I am a minority in my class... because I will have less than $50K in loans by the time I graduate DPT school. The majority of my classmates will have racked up loans from undergrad and now, they are maxing out their Grad Plus loans. Our tuition is $119K for the 3 years. No one said DPT would be cheap.
American Physical Therapy Association is fighting for physical therapists to be eligible for National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program. If you work for a qualifying undeserved community for a certain amount of years - certain loans (I'm thinking Fed loans) can be forgiven. Right now, doctors, nurses, physical assistants, midwives, psychologists, social workers qualify. But not, physical therapists...
I took time out of my busy facebook stalking schedule to fill out an email to my senator and congresswoman to support APTA in this fight. If you are an APTA member, it took me no longer than 3 minutes to do on the APTA site.
Photo from NoShootFoot Blog.
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