Rule of thumb: over half of all college tuition is subsidized or reduced. Don't let the sticker price scare you off. Here's Yale in 2012, and it's gotten better since: That's one of those things - if you aren't raised in the system, you don't understand the system. We had Son of Zorn three years ago. Still proud of it. Smosh retained the rights which prohibited us from selling it to Cartoon Network. Didn't know at the time that I had done more in-depth audio work than, say, Dragonball Z.The average net price for college paid by Yale families receiving aid is down 8% since 2008, from $17,263 to $15,857. Fewer Yale students are borrowing, only 22% of graduates in 2011 compared to 43% in 2002, and students who borrow now graduate, on average, with just $9,000 in debt, well below the national average of $25,000. With only one-fifth of students borrowing at all, and with those choosing to borrow graduating with relatively modest loans, students do not have to allow loan concerns to limit their career choices after college. The graduation rate remains very high — 97% of Yale students graduate within six years.