This article in the local Minneapolis/St. Paul paper almost brought tears to my eyes. I see this happening more and more:
Ashley Hall remembers clicking “yes” on the loan application and, inexplicably, laughing.
Maybe it’s because the number seemed so surreal. Or because no one else in her family had done this before. But there she was, borrowing nearly $75,000. For her first year of veterinary school at the University of Minnesota.
Even now, two years later, it’s hard for her to believe. By the time she graduates in 2016, she’ll owe more than $300,000.
Hall, a 28-year-old from Georgia, never planned it this way.
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