<p>Go for the offer in UChicago and just start your career in debt. To throw away a near-perfect education because of 60K is like mortgaging your future. Just go for it, and in the long run you’ll be earning more money than if you had attended anywhere else.
Also, that way you learn how rubbish it is to be living in debt, and you’ll be more careful with money the rest of your life ;)</p>