Segregated colleges

[enlightenment]

29. True, these things are expensive.

The university experience has become increasingly expensive and increasingly out of reach for many.

It is unfortunate - and wrong (imo) - but acknowledging that doesn't change it and people are paying the price. For example; My youngest niece is a very bright young lady and a good scholar, but not inclined to sports or the 24/7 round of activities that earn the coveted "high achiever" status. As such, she was not able to collect the scholarships, etc, that might have helped her through school. She wants to be a forensic pathologist - which means a PhD.
She's still trying, of course, but her "dream" of attending a university has been curtailed by reality. Her parents are not in a position to help her much, so she has accepted that she needs to find alternative routes - community college, etc, to put her in a position to afford her BA without accumulating too much debt - she'll be doing that for grad school, almost certainly.

It's not what her 18 year old brain wants. She wanted to go off to school with her friends and live in the dorm and have the "experience". I truly wish that were possible (though the experience isn't all it's cracked up to be . . .), but it's not. She will reach her goal, of that I'm sure, because she is determined and motivated to do that. The route is simply going to be rockier and more circuitous than she anticipated.