<p>OP is right, you can tell he/she gets it. When I joined in ‘04, CC was almost exclusively rich, elitist, and skewed to both coasts, mostly East/Ivy. Not no mo’. ‘Value’ colleges, which had gotten short shrift for many years on CC, are now in vogue out of financial necessity. Look for that trend to continue.</p>
<p>The Financial Aid threads this year have been almost morbidly fascinating. I can almost see the posters with the light bulbs over their heads that have just lit up, realizing that they actually have to come up with $35 or $40 grand per year to go to college, even though their Johnny has a 3.9 and a 32 and everybody had told him he’d get a full ride. Our next door neighbors have two D’s in high school & I want to shake them & say ‘watch out, something wicked this way comes!’ :)</p>