Another way of looking at it is: universities should be priced such that middle class parents can pay for their kids to go. People who can’t afford to go should

Another way of looking at it is: universities should be priced such that middle class parents can pay for their kids to go. People who can’t afford to go should not be the default case. They should be the exception, handled through exceptional means like a combination of need and talent based scholarships. We’ve created a problem where all of the control flow is via exceptions. We want our administrative systems to be lean and efficient, C not Python.