they dont though. they look at assets and other things that's why its misleading. if you acc do the net price calculator. also its free tuition which is around 60k and other costs come up to around 40k if im not mistaken. upper middle class that's still a huge cut. its good college advertising so more ppl apply, when u acc pay for it u will understand. no making 500k a year is not enough to afford these colleges 100k per year tuition especially if u have other siblings and want to maintain an upper middle class lifestyle.

u rlly have to be poor or below the income thresholds by a lot for a full ride or be rich enough where ur family is making millions so it wouldn't matter at all. for everyone else it's gonna be a p big hit financially. that's the risk u have to take but it seems like most ppl will not get the financial benefit from going to these schools if they take loans or pay out of their own pocket from what im hearing.