Why should meritorious students get preferential treatment???? Which era did you time transport from Charles-the feudal age? And why is serving the country a precondition to an education. And what is up with the personal attack Shakespeare. I am not familiar with Dr. Patil's qualifications but I can venture a safe guess as to yours. You start your letters with capital words and end your sentences with full stops. They teach that in kindergarten. Your post has paragraphs so you definitely passed class 1. But you do not have well composed trains of thoughts so you definitely did not make it past that. Your presumptuous ass assumed that the 180K figure was annualized so you obviously dont have a very well oriented research mind--that rules out a graduate degree. Your lack of logic and flow in your post is stunning(case in point:you go from addressing high fee structures to questioning why brilliant students should go to college to proposing that cost should be a function of quality--all in one paragraph)-so that rules out a serious undergradute education. So either you had an epileptic seizure at the keyboard or you are a glorious retard. Comment about my education now will you sherlock?