re: Scales tipped against college?

I have a journalism degree from Baylor where tuition was $42K a year roughly while I was in school.

My family isn't rich or anything but certainly aren't poor. I was good in high school and made a 27 on my ACT. Baylor gave me a pretty large scholarship and just about every single person I knew in college also was on some kind of scholarship.

I graduated with $23K in student loans. Compared to many, that isn't bad at all. Much less than what I make a year covering sports.

Private schools may cost more, but they are also much more willing to give scholarship money to students compared to public schools. I wanted to go to LSU originally, but the out of state made LSU a much more expensive option compared to Baylor.