<p>Who the Hell pays $200,000 to go to college? I’d love to see statistics about who attends these $50k/year colleges? I have always suspected that they were in the minority, and that the majority of college graduates attend community colleges and in-state publics (or a mixture of the two) for less than half of the cost. These articles always focus on the same type of person (upper-middle class, usually white, usually urban) as if they represented the vast majority of Americans. </p>
<p>On the first page alone, the guy in question attended Cornell and was apparently full-pay until his parents lost money. What percentage of Americans attend or could have attended an Ivy League college and paid full price? You might as well publish an article written from the perspective of Paris Hilton, for all the relevance this has to the majority of people who could read it.</p>