&gt;It just doesn&#x27;t jive with the high-minded ideals that university&#x27;s tout publicly.<p>Good private schools have excellent financial aid for students whose parents can&#x27;t pay, and the high-minded ideals were brought to &quot;the people&quot; in the form of heavily taxpayer-subsidized state universities for much of the twentieth century. These institutions aren&#x27;t going to abandon their values, though the state subsidies that made it possible without debt are long-gone.