I would love to know what claim the author is trying to make with this. The $35k-100k bracket and $100k+ bracket are almost exactly the same in every area other than parent income/savings. Essentially, the way the "rich" pay for college is only "different" in that [newsflash!] they purchase a more expensive product and they pay more for it. Um...was this supposed to be surprising? Informative? They do that with everything else, too.