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<p>Hmmm, that implies that your parents do not have that much money and may have trouble paying off the loans.</p>
<p>If the loans end up being closer to $40k, that can be rather difficult to pay off on a biology graduate’s pay, especially since you are not interested in leveraging the Yale name into investment banking or management consulting. If you go to Yale, it would be better to approach computational biology from the computer science side (major in computer science and take courses in biology) rather than the biology side, in order to give your better backup options that will allow you to pay off the debt (including your parents’ debt).</p>