 When you showed up at Yale, you were counting on spending a couple hundred thousand dollars for your law degree. What happened? Well, I got a letter from the financial aid office and they said that I was getting tens of thousands of dollars in need-based aid, which just means grants for the kids who aren't especially wealthy. And I received the maximum amount in need-based aid because I was one of the poor kids in my class. And as I told my aunt, it was the first time that being poor had ever paid so well.