[throwaway4u]

You could take that money and open another medical school, and you may well get a pretty good medical school, but you probably won't get one nearly as good as Hopkins'.

[notjulianjaynes]

That seems fine to me. While it sounds nice, I am skeptical this donation will do much in terms of more equitable access to higher education, precisely because John Hopkins is one of the best med schools around. To get in you already need to be privileged or exceptional and probably both. I'd love to know how many people ever have been accepted into Johns Hopkins and declined to go exclusively because of the cost of tuition; I'd be surprised if it's even like 0.5% of students.

Meanwhile, you don't need to be a genius to better yourself.

[itishappy]

Waiving tuition won't increase the number of doctors. Adding slots for students would, but that would likely also effect the quality of education.

[tengbretson]

Fortunately though, Hopkins already exists.