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How about: 4.) Cutting their massive bureaucracies so far back that the actual students once again outnumber the administrators?

> Harvard and Princeton charge tuition at all!

Wealth redistribution / market segmentation.

To be fair to Harvard and Princeton, neither actually costs very much to attend if you get accepted but come from a lower/middle income family. The hard part is getting accepted.

Princeton has quite large aid packages outlined here: https://admission.princeton.edu/cost-aid

Harvard has different but also quite amazingly large aid packages for lower and middle-income students: https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/why-harvard/affordabi...