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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 3959055, member: 153"] The cost of attendance numbers are not money paid to the university. It's cost-of-living. Mandated by federal law. Also, in terms of aid, they count student loans in that. It's money you presumably have to pay back. I'm assuming any parent would look at it as a payout TO the university. The university after all gets that student loan money. But what isn't accounted for here is the expenditure per student. You have to figure out what they spend per student because it is far and above the tuition. So you can't count the differential between out-of-staters and state residents when the school subsidizes the expenses of state residents. You have to count the difference between out of state tuition and expenditures per student to see the true savings to the university. Also realize that Room & Board + Insurance + fees is the same for out of staters as it is for in-staters, so the difference is really only tuition. A $19,000 difference between out-of-staters and in-staters, but the expenditure per student is much closer to the out-of-state charge of $37k than it is to in-state tuition. Which means when it comes to net revs versus net expenditures, the savings from out-of-state full scholarship athletes to in-state payers is not that great at all. By the way, if that $18m per year figure is correct, UConn spends $25k per student scholarship athlete. [/QUOTE]