<p>Ditto to blinkangel, BU and NU aren’t really that different. They’re both big, urban schools with more or less equal academics and opportunities. It’s not like BU will make you super happy and NU will make you super miserable. I think if you can be happy at BU, you can be happy at northeastern.</p>
<p>I don’t think you’re crazy for still wanting to go to BU despite the $$… but I do think it’s easy to underestimate how much 100k in debt is.</p>
<p>You graduate college at 22ish (or 23ish if you do co-op). You’ll have a social life and want to go out for lunch or dinner or drinks with friends, you’ll want to travel, you’ll want to go to concerts and events, you’ll want to apply to jobs/grad school in cool other places. You’ll have rent to pay, you’ll have cable/internet/gas/electricity bills, maybe car payments, maybe phone payments, etc. Most of us can afford to do these things on the (very small) salary of new graduates. We’re all totally broke, but we can do it, and it’s totally worth it because it’s a fun age and it doesn’t last forever.</p>
<p>But with 100k in debt, you’re going to have serious financial obligations, and you’ll have to sacrifice some of these great things to pay of your loans. Going to a school that makes you happy is great, but not if it’s going to make your life suck once loan repayment starts. </p>
<p>Personally, I would be terrified of graduating with that much debt. If we were talking about two completely different schools in different places with very different feels, that’s one thing… but BU and NU aren’t different enough to warrant all that debt, in my opinion.</p>