<p>I don’t think schools outright “lie” very often but they can be ambiguous or vague or “subversive”.</p>
<p>For example, USC claims to meet 100% of need, however I have seen many cases and I do remember a thread being posted about it and how comparatively little financial aid USC gives. While of course they have their own formula for determining need, from what I have seen on CC, their formula must be pretty darn bad because people aren’t having any good proportion of their need met there.</p>