<p>^agree with you. It does seem that 50-60K+ for tuition is atrocious but that is a different story. I do believe middle class (and yes, in CA -150K -200K is middle class especially in the bay area and high cost of living). Also jobs are not steady nowadays. So I do believe financial aid is ruthless - either show you are making below 60K or be an international student (where your exchange rate puts in those standards…) or earn over 300K so that you can pay the $70K annually out of pocket. With colleges that have HUGE endowments, there is no need to have tuition costing over 50K…!!! And yes, we fall in that middle-class category…where we always sent our kids to public schools but now won’t be eligible for ANY aid due to that ‘grey area’ of income.</p>