Can a meets-full-need college do a FA bait-and switch?

There isn’t any mention of schools that very specifically give more aid to freshmen, like a year or two of housing or book money allowances. There are also schools that charge more for jr/sr status.

My daughter’s school charged more for freshman meal plans (yes, because we all know freshmen eat more than upperclassmen!) so if the school was giving a full ride, with room and board, that amount would have been $1000 less for upperclassmen. She also got less in her Bright Future award for senior year because she’d used up her credits. She only got 120 credits paid for by BF and she need 131 to graduate, so by spring of senior year I think she only had 3-4 credits left.