$85K is the sticker price at Columbia. Very few people actually pay that much, let alone take out loans for 500K. Sad how fake info is the top thread at HN. In

$85K is the sticker price at Columbia. Very few people actually pay that much, let alone take out loans for 500K. Sad how fake info is the top thread at HN. In particular Columbia will never make you take out loans: https://cc-seas.financialaid.columbia.edu/how/aid/works https://cc-seas.financialaid.columbia.edu/how/aid/works. The kind of people who would get zero aid from Columbia would be very unlikely to be taking out loans to begin with.