You and the other 5,000 good students are all trying to get the same $30k. It doesn't work out very egalitarian in the USA. You can be pushed hard, but if you c

You and the other 5,000 good students are all trying to get the same $30k. It doesn't work out very egalitarian in the USA. You can be pushed hard, but if you can barely afford tuition, you can't live on campus, so you pay for parking, which you probably can't afford, or take the bus which takes about 2 hours to get across town because of large gaps in the schedules because the ridership doesn't allow for more. And then maybe you can make ends meet to be able to eat. France sounds like a dream in comparison.