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<p>No surprise there. At the elite schools, it would be simplistic to think otherwise. </p>
<p>True, an undergrad student at Dartmouth generally does not avail him/herself of all the research and ancillary activities that the university conducts and is on the hook for funding. However that student benefits from having access to those vast resources and from being associated with an institution which derives prestige from its research and ancillary activities. By your narrow thinking, a chem-E major could also argue that the school was spending large amounts of money on things unrelated to educating him/herself-- things like dance and anthropology classes.</p>
<p>If your expectation is that every dollar a school spends should be on something directly related to educating you, then the no-frills community college model would be more suited to you.</p>