@Penn95 I’m not convinced that is true. You can still get substantial financial aid with incomes up to $140K. That puts you in the top couple percent in the country. And most FA is financed from endowment income.
The “middle class” seems to be a very elastic term. An annual income of $140-150K (indeed $100K) doesn’t make you middle class when you consider what the average income in the country is. And then there is equity etc.