[DubaiSis]

Maybe force feed her a bunch of Suze Orman TV shows when she talks about school. Although she says education is good debt, there is a big ole limit to that. Being able to get through undergrad for free or with less than $10K in debt would be a huge win, and unless she's looking at Liberty, a mid-prestige school will do just fine. A state school that most people have heard of or a private that most people in your region have heard of would, IMO, fall smack in the middle of GOOD ENOUGH. But I'm not a big fan of the need to go to an uber-competitive school to get a quality education. And I believe the stats are on my side. It seems to me I've read somewhere that many people never make up the difference in cost they incurred for ridic expensive school versus the school you can afford that pre-accepts you. Here's another scenario: the University of Northern Iowa is not at all hard to get into, is the least expensive of the 3 Iowa public universities, and at least at one point had the highest rate of passing the CPA in the first try of any school in the US. Never heard of the school? Who cares! If you can get a job right after you graduate because you passed the CPA while you were still in school, you will be all about the Panthers. I don't know if there is any sort of statistic published that would apply to medicine/pre-med. Maybe ask a few doctors you know if, to do it again if they'd go to the same school, one that didn't cost so much, or if they'd have fought harder to get into Harvard or Stanford. And I have a friend who is a very successful cardiologist who went to med school in the Dominican Republic. Seriously.