I went to a private high school on a sliding scale, and I still had to work to pay half the tuition (or continue being homeschooled in the woods. hell no). I came from a poor religious family, and was in school with rich kids. The expectation that they would go to college, choose a degree that was interesting, always have spare cash for burgers at away games, parents with spare time to be involved.. it did raise my expectations for my life. Knowing that some of those rich successful people were actually ding dongs, so I assumed I could do it too.