently still in the military living in Italy. Love'in it. Good luck.
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Re: Paying for PT school.. - August 31, 2004 6:00:00 PM
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FLAOrthoPT
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loans, you get loans for living as well as loans for school. You pay these back over the next 30 years but at interest rates that are close to free (some as low as 4% I have heard). You are not going to be real rich for the most part doing PT. If you are real worried about the cost, make sure financially you can handle not working. I know some jobs you can still do b/c of the flexibility like personal training, etc, for an hour or two here and there, but a true job where you are required to be working 20-40 hours a week will be real tough. I would say that I would have gone military if I had known about it, it allows you to practice pure PT no BS with awesome patient population, the only drawback is military life and military running you life for the next half a decade, but I'd say well worth it for being debt free and making money while in school and the invaluable experience of the direct access set up of the military. Of course I am probably making twice as much as ARMY when I was 3 years out, however, he is not 100K in debt and living a whole lot cheaper! Seriously consider the military..
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Re: Paying for PT school.. - September 1, 2004 5:18:00 AM
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Alex Brenner PT MPT OCS
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[QUOTE]the only drawback is military life and military running your life for the next half a decade,[[/QUOTE]This is true.
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