Low-income students told by Princeton University to attend $52,000-a-year prep school.

Listen up, poor kids: This is as close as you'll get to Princeton probably.

Always having their fingers on the pulse of how the other half lives, Princeton University counselors have advised students--including those of low-income and financially strapped backgrounds--to attend Lawrenceville Prep, The Peddie School of New Jersey, and other prep schools to learn the "academic rigors" of the Ivy League staple before applying again (with no guarantee of admittance!). The guess is that Princeton assumes these students can also learn the economic rigors of being homeless soon, too.

Lawrenceville charges a $52,000-a-year tuition, all with little financial aid. BUT Lawrenceville boasts a nine hole golf course and a $380 million endowment, so that seems fair.

Princeton spokesperson Daniel Day told The Tab, "We recognize that some students might benefit from a post-graduate year of study after their high school graduation to help them strengthen their academic foundation." And that foundation of knowledge is seemingly built on wondering how you'll feed yourself while broke.

"Ultimately it is up to the student whether or not to complete a post-graduate year at any school," he added.

Ultimately the average and lower income family recognize that some schools, like Princeton, might benefit from learning that not everyone lives in a bubble of Xanadu-like wealth.