Most in my class either went to A&M or UT. Rarely, did anyone apply to more than one college. Same for vet school. If you lived in Texas -you applied to Texas A&M. Now, college students are applying to numerous vet schools at once and if they don't get into a state side school they apply to schools in England, Australia or the Carribean. The amount of loans they are taking out are astronomical-some up to 300,000$-committing financial suicide IMO. They will never be able to pay that back unless they marry rich or hit the lottery. I have tried to talk with students about the amount of debt they will soon be taking on but they have thick rose colored glasses and only see unicorns and rainbows
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