In the past five years, Ivy League schools have massively increased financial aid to make tuition negligible for students of median (or lower) income families i

In the past five years, Ivy League schools have massively increased financial aid to make tuition negligible for students of median (or lower) income families in the USA. There will always be a "legacy super class" contingent, and much has been written about why this is good overall (1. it helps the school stay funded; 2. it is good for morale to have the bottom quartile of GPA be filled with people who are happy there), but elite schools are not exclusivly upper-class in this century. Also, it is worth noting that Ivy League schools go to extreme efforts to democratize and "socialismise" their student bodies, through dormitory and dining and academic arrangements, much more deeply and intentionally than public schools.