it's the same for med school... got accepted "up north" but went to UT Southwestern in Dallas... had great MCAT's (the default answer was "B" that year)..plus a great tan... so I got a full ride. Dallas was great, Boston was a cold, gloomy rather dilapidated city.
The guys I know that went to Ivy League schools had incredible debt coming out, I ended up with $15,000 total debt when I graduated. The other thing is that they really didn't do as much clinically as we did in Parkland. In other words, I'm glad I stayed in Texas. I had to go up north for residency... and it permanently cured me of ever wanting to live in the Northeast....or north of the Red River.
I got accepted to GW and SUNY med school. GW was then $13K/py, I got an exam scholarship to SUNY and paid $800/py which I made easily as a part-time letter carrier.
Debt = ZERO.