“Bad example! I would not go to Berkeley over Yale.”
Depends on the price. Plenty of parents would pick full pay Berkeley in-state ($25k) over full pay Yale ($65k). Which is sort of the whole point, right?
The CA math whiz (who is smart enough to get into Yale) isn’t offered a $25k seat at UCB. Because UCB wants to sell that seat to an OOS-er that will pay $55k.