NYTimes: Cost May Keep Students From First-Choice Colleges

<p>"So the headline should have been: Only FIVE percent of freshman do not attend their first choice school due to money "</p>

<p>Yes! That is amazing and wonderful. Even more amazing and wonderful is the fact that virtually any American graduating high school senior who wishes to go to college can find a way to do so. There are many countries where only the elite can go to college or only students with the very top grades and scores can do so. That's not the case in the U.S., and that's something to celebrate, not whine about.</p>