<p>I don’t think being upper middle class excludes the students from opportunity, though. A student with a family in the upper 100s range isn’t spending day in and day out worry about where their next meal is coming from, to be extreme. Those students still have more (or, well, different and more college oriented) opportunities and can at least pay for schools like Binghamton or Geneseo - whereas a lower income student has little to no opportunity at all without serious financial aid and/or loans.</p>