Top schools generally are competitive or cheaper for low income families. I think this is meant to be surprising because people from lesser known instituons ar

Top schools generally are competitive or cheaper for low income families. I think this is meant to be surprising because people from lesser known instituons are more likely to fall victim to institutional elitism - Sand Hill Road VCs are generally not going to take a University of Oklahoma student as seriously as a Stanford student (at least that's my perception, may not be accurate).