[dnautics]

why is 'leaving it to the market' immoral? If you think the poor should be granted preferential financial treatment, then you should reach into your own pocket and help pay for them. Or help scholarship funds raise money. Or at least pressure your alma mater to set aside some funds for the economically underprivileged. If you don't do any of the above, then you don't really believe in it, do you?

It's also kind of insulting for you to assume 'the poor are the ones who won't be able to pay back'. In my experience (and it's possible that I had a unique college experience) it was the students who came from tougher backgrounds that buckled down, didn't get stupid degrees, or even if they did, managed to pull decent, well-paying jobs out of college, because they used their education, and it was the upper class students that were loafers or chose their degrees in a silly fashion, so in a way, the good education of the less privileged was subsidized by the poor choices of the rich.

[dnautics]

should clarify, my 'unique college experience' was that I went to a fairly expensive private research university in the US; I strongly suspect that the waste of time in college cuts across socioeconomic lines at many big box state schools.