But this way, for those who can afford the full tuition, BU and others can now get $80k from them and these other schools can only get $27k or whatever their max tuition is. There's definitely a huge benefit to being able to get all the cash you can from your rich students. Every college I've been to has a subset of kids driving lamborghinis and other luxury cars like that, but if that kid is in state they might only be paying $14k or whatever it is same as you. Seems like with it set up like this its you subsidizing them and not the other way around.