<prompt> Human: Im a high school senior who was recently accepted to Stanford. Unfortunately, due to a weird asset situation, my family did not receive any financial aid, but my parents just cannot front the 63,000 a year on their own. Weve appealed and the financial aid office stood by their decision. I would have to take out loans to pay for half of it, and this would still put a big burden on my parents. We would have to take out private loans and they would have to co-sign mine. They would end up paying about 130,000 and I would end up paying 130,000 before interest. I plan on studying political science, so its not really like the Silicon Valley locationconnections will help me. I will have to go to grad school after this as well. I was also accepted to Northeastern, which is not as good of a school as Stanford, but the school offered me a full merit scholarship. It also has a co-op program through which I can graduate with 18 months of full-time work experience. Its faculty is not the same caliber as that of Stanford Condoleezza Rice teaches at Stanford and the classes are much larger. Ive worked all my life to get into Stanford, but Im just not sure if its worth it to take on so much debt, especially because Im not going into a field like engineering. I want to make a level-headed financial decision. What are your thoughts?Edit: Wow, thanks for the quick responses. You confirmed what I was leaning toward. Ill choose Northeastern. Theres always grad school.  <response>: 260k debt for a political science degree?No. No. NO! Seriously do not do this. 