<p>Endowment is a different argument. Your figure that for every $100 spent by the university only $7 comes from the state is false. Your link shows that it’s 24%. </p>
<p>My argument back for financial aid is about why it if it were taken into account, it would increase the percentage, not decrease. </p>
<p>My argument about the Grad student discount is a combo of it can’t be taken into account because I don’t have numbers on it, and that any issue is at the fault of the university itself and not of the state’s influence. I realize that it should optimally be reflected in the number, but it can’t be and all its influence would show is that the university is admitting in a way that it against its own interests and is not influenced by the state.</p>
<p>My argument about the spring/summer terms is that there’s nothing they can reasonably do about it. Again, I realize that optimally it should be included in the number, but it can’t be, and even if it could, it wouldn’t be in the college’s interest to change that number.</p>
<p>Altogether, I’m really not trying to argue my number as much as I am defending the status quo, and using my number to illustrate that the status quo is reasonable.</p>