Most complaints about student debt being super high either relate to law/medical school or the cost of Ivy League/SLA schools on the east coast. College is exp

Most complaints about student debt being super high either relate to law/medical school or the cost of Ivy League/SLA schools on the east coast. College is expensive, and it's bad, but private schools are an order of magnitude more expensive; the popular narrative typically ignores public schools which cost roughly 50-80K for an undergraduate degree, depending on location. Private schools run around 200K+ at full cost, I believe. I personally sucked up a fairly large of debt because I made several poor choices. This is not the case, in general, for my peers, who chose better.