<p>LACalum,</p>
<p>The dirty secret is that these schools control their FA burden within their need blind policies by tweaking their admissions criteria. For example, want fewer lower income males? Discount the value of football as an EC. Want more full pay? Give more EC credit to things that cost money like tennis or golf or music other than band. </p>
<p>I could go on but you get the idea.</p>