How much debt will school/lenders/feds allow a student to take on?

[ucbalumnus]

<p>

@patertrium

A bit more information on this is that I’m from the east coast and my parents are Bostonians. I loved my school which was not CMU but near Beantown. S1 is at 1550 M+CR and other scores are similar. The grandparents assume that means applications to certain schools on a certain coast.

</p>

<p>UMass - Amherst? Has respectable CS and is $20,000 less than the expensive privates… but the UCs and CSUs are still significantly less expensive as a California resident.</p>

<p>Would it be correct that your family, like so many northeasterners, tends to underrate public universities and overrate private universities?</p>