<p>@Teaspoons: If a person cannot afford a school, he should not be there, period. It is, by definition, not the school for him. Just like people should not be in homes they cannot afford. This is part of the problem with our society. Every student/parent should pay the same freight for the same education barring merit-based scholarships. Wealthy people already pay more taxes than others; they should not pay more for school. I have been poor, and I have been affluent. I resent paying more for my child’s education than somebody else who may not work as hard as I do, especially after putting myself through school years ago when college much more affordable and there wasn’t all this cost shifting. Nobody “deserves” anything but to be treated equally. College costs would be lower for EVERYONE if it was not for the defacto price discrimination that is making college unaffordable for those formerly known as the middle class.</p>