<p>"May I humbly suggest that if the Ivy League and other elite schools really want to recruit the best of the best, they should fork over better financial aid.</p>
<p>A lot of the country's best students are going to state universities because they know that their professional goals will require additional education beyond the bachelor's degree, and they don't want to start graduate school with many tens of thousands of dollars worth of debt from their undergraduate years."</p>
<p>The Ivies have absolutely no problem filling up their classes with excellent students. Of course, they'll lose some students to lower priced colleges and ones giving great merit aid. However, even with that, the Ivies yields are still some of the country's highest. Indeed, Harvard's yield regularly is the country's highest.</p>