<p>Depends on how you pay it. If you have the money in your pocket or you can limit your borrowing to about…hmm, I’d say maybe $30-40K total - then I’d say it’s totally worth it. But if you have to borrow more than $50K total to go to the school or your parents are going to go deeply into debt to pay, then I’d say that’s not worth it.</p>
<p>I also would be careful going by major and whether you plan to go to grad school. I knew a lot of people (including myself) who tripped off to college thinking they were going to go to medical school and become doctors, only for them to change their mind 1 or even 2 years in and do something else. But if you really DO want to go to medical school, that’s even more reason to limit your undergrad debt.</p>
<p>Seriously, UNC-Chapel Hill is a great school and I would go there for in-state fees over any one of those other schools unless I had money coming out of my ears. If I hadn’t gotten a scholarship to go to my LAC, I would’ve gone to the University of Georgia. Med schools don’t really care where you went; they care about your MCAT scores and your GPA and whether you have any volunteering or internship experience in medicine. And it’s kind of laughable to think that they would reject a UNC-CH student just for their school…it’s one of the best public universities in the nation.</p>