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by indoordin0saur 829 days ago
I know many people who have attended ivy league schools and $100k+ debt is not unusual among them.
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Not statistically it isn't. I invite you to cite data. Again, you can't get a bank to write you loans of that size without collateral of some kind. Banks will write loans for the subsidized amount (currently capped at $31k per student federally), plus some from other guarantee sources like state programs, and throw in a little on the expectation of future salary. The only people getting $100k loan balances as undergraduates are people whose parents are co-signing (or who otherwise have something that looks like collateral to a bank).

Note that's not true of post-graduate schools. In particular banks are willing to tolerate a much higher debt load for med school students. But the discussion here is about "Does Stanford require more debt than other schools". And it does not.

Maybe Stanford is better. My reference would be attendees of Princeton and Columbia.