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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why would anyone think that the poor in America (300 million of them) are entitled to an Ivy education? The middle class can not afford 60K + yearly (240K+) There are plenty of colleges around. Why the Ivys have to take the poor? BTW, they do accept scholarship students. Why the outrage?[/quote]

So, there are 300 million poor in the United States? That is the entire population of the country. I do not see outrage, but I see problems for these institutions if they become increasingly insulated and isolated from the larger society.  Are they to be stepping stones in upward mobility or the bastions of a narrow socio-economic privilege? [/quote]

Just for the sake of argument -- you state (as have several others) that there will be "problems for these institutions if they become increasingly insulated and isolated from the larger society."  What problems, exactly?  Haven't these institutions ALWAYS been "insulated and isolated?"  Haven't they always been "bastions of a narrow socio-economic privilege?"  Isn't that why all the DCUM parents are striving to get their special little flowers into an Ivy?  (Certainly not because they're bastions of equality, diversity and downward mobility.)

As a former middle class college student myself (truly middle class, not DCUM "middle class") I agree with the theory that most folks in that socio-economic position don't qualify for enough aid to make themselves whole as compared to a good state university, and [b]many don't see the value in going into massive amount of debt for the sole purpose of covering their degree with a gloss of Ivy. [/b] This is a rational choice.  [/quote]

To have a degree from a select few institutions is valuable. You cannot hope to be SCOTUS or POTUS without it. Of course, that does not meant that you will not go onto become very successful. But you cannot deny that it is a stepping stone to opportunities that are forever shut to those who do not possess it. [/quote]

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