This is a very important point.
This has come up in other threads, but since @mccubbinsjl is posting for the first time on this thread it might be worth repeating. My older daughter just got her DVM earlier this year. She has consistently reported that most of the students in her DVM program were taking on way too much debt.
Being a DVM is a great career if you want to work hard, get to work with animals, deal with a lot of animals that you can help and quite a few that end up dying, and you don’t mind being bit and stepped on occasionally and pooped on frequently, and you are strongly drawn to it, and you have some way to get there without taking on debt.
Being a DVM does not pay well enough to make it reasonable to pay off loans representing anything even close to the cost of getting a DVM.
Generally speaking you should make sure that you have means to pay for four years of university and four more years of a DVM program before you start paying for high school.