@nynyparent I agree with you generally - my D has numerous very close friends at her boarding school attending on a full ride, we bring some of them to our home on breaks and holidays. We pay the full 43k / year. The other students’ FA comes out of the endowment. But the Ivy gap - 65K vs. zero for a large %-age of students - is just too big. We’re just not into that. BTW, she was also offered admittance to a top flagship school, but she read that the in-state tuition is 8k and OOS 33k and, on top of that, the school uses the higher payers’ tuition to pay for their FA. It explicitly says so in the literature. She flat-out refuses to consider paying it. Like I said, some of this falls into the heading of “taking a soaking”.