Elite college education can also be for the kids of parents with modest means or almost no means.
What is abhorrent to me is that my state U is unaffordable to middle class families who live in my state, pay taxes to my state, and assumed that their kids would be able to go there without bankrupting the family. That’s abhorrent.
Princeton is affordable for the wealthy- ok. Princeton is also affordable for kids whose parents can’t afford their state U- that’s great.
But shame on State U’s for participating in the arms race for fancy dorms, incredible athletic facilities, gourmet food halls, etc. but pricing themselves out of reach.
That’s abhorrent.