Friday, January 25, 2008

Wasted Donations

UCF claims they are halfway to raising the 6.4 million necessary to give their entire medical school inaugural class full scholarships. If UCF had not gone the scholarship route then their first year class would have consisted of students who otherwise would have gone to the Caribbean for med school. I wonder if all this scholarship money will be enough to dissuade talented students from attending an established medical school.

Frankly, with all the better charities out there (e.g., cancer research; hunger reduction programs), I’m surprised that people have spent this much money to educate a class of what will inevitably be mediocre doctors.