<p>Thank you all for your help especially taking your time to do these calculations! I feel like some are screwed for worse case scenarios (med school seems to be closer to 45 than 60 without aid and the average salary for orthopedic surgeons I read was closer to 250,000 per year) regardless I definitely don’t want my life “crushed” because of debt. I’m sure I want to do med school but if I chickened out wouldn’t it be wiser to get a degree from a more prestigious school - since that’s what most pre meds seem to do? And from what I’m hearing should I consider community college and turn down my options because of financial obstacles (my list includes University of Michigan Boston College Boston University Cal Poly UC Davis and UC San Diego - Davis being the cheapest after aid and BC the school I want to attend)</p>