> Are you saying none of these problems could be solved by putting a team of professionals on it? For example, maybe six PR and marketing people working full ti

> Are you saying none of these problems could be solved by putting a team of professionals on it? For example, maybe six PR and marketing people working full time for four years couldn't make a dent in #1? The elite colleges say anyone who gets in will be given affordable tuition, but they must have long known that their applicants come from specific socio-economic groups and therefore they are missing top applicants outside those groups. Why haven't they done much about it? (I can only guess.) Note that it must weaken their student body to miss so many top students. Issue #1 has received a bunch of broader public attention recently (NY Times articles, etc.), so perhaps that has energized a response; I don't follow it closely enough to know. I also know that solving #1 without solving #2 results only in a lot of dropouts. I happen to know someone at a good university that mentors a group of students from other backgrounds; the university has developed a detailed program to try to keep them in school. Finally, I have read that Amherst, many years ago, decided that they would actually make an effort to admit a socio-economically (or maybe just economically; I don't know the details) diverse student body, with great success. That is true public service by an institution.