>>>(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.
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>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.

Just to show you how old I am, my family had four children in college at the same time (one in grad school). We all won NY State Regents scholorships. The award was needs based and we qualified for quite a bit. Unfortunately, tuition was only $400/year at SUNY, the scholarship covered only tuition, and well over 1500 was "lost" to the family.