Interestingly, most of the Ivy League has incredibly generous financial aid packages, enough that most middle-income people pay <i>zero</i>.  When I went to college, having had 2&#x2F;3 of my tuition paid for by the college, I remarked that higher ed in elite universities was basically socialism subsidized by a very capitalist minority that was willing to pay any amount.  Not a bad system, but it unfortunately only works at those institutions where rich people will enroll their kids at virtually any price.