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[throwaway2037]

    > the ideal is that college should be very expensive for rich people and cheap, free, or at least more affordable, for less wealthy people.

This is an excellent summary of the Harvard University tuition strategy for the last 20 years.

[insane_dreamer → throwaway2037]

But this strategy only applies to the wealthy universities, like Harvard, which are extremely difficult to get into -- and that is by design (Harvard could expand its student body), since what Harvard is selling these days, above all, is exclusivity.