@prezbucky - Brandeis doesn’t seem to have that many more STEM majors than Wesleyan, Middlebury, and Bowdoin. According to its common data sets, Biology/Life Sciences pops up as a popular area of concentration, but, that is in stark contrast to single digit percentages in Math, Physics, Chemistry and Computer Science. It’s hard to tell definitively, but, I’m betting a lot of those bio majors are premeds.
BTW, I think $50,000 is way too much debt to have hanging over the OP once they graduate. The family should make clear now how much of that will be the parent’s responsibility and how much the OP will be on the hook for.