<p>The fact of the matter is that college is rarely one of the things that has to be provided, so few parents have to pay penny one toward higher education. A lot of the time, (enough of the time to make this an active industry), they do, many of them borrowing presipitously to do so. This wilingness to provide for one’s children has been terribly exploited by the college industry, and is what has been keeping it running as it has been. The day an 18 year’s financial are the ones used to determine what financial aid needs to be given, would break the backs of a number of schools.</p>