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<p>Your proposal is probably of small magnitude in terms of overall savings for UC and CSU, but its major impact would likely be on the small number of non-wealthy but brilliant students who would benefit most from the possibility of having more choices of state universities beyond their local ones, which may have an adequate-for-most-but-lacking-for-the-brilliant degree program in their major (the non-brilliant would likely go to their local CSU as they do now, while the wealthy would not be affected in their choice of schools).</p>
<p>It is not obvious that most people would consider these students to be the least deserving students who should get less financial aid. Indeed, the purpose of the state universities is to provide the opportunity for the better students from non-wealthy families to get post-secondary education which will help them be more valuable contributors to the state economy in the future, benefiting all state residents; your proposal would limit the most brilliant such students to the detriment of the state economy in the future.</p>