I agree there! Our local UC schools, including Berkeley, are about $30,000-35,000 a year with room, board, tuition, etc. That isn't that cheap! Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Northwestern (my alma mater) are around $50,000 or more a year.
My friend's son is going to Medical College of new York, a good (not great, but definitely respectable) private medical school and it is $70,000 a year! How can anyone really afford that???