<p>Well, in defense of Stanford here…
Free tuition for 60-100k is reasonable, this only leaves a 12-15k gap to fill if you don’t splurge on everything. Attending a good public school out of state will cost more than this even if you have a good merit package. Berkeley = 34K out of state with room and board.
Please also remember even with increased donations this year Stanford’s overall endowment is 1/2 that of Harvard’s, with about the same number of students who need aid. </p>
<p>And honestly, people making 100K-200K don’t really need the aid.</p>