Yeah; that calculator comes to about $60,000 for her. Ouch.

That makes her family extremely well off. (Unless maybe you're in an area with super high living expenses and Harvard doesn't adjust for that?)

Very strange; a product being sold for a price that depends upon how much money you have. Isn't that called scalping?

If you want to look at education as a privilege earned by having wealthy parents, maybe.

If $60k feels like a burden to you, imagine what it would be to the child of a single parent making $35k. If everyone were charged the same price, only the very rich could afford it.