>>(I found one source that said in 2004, average debt for new doctors was between $100,000 and $150,000.)
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>>which isn't that bad considering getting a BA cost in the naborhood of $100,000, also.
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>But virtually no one graduates with the entire cost of a BA as debt. Anyone who can't get pay any of it gets grants as well as loans.
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>And, fwiw, $100,000 is low, if you're talking private university. We're paying in the neighborhood $40,000 a year for tuition, room and board for our son right now.
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That's the high end. The cost of college is exorbitant (how it continues to outrun the inflation rate is a rant of its own) but there are a lot of very good schools that don't cost that much.

Just to show you how old I am, when I was in college and the next year's tuition was announced as over $5000 there were practically riots <g>. I suspect yours was about the same.