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<li><p>Tell that to a considerable number of my daughters’ friends who had to drop out of college for financial reasons. Our income is less than $60K and my daughters were not offered generous aid at most schools to which they applied: one ended up nearly full-pay at a state school and another did receive a generous scholarship at ONE of the privates to which she applied.</p></li>
<li><p>Schools cannot afford to give scholarships to every student. There are buildings and properties to maintain; salaries to pay; research to fund; etc.</p></li>
<li><p>see above.</p></li>
<li><p>families are expected to pay what they can afford to pay (the EFC). How they pay it is up to them - loans, rob ab bank, use savings, etc.</p></li>
<li><p>People can and do get good jobs and into good graduate schools from lower ranked colleges. And you are pretty much correct that the graduate school can be significant in job searches - except for medical schools, as all must meet certain expectations.</p></li>
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