At Chicago Unifieds this year, I had the opportunity to sit in the information session for Texas State and University of Michigan back to back. The same question came up in both rooms - what do you do to help students minimize debt at your university? Texas State guarantees in state tuition to all accepted students and committed to working with students to help ensure that they graduate with little to no debt. Michigan’s response was “well, college is expensive” and then the presenters talked about using their first soap opera gig or Broadway show to pay off loans while eating $1 pizza for a year. I get it - Michigan is Michigan and I know that they are a top school and most of our kids (mine included) would be thrilled to get accepted into their program. I think that the comments just struck me as a little cavalier. I guess if you are good enough to get into Michigan, you have a decent chance of landing that soap opera or Broadway gig right out of school, but there are no guarantees! Ok, mini rant over. Thanks for sharing this article!