This is a world that is a borderline dystopia, but you even with your humble background have a clean record, making you eligible for higher education and many careers that are above menial labor. This university is a last chance for many and an only chance for some. Many of the students here were entitled until they realized this was their last chance to avoid a life of slavery or worse. As you walk down the hall to your meeting with admin to turn in your admissions paperwork you do see several state owned slaves rented by the school that are cleaning and maintaining the property, and even one poor slave that is being carted down to the biology lab as a dissection specimen, although to be fair he was a fairly prolific rapist.
Miss Crossing:
"I see your student application in front of me, but tell me, what brings you to this school, what is your background. What are your life goals."