mikegatt
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I'm currently active duty navy and I will be leaving the military in 8 months to join the active reserves. My question today is I want to go to medical school having 10 years of active duty experience and feel it would be benefical to attend USUHS. By attending USUHS I not only can attend medical school for for free but I can also collect retirement once I'm done with my repayment time. My question is I'm currently in Maryland and the local community college offers a pre-med program but should I go that route or use my GI-bill to pay for a post bacc program. Now I'm not going to limit my choice to just USUHS since I'm a native Texas resident I can also go back home to attend schools such as Baylor or University of Texas Southwestern medical school in my hometown of Dallas, Texas. I've already spoken to both Texas schools and they will accept my post 9/11 and then use my Hazelwood Act( a benefit that service members who join out of Texas are allowed to go to any Texas public school for free) to cover the remaining cost. I have two different avenue that will allow me to attend medical school and graduate with 0 debt. I weighing my options because going through USUHS will allow me to retire from the military and I can make 80k a year in retirement for the rest of my life but going back home will allow me to not only graduate debt free but depending on the specialty I qualify for, will allow me to benefit from the higher pay much sooner. Would going through a Post-Bacc increase my chances of attending Med school(at the cost of using my post 9/11) or pay for the pre-med community college and hold on to that post 9/11 in case I get accepted into a Texas Medical school? I feel like this post is all over the pay but please be realistic with your answers.