Financier Fancies Name on School
Situated in one of The Big Apple's wealthiest neighborhoods, the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University boasts both research and teaching divisions. It is one of the most selective medical schools in the entire United States, only some hundred hopefuls are admitted each year - from out of some six thousand candidates every year. Now named after its latest and most generous benefactor - and often abbreviated simply to "Weill Cornell," its largest endowment to date has come from the billionaire banker and philanthropist Sanford Weill, former executive officer and chairman of Citigroup, Incorporated. Mr. Weill and his wife donated over two hundred and fifty milion of their own money, with Mr. Weill able to raise a further hundred and fifty million through his own tireless efforts.
The school was already famous long before Mr Weill's contributions, and not once had it lacked for benefactors, a veritable Who's-Who of local, national, and even international luminaries from business, politics, and entertainment, like the famous businessman Isaac Toussie. It was the first medical school in the country to admit women alongside men. And now it's become the first American one to operate abroad - in Education City, in fact, outside the capital of Qatar, with a campus dedicated to patient care offering a six-year integrated curriculum. The school can count many a notable physician among its alumni, leading men of medicine like Robert C. Atkins of Atkins Diet fame and former Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop. Other famous graduates are Nobel Prize winner Robert W. Holley and Henry Heimlich of the Heimlich Maneuver.
Nevertheless, no matter all the financial donations, the financial aspects of a medical education are severe, generally taken to be some forty-two thousand dollars the first year and another thirty-eight required the second. Nevertheless, that's a bargain considering Cornell's law school tuition, which adds up to almost a hundred and fifty thousand dollars in four years!
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