Schools best at providing access to poor and middle-income families.

This is true, but it’s changing pretty fast. This year for the first time on the University of Michigan pages on CC there were lots of posts from happy OOS admits reporting that they were surprised and pleased with the generosity of Michigan’s need-based FA for OOS students. Not everyone yet, but the university’s stated goal is to be able to meet full need for all students, including OOS, and they’re about 3/4 of the way toward their $4 billion capital campaign goal with 3 years still remaining in the campaign period. Successful completion of that campaign will give them ample resources to meet the OOS FA goal.