The reply to this is always "but only rich people pay list price, everyone else gets 'financial aid'". (Really, it's just price discrimination, since the school

The reply to this is always "but only rich people pay list price, everyone else gets 'financial aid'". (Really, it's just price discrimination, since the school is 'aiding' themselves.) And my reply to that is, "the school has zero obligation to give you anything; you can attend for three years, and then as a senior, have your 'aid' canceled just because the school feels like it." My school kept trying to cancel my 'aid', midway through my degree, because of rounding errors in my parents' tax returns (which I had no control over).