Price tag for the American dream: $130K a year

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100. well there are other options

my own major of astrophysics was fairly rare. However, there are a couple of options besides paying ridiculous out of state tuition.

One, most of your courses for the first two years can be taken anywhere, even at an in-state school which does not offer your degree. You still need the first year of calculus, and probably an introductory physics course. Engineering courses like statics and dynamics (if they are still offering those kind of courses) are probably available at some in-state schools as well.

So there you've saved two years of out of state tuition. I played the same game even in college. For some reason, tuition was lower for people in the college of liberal arts than it was for students in the institute of technology. Yet, as a CLA student I could take the same classes for my astrophysics major. So I was officially a CLAer for my first two years.

Or, secondly, move to the other state, get a residence and a job. Live there for a year and establish residence so you can pay instate tuition. It will not kill you to graduate at age 23 instead of 22.

You've made the American Dream impossible or difficult to attain by greatly inflating the cost, and I don't think that is reaonable.