Expensive private school or state flagship?

None of those fields pay a whole lot of money, so taking on huge debt for undergrad…which will grow like CRAZY while you’re in grad school.

$130k of undergrad will grow a LOT by the time you’re out of grad school. Someone here can do the math and figure out how large that debt will grow after 4 years of undergrad PLUS 5 years of grad school.

We see this sort of problem here all the time…kids thinking that they need to borrow big for undergrad when they still have many grad/med school years ahead of them. The debt that they end up with becomes unsupportable.

Apply to Rutgers, TCNJ, and a few others that may not require crazy loans because of merit scholarships, such as Northeastern, Case Western, URochester.
Attend JHU for grad school, when that will matter way more.