Does anyone else find the author rather aloof from financial reality in this article? > the education I received was well worth the $16,000 a year my parents p

Does anyone else find the author rather aloof from financial reality in this article? > the education I received was well worth the $16,000 a year my parents paid, after scholarships. > The students all now say they’re confident in Minerva—although of course they can leave whenever they like, with little lost but time. The writer embodies the all-American liberally-educated Ivy League "coastal-elite" stereotype (writing in the Atlantic, after all), so I shouldn't be surprised at their reflexive apprehension towards an attempt to undermine the old institutions which are so tied up with that identity.