It depends from country to country. Germany pulls it off by tracking most students out of the university path at a young age. Instead, those students are basica

It depends from country to country. Germany pulls it off by tracking most students out of the university path at a young age. Instead, those students are basically forced into vocational schools. The US public would never accept that. You still need to be upper-middle-class to rich to go to university in Germany. The difference is that you don't have to pay for it.