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<p>You are headed into a professional field that does not pay well relative to many others. The kind of debt loads you are considering are beyond excessive. They are absolutely life-crushing, even for students who are planning on well-paying careers. Please, please do your future self the favor of looking around for options that won’t require any more debt than the Stafford Loan maximum.</p>