<p>No undergraduate education is worth significant debt unless you are assured of a highly paid position upon completion of your degree.
As a young person (and also for many adults) it is tantalizing. Unfortunately I believe it to be an enormous mistake, one that could severely impact the quality of your life for a very long time.</p>
<p>Well said great kid!</p>
<p>The things that are true of academic doctoral programs in the sciences are less and less true of doctoral programs in the humanities–increasingly, they do cost money–and not true of post-baccalaureate professional schools. Law school, dental school, medical school, etc., cost a lot of money, and there aren’t many sources of funding for them other than loans and personal savings.</p>
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<p>Thank you so much for your well detailed answer. My one question for you is how come the admissions office does not support this research?</p>
<p>My d will be attending a flagship state school and I am fully confident that she will be able to attend the grad school of her choice without over 100k in debt.</p>
<p>@raining chexmix (cute name):</p>
<p>I think you’re making a false comparison here. No one has suggested attending an “unknown local, regional or less strong state school” to avoid a reasonable amount of loans. If a student was accepted to an upper tier college, he or she will likely have cheaper alternatives that are not bottom of the barrel. In any case, are you really suggesting that the sky’s the limit on borrowing to get into a school with perceived prestige?</p>