a lot of your TAs didn’t have that debt. They had trust funds.

I was in grad school and one of the reason I left is I learned I was basically the only person in my program who was paying my own way… and that most of my professors… also came from money. And they were all shocked that I actually lived entirely on my stipend.

And you can find stats on this. The majority of med students, for example, come from upper income homes. Just like the majority of students at elite schools, also do, and the majority of admits to med schools come from better schools…