<p>@Beliavsky </p>
<p>I don’t get the angst and ire. Institutions are free to charge what the believe is the “market value” of their product and you as the consumer are free to decline.</p>
<p>This isn’t about an issue of fairness, or that you’ll be on the hook for more tuition in college. It is that you are making a choice to send children to private school rather than public, and to a highly competitive college/university rather than the local community college where you’ll get in-state tuition breaks. It is that you can’t wrap your mind around the fact that some people are wealthy due to hard work, others due to luck or inheritance. Either way - they control the vast majority of the world’s wealth and assets. Somehow I don’t think they’re getting shafted in this bargain. After tuition, I suspect there is significantly more disposable income left for spending, than most middle and lower class families paying a reduced amount. </p>
<p>The bottom line is: no matter what choices you make, you’re still free to take what is offered or walk away. With most schools turning down the vast majority of applicants - I suspect the absence of a few wealthy kids whose parents object to the cost will have little impact on the school’s success or those of the students they do admit.</p>