And the poor sometimes get grants and go to college. but it is the middle class that struggles. for a lifetime. sometimes. to send their kids to school. Some students decide to go a university in another State. They are penalized by that State and required to pay outofState tuition since they are from out of State. Citizens from other countries apply for Visas to come to the United States to go to public universities. If they are accepted. they pay outofState tuition since they are from out of State. These are citizens who come here legally and then go back to their native lands.