<p>If you are headed to grad school, you don’t want a lot of college debt hanging around your neck. Even if you would be fully funded for a Ph.D. in an STEM field, when you finally finished that degree, you’d be headed off to a horribly underpaid post-doc position and have to start paying down your undergrad loans plus whatever debt accumulated while you were in grad school.</p>
<p>Sit down with your parents, your offers, and this calculator, and see what you think: <a href=“Your Guide for College Financial Aid - Finaid”>Your Guide for College Financial Aid - Finaid;
<p>Now if money truly is no object, I’d say Barnard. But that is because I graduated from one of the other “sisters” and I’m just a huge fan of all of them. Is there anyway you could visit Barnard before you have to decide?</p>